Gale Home

Biography Resource Center: African Americans

Frederick Douglass
Contact Us

In the United States and Canada, please
call 1-800-877-GALE
fax 1-800-414-5043
or contact your sales representative.

Outside the U.S. and Canada, find a listing of our Sales Offices and Distributors.

 

Explore the Content

Gale prides itself on a well-established reputation in the world library market as a premier provider of biographical content. When users conduct research through the Biography Resource Center: African Americans, they gain access to the biographies in almost 60 volumes of six Gale reference sources:

  • Contemporary Black Biography
  • Notable Black American Men
  • Notable Black American Scientists
  • Notable Black American Women
  • St. James Guide to Black Artists
  • Who’s Who Among African Americans

In addition to essays that provide key biographical facts and summaries of individuals' lives and careers, search results also yield:

  • Recent news briefs
  • Links to nearly 250 vetted Web sites
  • Approximately 2,000 portraits
  • More than 42,000 full-text periodical articles from nearly 300 magazines

This breadth of content makes Biography Resource Center: African Americans a valuable resource for all libraries.