Biography Resource Center: African Americans

Quick Summary

This easy-to-use database offers nearly 30,000 narrative and thumbnail biographies on notable African American figures, such as Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Harriet Tubman, Usher, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, W.E.B. Du Bois and many others.

Biography Resource Center: African Americans’ content is drawn from Biography Resource Center, Gale's award-winning biographical online reference database. It was designed to meet the demand in public, school and academic libraries for biographical information on African Americans in a wide variety of areas, including the arts, business, current events, entertainment, government, history, literature, multicultural studies, politics, science and sports. In addition to essays that provide key biographical facts and summaries of individuals' lives and careers, researchers will also find:

• 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

Biography Resource Center: African Americans also offers "Spotlight On" information, which highlights noteworthy historical figures and individuals currently in the news. A brief synopsis of the person's importance - and a link to the tabbed results screen for that individual - along with the person's picture are featured on the homepage.