African American Heroes

Bill Mullen’s illuminating biography is essential for understanding the political, personal, and intellectual challenges W.E.B. Du Bois faced in his lifetime search for a black revolutionary praxis.

— Mary Helen Washington, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s (Columbia University Press, 2014)

Written in a vivid and accessible style, this encyclopedia is highly recommended for high school, public, and community college libraries, where it will serve students well. Recent encyclopedias of African American history are usually scholarly, pricey multivolume sets. This, on the other hand, is an inexpensive and unique effort that does equally well in libraries as it does in bookstores.

— Library Journal

This excellent reference work on the contributions of African-Americans to the history and culture of the United States provides accessible reference and biographical information on a wide range of important events and people.

— Book News