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The African American National Biography Project – Biographical Sketches

The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation (AAHPF) is continuing its contributions to the African American National Biography (AANB) Database edited by Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. This landmark undertaking resulted in an eight-volume print edition containing over 4,000 individual biographies, indices, and supplementary matter. An expanded edition of the AANB continues online, with more than 1,500 entries added since 2008. The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation provided biographies on Roscoe Conkling Bruce and Dr. Frank Settle Hargrave. More than 750 of these can be found in a Revised Print Edition of the AANB, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In 2023, the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation provided the biography of Joseph Samuel Dunning, the first African American aeronautical space engineer.
The African American National Biography Project – Biographical Sketches

The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation (AAHPF) is continuing its contributions to the African American National Biography (AANB) Database edited by Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. This landmark undertaking resulted in an eight-volume print edition containing over 4,000 individual biographies, indices, and supplementary matter. An expanded edition of the AANB continues online, with more than 1,500 entries added since 2008. The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation provided biographies on Roscoe Conkling Bruce and Dr. Frank Settle Hargrave. More than 750 of these can be found in a Revised Print Edition of the AANB, published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In 2023, the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation provided the biography of Joseph Samuel Dunning, the first African American aeronautical space engineer.  In 2024, AAHPF provided the biography of Robert Wiley Coleman, Founder of Maryland Association for Colored Blind and Editor of First Colored Directory of Baltimore City. 

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