George Washington Williams: A Biography
John Hope Franklin
A biography of the life of the amateur scholar who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States: A History of the Negro Race in America (1882).
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- Duke University Press
- Year
- 1998
- ISBN-13
- 9780822321644
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- African American historyHistoriography19th century scholarship
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(1986)
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