The African American Almanac - Thrall Databases - Databases & Virtual Reference Resources at Middletown Thrall Library

Description provided by Gale Virtual Reference Library:

The African American Almanac provides a range of historical and current information on African American history, society and culture and includes coverage of such topics as:

Africa and the Black Diaspora
Film and television
Landmarks
National organizations
Population
Religion
Science and technology
Sports

Patrons will also find chronologies, texts of important documents, legislation, speeches, biographical profiles, essays, and more than 650 photographs, illustrations, maps and statistical charts to help them with their research.

An expanded appendix of recipients of selected awards and honors and cumulative subject index make this resource easy to use.

>> Please click here to access The African American Almanac.

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This database can be accessed from any of Thrall Library's public Internet or research computers.

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This is a "Virtual Reference Library" (VRL) title. What does that mean? It means you are accessing an electronic (web-based) equivalent of the actual book as it was published in print. Thrall owns multiple VRL titles.

When you first access this title, you will see a Search box with a "within this publication" check box checked. You can either search the contents of this electronic work or browse it according to its Table of Contents by clicking the "eTable of Contents" link above the image of the book's cover near the top of the page.

You can also access the "eBook Index" to jump to indexed topics within the publication.

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