TIMELINES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: 500 Years of...

TIMELINES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: 500 Years of Black Achievement by Tom Cowan & Jack Maguire (Pedigree/Roundtable: $15; 368 pp., paperback original). This important reference book offers year-by-year listings of births, deaths and accomplishments from 1492 to 1993. The brief accounts begin with Pedro Alonzo Nino and Esteban, explorers of African descent who accompanied Christopher Columbus and Cabeza de Vaca, and continue through Toni Morrison’s selection for the Nobel Prize for literature and the creation of an African American Museum as part of the Smithsonian complex. A compendium of familiar and little-known names, dates, statistics and facts, “Timelines” belongs in classrooms and libraries across the country.