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Article: Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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Last year was the year of the black woman. Terry McMillan sealed a $2.64 million paperback book deal for Waiting to Exhale; Carol Moseley Braun strode onto Capitol Hill as a senator and Mee C. Jemison became the first black woman to travel into space, And taking each event down line-by-line is historian Darlene Clark Hine, who trumpets the legacy of black female achievement with Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
In a day when Aunt Jemima still grins from the cover of a pancake box, Hine's encyclopedia is an overdue tribute. This is not to say that black female achievement has not been documented before (Jessie Carney Smith's Epic Lives: One ...