Henry Louis Gates Jr.

About The Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American research at Harvard University. Among his many books are Colored People: A Memoir and Wonders of the African World. He won an American Book Award in 1989 for The Signifying Monkey.

Books by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy

A Civil War Story

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Illustrated by Romare Bearden / Read by Maya Angelou
A brave drummer boy marches along with Union soldiers in this powerful picture book.
The African-American Century

How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

One hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans of the twentieth century.
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