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Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present by 
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by 
The Jim Crow Encyclopedia by