This A-Z Encyclopedia includes information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, and the ways in which these diverse African American organizations have influenced blacks in America. An important resource for every library, this Encyclopedia is both authoritative and engrossing, with entries on: African Aid Society African-Americans for Humanism Black Academy of Arts and Letters Black Women's Liberation Committee Minority Women in Science National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists National Dental Association National Medical Association Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church and many more.