Info re Melvin A. Butler needed

[Bethany Dumas]

> Just wondering, Bethany: "African-American" above is a compound
> adjective and thus must be hyphenated.  Is that book's title really
> without a hyphen?

That decision will of course be made by the editorial staff. Here's the
sigline in current use:

Editorial Staff
African American National Biography
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute . Harvard University
104 Mt. Auburn Street . Cambridge, MA 02138
ph. 617.496.0983 fax 617.496.0169
www.fas.harvard.edu/~aanb/

Bethany

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