100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia / Molefi Kete Asante.
Record details
- ISBN: 1573929638
- ISBN: 9781573929639
- Physical Description: 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-345) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Hank Aaron 23 -- Ira Aldridge 25 -- Muhammad Ali 27 -- Richard Allen 31 -- Marian Anderson 34 -- Maya Angelou 37 -- Arthur Ashe 39 -- Crispus Attucks 41 -- James Baldwin 44 -- Benjamin Banneker 48 -- Amiri Baraka 51 -- Romare Bearden 54 -- Mary McLeod Bethune 57 -- Guion Bluford 61 -- Arna Bontemps 62 -- Edward W. Brooke 64 -- Gwendolyn Brooks 66 -- Blanche K. Bruce 69 -- Ralph Bunche 72 -- George Washington Carver 75 -- Shirley Chisholm 78 -- Kenneth B. Clark 81 -- John Henrik Clarke 84 -- John Coltrane 87 -- Bill Cosby 92 -- Alexander Crummell 94 -- Countee Cullen 97 -- Benjamin O. Davis Jr. 100 -- Martin R. Delany 103 -- Frederick Douglass 106 -- Charles Drew 111 -- W. E. B. Du Bois 114 -- Paul Laurence Dunbar 118 -- Katherine Dunham 120 -- Duke Ellington 123 -- James Forten 126 -- John Hope Franklin 128 -- Henry Highland Garnet 131 -- Marcus Garvey 134 -- Prince Hall 141 -- Fannie Lou Hamer 146 -- Lorraine Hansberry 150 -- Dorothy Height 153 -- Matthew Henson 155 -- Charles Houston 157 -- Langston Hughes 160 -- Zora Neale Hurston 165 -- Jesse Jackson 168 -- Mae Jemison 172 -- Jack Johnson 174 -- James Weldon Johnson 177 -- John H. Johnson 181 -- Percy Julian 184 -- Ernest Just 187 -- Maulana Karenga 190 -- Martin Luther King Jr. 194 -- Edmonia Lewis 201 -- Alain Locke 203 -- Joe Louis 207 -- Thurgood Marshall 210 -- Benjamin E. Mays 215 -- Elijah McCoy 217 -- Claude McKay 219 -- Oscar Micheaux 224 -- Dorie Miller 227 -- Garrett Morgan 230 -- Toni Morrison 232 -- Elijah Muhammad 235 -- Jesse Owens 238 -- Rosa Parks 242 -- Adam Clayton Powell 246 -- Colin Powell 250 -- A. Philip Randolph 255 -- Hiram Revels 259 -- Paul Robeson 261 -- Jackie Robinson 264 -- John Russwurm 268 -- Arturo Schomburg 270 -- Benjamin "Pop" Singleton 272 -- Mary Church Terrell 275 -- William Monroe Trotter 279 -- Sojourner Truth 284 -- Harriet Tubman 289 -- Kwame Ture 293 -- Henry McNeal Turner 296 -- Nat Turner 299 -- David Walker 301 -- Madame C. J. Walker 304 -- Booker T. Washington 307 -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett 309 -- Phillis Wheatley 312 -- Walter F. White 315 -- Roy Wilkins 317 -- Daniel Hale Williams 318 -- August Wilson 320 -- Oprah Winfrey 322 -- Tiger Woods 324 -- Carter G. Woodson 327 -- Richard Wright 330 -- Malcolm X 333. |
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Subject: | African Americans > Biography > Encyclopedias. African Americans > History > Encyclopedias. |
Genre: | Biographies. Encyclopedias. |
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