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100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia / Molefi Kete Asante.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Biography--Encyclopedias.
- African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.
- African Americans.
- History.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- One hundred greatest African Americans
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-345).
- ISBN:
- 1573929638
- OCLC:
- 48920322
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