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