Great lives from history : African Americans

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bankston, Carl L. (Carl Leon), 1952- editor.

Series:

Great lives from history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography--Encyclopedias.

African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1900 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ipswich : Salem Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This expansive five-volume set offers profiles of 775 prominent African American from a wide range of fields. Most of these people have never been covered in any Great Lives set before, and more than one-half of them are contemporary figures. The set is especially strong in personages from the fields of sports and entertainment.

Contents:

Volume 1. Aaliyah; Hank Aaron; Robert S. Abbott; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Ralph David Abernathy; Faye Adams; Cannonball Adderley; Alvin Ailey; George Edward Alcorn; Ira Frederick Aldridge; Elizabeth Alexander; Muhammad Ali; Noble Drew Ali; Damon Allen; Debbie Allen; Marcus Allen; Richard Allen; Allen Allensworth; Charles Alston; Gene Ammons; Wally Amos; Eddie "Rochester" Anderson; Marian Anderson; Maya Angelou; Henry Armstrong; Lillian Hardin Armstrong; Louis Armstrong; Molefi Kete Asante; Arthur Ashe; Evelyn Ashford; Crispus Attucks; Babyface; Pearl Bailey; Dusty Baker; Ella Baker; Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Josephine Baker; James Baldwin; James Presley Ball; Toni Cade Bambara; Ernie Banks; Tyra Banks; Benjamin Banneker; Edward Mitchell Bannister; Amiri Baraka; Charles Barkley; Steven Barnes; Gerald William Barrax; Marion Barry; Richmond Barthe´; Count Basie; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Charlotta Spears Bass; Angela Bassett; Daisy Bates; Alvin Batiste; Kathleen Battle; Elgin Baylor; Bob Beamon; Andrew Jackson Beard; Romare Bearden; Louise Beavers; Tyson Beckford; Jim Beckwourth; Julius Wesley Becton, Jr.; Harry Belafonte; Cool Papa Bell; James Madison Bell; Chuck Berry; Halle Berry; Blind Tom Bethune; Mary McLeod Bethune; James Bevel; Chauncey Billups; David Harold Blackwell; Edward Blackwell; Henry Blair; Eubie Blake; Art Blakey; Bobby Blue Bland; James Bland; Jimmy Blanton; Mary J. Blige; Vida Blue; Guion Bluford; Charles F. Bolden, Jr.; Jane Matilda Bolin; Horace Mann Bond; Julian Bond; Barry Bonds; Margaret Allison Bonds; Marita Bonner; Arna Bontemps; Ralph Boston; Sister Thea Bowman; Otis Boykin; Perry Bradford; David Bradley; Ed Bradley; Tom Bradley; William Stanley Braithwaite; Carol E. Moseley Braun; Anthony Braxton; Toni Braxton; Cyril V. Briggs; Andrew Felton Brimmer; Lou Brock; Edward W. Brooke; Gwendolyn Brooks; Big Bill Broonzy; Charles Brown; Charlotte Hawkins Brown; Claude Brown; Clifford Brown; Dorothy Lavinia Brown; Elaine Brown; H. Rap Brown; James Brown; Jim Brown; Ray Brown; Ron Brown; Sterling A. Brown; Tim Brown; Tony Brown; Willie Brown; Blanche Kelso Bruce; John E. Bruce; Antonio Bryant; Kobe Bryant; Eugene Jacques Bullard; Ed Bullins; Ralph Bunche; Solomon Burke; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke; Harry T. Burleigh; Roland Burris; Nannie Helen Burroughs; LeVar Burton; George Washington Bush; Octavia E. Butler; Lee Calhoun; Cab Calloway; Godfrey Cambridge; Roy Campanella; Bebe Moore Campbell; E. Simms Campbell; Earl Campbell; Irene Cara; Francis Lewis Cardozo; Rod Carew; Mariah Carey; John Carlos; Stokely Carmichael; Harry Carney; William H. Carney; Leroy Carr; Diahann Carroll; Benny Carter; Nell Carter; Stephen L. Carter; George Washington Carver; Lorene Cary; Bernie Casey; Cedric the Entertainer; Wilt Chamberlain; James Chaney; Dave Chappelle; Ezzard Charles; Ray Charles; Suzette Charles; Barbara Chase-Riboud; Benjamin Chavis; Don Cheadle; Henry Plummer Cheatham; Chubby Checker; James E. Cheek.

Volume 2. Kenneth Chenault; Charles Waddell Chesnutt; Cyrus Chestnut; Alice Childress; Shirley Chisholm; Joseph Cinque; Kenneth Clark; Septima Poinsette Clark; John Henrik Clarke; Albert Buford Cleage, Jr.; Eldridge Cleaver; Roberto Clemente; Michelle Cliff; Lucille Clifton; George Clinton; James E. Clyburn; Alice Coachman; Johnnie Cochran; Daniel Coker; Nat King Cole; Natalie Cole; Bessie Coleman; Ornette Coleman; Wanda Coleman; Honi Coles and Cholly Atkins; Marva Collins; Patricia Hill Collins; Alice Coltrane; John Coltrane; James H. Cone; John Conyers, Jr.; Sam Cooke; J. California Cooper; Sam Cornish; Jayne Cortez; Bill Cosby; William and Ellen Craft; Kimberle´ Williams Crenshaw; Scatman Crothers; Andrae´ Crouch; Stanley Crouch; Big Boy Crudup; Alexander Crummell; Paul Cuffe; Counte´e Cullen; Dorothy Dandridge; Julie Dash; Willie Davenport; Angela Davis; Benjamin J. Davis; Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.; Ernie Davis; Henrietta Vinton Davis; Miles Davis; Ossie Davis; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Shani Davis; Viola Davis; Dominique Dawes; Darryl Dawkins; Roy DeCarava; Ruby Dee; Anita DeFrantz; Martin Robison Delany; Samuel R. Delany; Ron Dellums; Oscar DePriest; R. Nathaniel Dett; Gail Devers; Eric Dickerson; Bo Diddley; David Dinkins; Ivan Dixon; Willie Dixon; Larry Doby; Dr. Dre; Owen Dodson; Fats Domino; Thomas A. Dorsey; Aaron Douglas; Frederick Douglass; Rita Dove; Charles R. Drew; W.E.B. Du Bois; Henry Dumas; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Tim Duncan; Katherine Dunham; Oscar James Dunn; Charles S. Dutton; Mervyn Dymally; Billy Eckstine; Marian Wright Edelman; Lee Elder; Joycelyn Elders; Duke Ellington; Ralph Ellison; James A. Emanuel; Omar Epps; Julius Erving; Mike Espy; James Reese Europe; James Carmichael Evans; Lee Evans; Mari Evans; Charles Evers; Medgar Evers; Myrlie Evers-Williams; Patrick Ewing; James L. Farmer, Jr.; Louis Farrakhan; Father Divine; Marshall Faulk; Jessie Redmon Fauset; Samuel Ferguson; Stepin Fetchit; 50 Cent; Laurence Fishburne; Ella Fitzgerald; Henry Ossian Flipper; Curt Flood; William Thomas Fontaine; George Foreman; James Forman; Leon Forrest; James Forten; Amos Fortune; John R. Fox; Jamie Foxx; Redd Foxx; Aretha Franklin; John Hope Franklin; Joe Frazier; Walt Frazier; Morgan Freeman; Charles Fuller; Mary Hatwood Futrell; Ernest J. Gaines; Henry Highland Garnet; Kevin Garnett; Marcus Garvey; Arthur George Gaston; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Marvin Gaye; Addison Gayle, Jr.; Helene Doris Gayle; Althea Gibson; Bob Gibson; Josh Gibson; Dizzy Gillespie; Nikki Giovanni; Danny Glover; Savion Glover; Whoopi Goldberg; Cuba Gooding, Jr.; Dexter Gordon; Ed Gordon; Lewis Gordon; Annette Gordon-Reed; Berry Gordy, Jr.; Louis Gossett, Jr.; Meredith C. Gourdine; Evelyn Boyd Granville; Earl G. Graves, Sr.; Macy Gray; William H. Gray III; Al Green; Joe Greene; Dick Gregory; Frederick Drew Gregory; Wilton D. Gregory; Pam Grier; Ken Griffey, Jr.; Johnny Griffin; Florence Griffith-Joyner; Angelina Weld Grimke´; Charlotte L. Forten Grimké; Robert Guillaume; Bryant Gumbel; Tony Gwynn.

Volume 3. Alex Haley; Arsenio Hall; Prince Hall; Fannie Lou Hamer; Virginia Hamilton; M.C. Hammer; Lionel Hampton; Herbie Hancock; W.C. Handy; Lorraine Hansberry; Austin Hansen; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Michael S. Harper; Franco Harris; Patricia Roberts Harris; Donny Hathaway; Connie Hawkins; Bob Hayes; Elvin Hayes; Isaac Hayes; Roland Hayes; Patrick F. Healy; Dorothy Height; Sally Hemings; Rickey Henderson; Jimi Hendrix; Matthew Alexander Henson; Alexis M. Herman; Anita Hill; Lauryn Hill; Asa Grant Hilliard III; Chester Himes; Earl Hines; Gregory Hines; Milt Hinton; Mellody Hobson; Eric Holder; Billie Holiday; Evander Holyfield; John Lee Hooker; Bell Hooks; Benjamin Hooks; John Hope; Lena Horne; Charles Hamilton Houston; Whitney Houston; Dwight Howard; Jennifer Hudson; Langston Hughes; Charlayne Hunter-Gault; Zora Neale Hurston; Ice Cube; Gwen Ifill; India. Arie; Roy Innis; Allen Iverson; Bo Jackson; Janet Jackson; Jesse Jackson; Jesse Jackson, Jr.; Mahalia Jackson; Maynard Jackson; Michael Jackson; Reggie Jackson; Samuel L. Jackson; Shirley Ann Jackson; Sheila Jackson Lee; T.D. Jakes; Etta James; LeBron James; Jay-Z; Benjamin T. Jealous; Wyclef Jean; Leonard Jeffries; Mae C. Jemison; Derek Jeter; Charles S. Johnson; Dwayne Johnson; Jack Johnson; James Weldon Johnson; John H. Johnson; Joshua Johnson; Katherine G. Johnson; Magic Johnson; Michael Johnson; Rafer Johnson; Robert L. Johnson; Sargent Johnson; William H. Johnson; Absalom Jones; Bill T. Jones; Gayl Jones; James Earl Jones; Marion Jones; Quincy Jones; Sissieretta Jones; Scott Joplin; Barbara Jordan; June Jordan; Michael Jordan; Vernon Jordan; Jackie Johner-Kersee; Master Juba; Hubert Fauntleroy Julian; Percy Lavon Julian; Ernest Everett Just; Maulana Karenga; Ulysses Kay; William Melvin Kelley; Adrienne Kennedy; Alan Keyes; Alicia Keyes; Jamaica Kincaid; B.B. King; Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Eartha Kitt; Gladys Knight; Beyonce´ Knowles; Yusef Komunyakaa; L.L. Cool J; Patti LaBelle; Willie Lanier; Nella Larsen; Lewis Howard Latimer; Jacob Lawrence; Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.; James Lawson; John Lawson; Canada Lee; Spike Lee; Hughie Lee-Smith; Meadowlark Lemon; Sugar Ray Leonard; Lisa Leslie; Carl Lewis; Edmonia Lewis; John Robert Lewis; Ray Lewis; C. Eric Lincoln; Sonny Liston; Cleavon Little; Little Richard; Little Walter; Earl Lloyd; Alain Locke; Audre Lorde; Joe Louis; Joseph Lowery; Moms Mabley; Bernie Mac; Hattie McDaniel; Audra McDonald; Claude McKay; Jackie McLean; Terry McMillan; Donovan McNabb; Ronald E. McNair; Clyde McPhatter; John McWhorter; Haki R. Madhubuti; Malcolm X; Karl Malone; Vance Hunter Marchbanks; Ellis Marsalis, Jr.; Wynton Marsalis; Kerry James Marshall; Paule Marshall; Thurgood Marshall; Kenyon Martin; Jan Ernst Matzeliger; Benjamin E. Mays; Willie Mays; John Willis Menard; James Meredith; Louise Meriwether; Kweisi Mfume; Oscar Micheaux; Cheryl Miller; Dorie Miller; Florence Mills; Charles Mingus; Arthur Mitchell; Brian Stokes-Mitchell; Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.; Theolonious Monk; Little Brother Montgomery; Archie Moore; Garrett Augustus-Morgan.

Volume 4. Dutch Morial; Garrett Morris; Toni Morrison; Jelly Roll Morton; Edwin Moses; Walter Mosley; Elijah Muhammad; Eddie Murphy; Isaac Burns Murphy; Albert Murray; Pauli Murray; Walter Dean Myers; Ray Nagin; Diane Nash; Fats Navarro; Gloria Naylor; Aaron Neville; Huey P. Newton; Fayard and Harold Nicholas; Herbie Nichols; Nichelle Nichols; E.D. Nixon; Jessye Norman; Eleanor Holmes Norton; Barack Obama; Michelle Obama; Odetta; Hakeem Olajuwon; Hazel R. O'Leary; King Oliver; Shaquille O'Neal; Buck O'Neil; Clarence Otis, Jr.; Chris Owens; Jesse Owens; Terrell Owens; Clarence E. Page; Rod Paige; Satchel Paige; Charlie Parker; Pat Parker; Gordon Parks, Sr.; Rosa Parks; David A. Paterson; Deval Patrick; Floyd Patterson; Frederick D. Patterson; Chris Paul; Walter Payton; Calvin Peete; Rodney Peete; Tyler Perry; Brock Peters; Ann Petry; Bill Pickett; Paul Pierce; Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.; P.B.S. Pinchback; Scottie Pippen; Leonard Pitts; Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable; Sidney Poitier; Fritz Pollard; Alvin Francis Poussaint; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; Colin Powell; Leontyne Price; Lloyd Price; Charley Pride; Pearl Primus; Prince; Professor Longhair; Richard Pryor; Puff Daddy; Benjamin Quarles; Queen Latifah; Albert Raby; Ma Rainey; A. Philip Randolph; Charles Rangel; Phylicia Rashad; Otis Redding; Ed Reed; Ishmael Reed; Tim Reid; Hiram Rhoades Revels; Sylvia M. Rhone; Condoleezza Rice; Jerry Rice; Linda Johnson Rice; Lloyd Richards; Lionel Richie; Rihanna; Norbert Rillieux; Faith Ringgold; Max Roach; Oscar Robertson; Paul Robeson; Bill Robinson; David Robinson; Frank Robinson; Jackie Robinson; Jo Ann Gibson Robinson; Max Robinson; Randall Robinson; Smokey Robinson; Spottswood W. Robinson III; Sugar Ray Robinson; Chris Rock; Al Roker; Sonny Rollins; Diana Ross; Darius Rucker; Wilma Rudolph; Bill Russell; George Russell; John Brown Russwurm; Bayard Rustin; Betye Saar; Sonia Sanchez; Barry Sanders; Deion Sanders; Pharoah Sanders; David Satcher; Augusta Savage; Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; George S. Schuyler; Dred Scott; Briana Scurry; Bobby Seale; Betty Shabazz; Ilyasah Shabazz; Tupac Shakur; Ntozake Shange; Al Sharpton; Bernard Shaw; Art Shell; Archie Shepp; Wayne Shorter; Fred Shuttlesworth; Horace Silver; Joseph Simmons; Kimora Lee Simmons; Russell Simmons; Ruth Simmons; Willie Simms; Nina Simone; O.J. Simpson; Mike Singletary; Benjamin Singleton; John Singleton; John Brooks Slaughter; Robert Smalls; Tavis Smiley; Anna Deavere Smith; Barbara Smith; Bessie Smith; Emmitt Smith; Huey "Piano" Smith; Tommie Smith; Will Smith; Wesley Snipes; Snoop Dogg; Thomas Sowell; Claude M. Steele; Michael Steele; Shelby Steele; Maria Stewart; William Grant Still; Sonny Stitt; Woody Strode; Leon H. Sullivan; Donna Summer, Sun Ra; Taj Mahal; Henry Ossawa Tanner; Lawrence Taylor; Mildred D. Taylor; Mary Church Terrell; Clarence Thomas; Debi Thomas; Frank Thomas; Isiah Thomas; Vivien Thomas; Larry D. Thompson; Henry Threadgill; Emmett Till; Melvin B. Tolson; Jean Toomer; Robert Townsend; William Monroe Trotter.

Volume 5. Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; C. DeLores Tucker; Big Joe Turner; Henry McNeal Turner; Ike Turner; Nat Turner; Tina Turner; McCoy Tyner; Cicely Tyson, Mike Tyson; Neil deGrasse Tyson; Wyomia Tyus; Leslie Uggams; Blair Underwood; Gene Upshaw; Usher; Courtney B. Vance; James Van Der Zee; Mario Van Peebles; Melvin Van Peebles; Sarah Vaughan; Ben Vereen; Denmark Vesey; C.T. Vivian; Jersey Joe Walcott; Alice Walker; David Walker; George Walker; Jimmie Walker; Madam C.J. Walker; Margaret Walker; Fats Waller; Eric Walrond; Alexander Walters; Dionne Warwick; Booker T. Washington; Denzel Washington; Harold Washington; Kenny Washington; Maxine Waters; Muddy Waters; Faye Wattleton; J.C. Watts; Robert C. Weaver; Chick Webb; Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Cornel West; David West; Dorothy West; Kanye West; Togo West; Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr.; Phillis Wheatley; Tyrone Wheatley; Forest Whitaker; Bill White; Walter White; John Edgar Wideman; L. Douglas Wilder; Lenny Wilkens; Roy Wilkins; Bert Williams; Billy Dee Williams; Cootie Williams; Daniel Hale Williams; Gus Williams; Hosea Williams; Juan Williams; Mary Lou Williams; Montel Williams; Robert Franklin Williams; Serena Williams; Vanessa Williams; Venus Williams; Willie L. Williams; Maury Wills; August Wilson; Flip Wilson; Jackie Wilson; William Julius Wilson; Paul Winfield; Oprah Winfrey; James Winkfield; Ernest Withers; George C. Wolfe; Stevie Wonder; Alfre Woodard; Lynette Woodard; Granville T. Woods; Tiger Woods; Carter G. Woodson; Rod Woodson; Jane Cooke Wright; Jeffrey Wright; Jeremiah Wright; Louis T. Wright; Richard Wright; Frank Yerby; Al Young; Andrew Young; Coleman Young; Whitney Young.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613279262

9781283279260

1283279266

9781587657542

1587657546