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100 African-Americans who shaped American history / Chrisanne Beckner.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beckner, Chrisanne, author.
Contributor:
Class of 1932 Fund.
Series:
100 series.
100 series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Biography.
African Americans.
African Americans--History.
Afro-Americans--Biography.
Genre:
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:
112 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Other Title:
One hundred African-Americans who shaped American history
100 African-Americans
Place of Publication:
San Mateo, CA : Bluewood Books, 1995.
Summary:
Presents the lives and accomplishments of 100 African Americans who made a difference in the history of the United States.
Contents:
Crispus Attucks
Benjamin Banneker
Elizabeth Freeman
Phillis Wheatley
Paul Cuffe
Richard Allen
James Forten
Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm
Dred Scott
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
Martin R. Delany
Henry H. Garnet
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Henry McNeal Turner
P.B.S. Pinchback
Robert Smalls
Elijah McCoy
Lewis Howard Latimer
George Washingtion Williams
Nat Love
T. Thomas Fortune
Booker T. Washington
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Granville T. Woods
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Mary Church Terrell.
George Washington Carver
Matthew Henson
Madame C.J. Walker
W.E.B. Du Bois
John Hope
Scott Joplin
Robert Abbott
James Weldon Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
William M. Trotter
William Christopher Handy
Arthur Schomburg
Mary McLeod Bethune
Garrett A. Morgan
Carter G. Woodson
Jack Johnson
Oscar Micheaux
Marcus Garvey
Claude McKay
A. Philip Randolph
Mordecai W. Johnson
Bessie Coleman
Frederick McKinley Jones
Walter F. White
E. Franklin Frazier
Bessie Smith
Charles H. Houston
Banjamin E. Mays
Paul Robeson.
Duke Ellington
Percy Lavon Julian
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neale Hurston
Roy Wilkins
Marian Anderson
Langston Hughes
Ralph Bunche
Dr. Charles R. Drew
Thurgood Marshall
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Richard Wright
Katherine Dunham
Bayard Rustin
Rosa Parks
Jesse Owens
Kenneth B. Clark
Billie Holiday
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Fannie Lou Hamer
John H. Johnson
Jackie Robinson
Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr.
Alex Haley
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Leon Sullivan
James Baldwin
Shirley Chisholm
Malcolm X
Harry Belafonte
Maya Angelou.
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lorraine Hansberry
Toni Morrison
Bill Cosby
Colin Powell
Marian Wright Edelman
Wilma Rudolph
Bill Gray
Jesse Jackson
Muhammad Ali.
Notes:
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
ISBN:
9780912517186
0912517182
0329170597
9780329170592
0912517174
9780912517179
OCLC:
34136151

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