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100 African-Americans who shaped American history / Chrisanne Beckner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckner, Chrisanne, author.
- 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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