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

Author/creator Beckner, Chrisanne author.
Format Book
PublicationSan Mateo, CA : Bluewood Books, 1995.
Copyright Date©1995
Description112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Biography. --Juvenile literature.
African Americans--History. --Juvenile literature.

Portion of title One hundred African-Americans who shaped American history
Spine title 100 African-Americans
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.
Abstract Presents the lives and accomplishments of 100 African Americans who made a difference in the history of the United States.
General noteIncludes index.
ISBN9780912517186 (paperback)
ISBN0912517182 (paperback) :

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