Originally published: Black heroes of the 20th century by Jessie Carney Smith, editor ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, 1998
Contents:
Hank Aaron ; Robert S. Abbott ; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ; Alvin Ailey -- Muhammad Ali ; Marian Anderson ; Maya Angelou ; Arthur Ashe ; Josephine Baker ; Ernie Banks ; Count Basie ; Romare Bearden ; Harry Belafonte ; Lerone Bennett Jr. ; Mary Berry ; Mary McLeod Bethune ; Julian Bond ; Arna Bontemps ; Edward W. Brooke ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; James Brown ; Ron Brown ; Ralph Bunche ; Nannie Helen Burroughs ; Sherian Grace Cadoria ; Stokely Carmichael ; Elizabeth Catlett ; Shirley Chisholm ; Kenneth B. Clark ; Septima Clark ; Eldridge Cleaver ; Johnnie Cochran ; Nat "King" Cole ; Annie J. Cooper ; Bill Cosby ; Dorothy Dandridge ; Angela Davis ; Benjamin O. Davis Sr. ; Sammy Davis Jr. ; The Delany sisters. David N. Dinkins ; M.J. Divine (Father Divine) ; Aaron Douglas ; Charles R. Drew ; W.E.B. Du Bois ; Katherine Dunham ; Marian Wright Edelman ; Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds ; Joycelyn Elders ; Duke Ellington ; Medgar W. Evers ; Louis Farrakhan ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Aretha Franklin ; John Hope Franklin ; Marcus Garvey ; Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; Nikki Giovanni ; Whoopi Goldberg ; Berry Gordy ; Earl G. Graves ; William H. Gray III ; Bryant C. Gumbel ; Alex Haley ;-- Fannie Lou Hamer ; W.C. Handy ; Patricia Harris ; William H. Hastie ; Charlotte Hawkins Brown ; Dorothy Height ; Jimi Hendrix ; Lena Horne ; Charles Hamilton Houston ; Langston Hughes ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Jesse L. Jackson ; Michael Jackson ; Shirley Ann Jackson ; Mae C. Jemison ; Charles S. Johnson ; Earvin "Magic" Johnson ; James Weldon Johnson ; John H. Johnson ; Robert L. Johnson ; Quincy D. Jones ; Barbara Jordan ; Michael Jordan ; Percy L. Julian ; Ernest E. Just ; B.B. King ; Martin Luther King Jr. ; Jacob Lawrence ; Spike Lee ; Alain Locke ; Jackie "Moms" Mabley ; Haki Madhubuti ; Annie Turnbo Malone ; Thurgood Marshall ; James Meredith ; Kweisi Mfume ; Oscar Micheaux ; Florence Mills ; Toni Morrison ; Carol E. Moseley-Braun ; Elijah Muhammad ; Eddie Murphy ; Huey P. Newton ; Jesse Owens ; Charlie "Yardbird" Parker ; Gordon Parks ; Rosa Parks ; Bill Pickett ; Sidney Poitier ; Alvin F. Poussaint ; Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ; Colin L. Powell. Leontyne Price ; Samuel DeWitt Procter ; A. Philip Randolph ; Paul Robeson ; Jackie Robinson ; Randall Robinson ; Carl T. Rowan ; Bayard Rustin ; Arthur A. Schomburg ; Betty Shabazz ; Charles Clinton Spaulding ; Mabel Keaton Staupers ; Mary Church Terrell ; William Monroe Trotter ; Rosina Tucker ; Melvin Van Peebles ; Madame C.J. Walker ; Denzel Washington ; Maxine Waters ; Faye Wattleton ; Robert C. Weaver ; Ida B. Wells Barnett ; Cornel West ; Walter White ; L. Douglas Wilder ; August Wilson ; Oprah Winfrey ; Tiger Woods ; Carter G. Woodson ; Richard Wright ; Malcolm X ; Andrew Young ; Coleman Young ; Whitney Moore Young Jr.
Summary:
This volume highlights the biographies of African American men and women of note, heroes, as defined by their lives and work.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.