100 African Americans Who Shaped American History

, by Clarke, Joanne

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ISBN: 9780912517186 | 0912517182
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1995

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Summary

For use in schools and libraries only. Offers brief biographies of African American educators, entertainers, inventors, authors, athletes, and others who have made important contributions to American life.

Introduction

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Crispus Attucks 1723-1770

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Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806

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Elizabeth Freeman 1742-1829

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Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784

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Paul Cuffe 1759-1817

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Richard Allen 1760-1831

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James Forten 1766-1842

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Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm 1795-1858 and 1799-1851

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Dred Scott 1795-1858

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Sojourner Truth 1797-1883

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Nat Turner 1800-1831

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Martin R. Delany 1812-1885

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Henry H. Garnet 1815-1882

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Frederick Douglass 1817-1895

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Harriet Tubman 1820-1913

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Henry McNeal Turner 1834-1915

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P.B.S. Pinchback 1837-1921

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Robert Smalls 1839-1915

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Elijah McCoy 1843-1929

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Lewis Howard Latimer 1848-1928

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George Washington Williams 1849-1891

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Nat Love 1854-1921

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T. Thomas Fortune 1856-1928

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Booker T. Washington 1856-1915

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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 1856-1931

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Granville T. Woods 1856-1910

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IDA B. Wells-Barnett 1862-1931

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Mary Church Terrell 1863-1954

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George Washington Carver 1864-1943

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Matthew Henson 1866-1955

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Madame C.J. Walker 1867-1919

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W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1963

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John Hope 1868-1936

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Scott Joplin 1868-1917

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Robert Abbott 1870-1940

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James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938

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Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906

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William M. Trotter 1872-1934

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William Christopher Handy 1873-1958

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Arthur Schomburg 1874-1938

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Mary McLeod Bethune 1875-1955

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Garrett A. Morgan 1875-1963

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Carter G. Woodson 1875-1950

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Jack Johnson 1878-1946

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Oscar Micheaux 1884-1951

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Marcus Garvey 1887-1940

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Claude McKay 1889-1948

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A. Philip Randolph 1889-1979

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Mordecai W. Johnson 1890-1976

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Bessie Coleman 1892-1926

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Fredericy McKinley Jones 1893-1961

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Walter F. White 1893-1955

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E. Franklin Frazier 1894-1962

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Bessie Smith 1894-1937

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Charles H. Houston 1895-1950

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Benjamin E. Mays 1895-1984

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Paul Robeson 1898-1976

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Duke Ellington 1899-1974

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Percy Lavon Julian 1899-1975

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Louis Armstrong 1900-1971

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Zora Neale Hurston 1901-1960

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Roy Wilkins 1901-1981

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Marian Anderson 1902-1993

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Langston Hughes 1902-1967

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Ralph Bunche 1904-1971

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Dr. Charles R. Drew 1904-1950

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Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993

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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1908-1972

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Richard Wright 1908-1960

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Katherine Dunham 1909

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Bayard Rustin 1910-1987

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Rosa Parks 1913

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Jesse Owens 1913-1980

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Kenneth B. Clark 1914

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Billie Holiday 1915-1959

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Gwendolyn Brooks 1917

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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 1917 and 1924

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Fannie Lou Hamer 1917-1977

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John H. Johnson 1918

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Jackie Robinson 1919-1972

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Daniel ``Chappie'' James, Jr. 1920-1978

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Alex Haley 1921-1992

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Whitney M. Young, Jr. 1921-1971

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Leon Sullivan 1922

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James Baldwin 1924-1987

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Shirley Chisholm 1924

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Malcolm X 1925-1965

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Harry Belafonte 1927

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Maya Angelou 1928

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Lerone Bennett, Jr. 1928

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

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Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965

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Toni Morrison 1931

100

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Bill Cosby 1937

101

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Colin Powell 1937

102

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Marian Wright Edelman 1939

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Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994

104

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Bill Gray 1941

105

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Jesse Jackson 1941

106

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Muhammad Ali 1942

107

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Trivia Questions & Project Suggestions

108

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Index

110

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