Icons of Black America / Matthew C. Whitaker, editor.
This stunning collection of essays illuminates the lives and legacies of the most famous and powerful individuals, groups, and institutions in African American history.
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| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Greenwood,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Photos; Series Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Muhammad Ali; Maya Angelou; Apollo Theater; Louis Armstrong; Arthur Ashe; Ella Baker; Jose ́phine Baker; James Baldwin; Charles Barkley; Harry Belafonte; Halle Berry; Barry Bonds; Carol Moseley Braun; Ralph Bunche; Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture); George Washington Carver; Ray Charles; Shirley Chisholm; Bill Cosby; Dorothy Dandridge; Angela Davis; Miles Davis; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Frederick Douglass; W.E.B. Du Bois; Duke Ellington; Ralph Ellison; Louis Farrakhan.
- 54th Massachusetts InfantryElla Fitzgerald; Aretha Franklin; Marcus Garvey; Marvin Gaye; Nikki Giovanni; Volume 2; Alex Haley; Fannie Lou Hamer; Harlem Globetrotters; Jimi Hendrix; Billie Holiday; Lena Horne; Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston; Michael Jackson; Jay-Z; Earvin "Magic" Johnson; Jack Johnson; James Weldon Johnson; Robert L. Johnson; Quincy Jones; Barbara Jordan; Michael Jordan; Florence Griffith Joyner; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Spike Lee; Joe Louis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hattie McDaniel; Morehouse College; Toni Morrison; Motown Records; Elijah Muhammad.
- Negro Baseball LeaguesHuey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; Barack Obama; Michelle Obama; Jesse Owens; Rosa Parks; Sidney Poitier; Colin Powell; Richard Pryor; Volume 3; A. Philip Randolph; Ishmael Reed; Condoleezza Rice; Paul Robeson; Jackie Robinson; Bayard Rustin; Dred Scott; Tupac Shakur; Russell Simmons; Tommie Smith and John Carlos; Will Smith; Spelman College; Mary Church Terrell; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; Nat Turner; Tuskegee Airmen; Alice Walker; Madam C.J. Walker; Booker T. Washington; Denzel Washington; Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Cornel West; Venus Williams and Serena Williams.
- Oprah WinfreyStevie Wonder; Tiger Woods; Carter G. Woodson; Richard Wright; Selected Bibliography; About the Editor and Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.