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The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country /
Author Gates, Henry Louis
Call Number 973.0496 GAT
Publisher New York : Free Press : Simon and Schuster,
Subject African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Title Statement The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our country / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West.
Description xvi, 414 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents 1900-1909. W.E.B. Dubois -- T. Thomas Fortune -- Matthew Henson -- Jack Johnson -- Scott Joplin -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Booker T. Washington -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Bert Williams -- 1910-1919. Mary McLeod Bethune -- George Washington Carver -- Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. -- Thomas A. Dorsey -- W.C. Handy -- James Weldon Johnson -- Jelly Roll Morton -- Charles Henry Turner -- Jimmy Winkfield -- Carter G. Woodson -- 1920-1929. Louis Armstrong -- Junius Austin -- Josephine Baker -- Bessie Coleman -- Marcus Garvey -- Langston Hughes -- Ernest Everett Just -- Oscar Micheaux -- Bessie Smith -- Jean Toomer -- 1930-1939. Marian Anderson -- Sterling A. Brown -- Father Divine -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Robert Johnson -- Joe Louis -- Jesse Owens -- Paul Robeson -- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson -- 1940-1949. Charles R. Drew -- Katherine Dunham -- Duke Ellington -- Billie Holiday -- Lena Horne -- Jacob Lawrence -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- A. Philip Randolph -- Jackie Robinson -- Richard Wright -- 1950-1959. Ralph Bunche -- Nat "King" Cole -- Miles Davis -- Ralph Ellison -- Althea Gibson -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Willie Mays -- Rosa Parks -- Art Tatum -- Sarah Vaughan -- 1960-1969. Muhammad Ali -- James Baldwin -- John Coltrane -- Angela Davis -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Jimi Hendrix -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Thurgood Marshall -- Sidney Poitier -- Malcolm X -- 1970-1979. Hank Aaron -- Maya Angelou -- Romare Bearden -- James Brown -- Marvin Gaye -- Barbara Harris -- Dorothy Height -- Barbara Jordan -- Leontyne Price -- Richard Pryor -- 1980-1989. Alvin Ailey -- Bill Cosby -- John Hope Franklin -- Jesse Jackson -- Michael Jackson -- Carl Lewis -- Jessye Norman -- Martin Puryear -- Alice Walker -- August Wilson -- 1990-1999. Louis Farrakhan -- Michael Jordan -- Spike Lee -- Wynton Marsalis -- Toni Morrison -- Colin Powell -- Tupac Shakur -- Denzel Washington -- Oprah Winfrey -- Tiger Woods.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-402) and index.
Contributors West, Cornel.
ISBN 0684864142
0684864150 (pbk.)
LCCN 00063596
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Bib No. 678230
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