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Introduction 13
Hank Aaron 23
Ira Aldridge 25
Muhammad Ali 27
Richard Allen 31
Marian Anderson 34
Maya Angelou 37
Arthur Ashe 39
Crispus Attucks 41
James Baldwin 44
Benjamin Banneker 48
Amiri Baraka 51
Romare Bearden 54
Mary McLeod Bethune 57
Guion Bluford 61
Arna Bontemps 62
Edward W. Brooke 64
Gwendolyn Brooks 66
Blanche K. Bruce 69
Ralph Bunche 72
George Washington Carver 75
Shirley Chisholm 78
Kenneth B. Clark 81
John Henrik Clarke 84
John Coltrane 87
Bill Cosby 92
Alexander Crummell 94
Countee Cullen 97
Benjamin 0. Davis Jr. 100
Martin R. Delany 103
Frederick Douglass 106
Charles Drew 111
W. E. B. Du Bois 114
Paul Laurence Dunbar 118
Katherine Dunham 120
Duke Ellington 123
James Forten 126
John Hope Franklin 128
Henry Highland Garnet 131
Marcus Garvey 134
Prince Hall 141
Fannie Lou Hamer 146
Lorraine Hansberry 150
Dorothy Height 153
Matthew Henson 155
Charles Houston 157
Langston Hughes 160
Zora Neale Hurston 165
Jesse Jackson 168
Mae Jemison 172
Jack Johnson 174
James Weldon Johnson 177
John H. Johnson 181
Percy Julian 184
Ernest Just 187
Maulana Karenga 190
Martin Luther King Jr. 194
Edmonia Lewis 201
Alain Locke 203
Joe Louis 207
Thurgood Marshall 210
Benjamin E. Mays 215
Elijah McCoy 217
Claude McKay 219
Oscar Micheaux 224
Dorie Miller 227
Garrett Morgan 230
Toni Morrison 232
Elijah Muhammad 235
Jesse Owens 238
Rosa Parks 242
Adam Clayton Powell 246
Colin Powell 250
A. Philip Randolph 255
Hiram Revels 259
Paul Robeson 261
Jackie Robinson 264
John Russwurm 268
Arturo Schomburg 270
Benjamin "Pop" Singleton 272
Mary Church Terrell 275
William Monroe Trotter 279
Sojourner Truth 284
Harriet Tubman 289
Kwame Ture 293
Henry McNeal Turner 296
Nat Turner 299
David Walker 301
Madame C. J. Walker 304
Booker T. Washington 307
Ida B. Wells-Barnett 309
Phillis Wheatley 312
Walter F. White 315
Roy Wilkins 317
Daniel Hale Williams 318
August Wilson 320
Oprah Winfrey 322
Tiger Woods 324
Carter G. Woodson 327
Richard Wright 330
Malcolm X 333
A Final Word 339
Bibliography 341
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
African Americans Biography Encyclopedias, African Americans History Encyclopedias