| Description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: The biographical dictionary of Black Americans / Rachel C. Kranz. c1992. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Aaron, Henry Louis ("Hank) -- Abernathy, Ralph David, Sr. -- Ailey, Alvin, Jr. -- Aldridge, Ira Frederick -- Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Marcellus Clay) -- Allen, Richard -- Alston, Charles H. -- Anderson, Marian -- Angelou, Maya (Marguerite Johnson) -- Antoine, Caesar Carpetier -- Armistead, James Lafayette -- Armstrong, Louis ("Satchmo") -- Ashe, Arthur Robert, Jr. -- Attucks, Crispus -- Baldwin, James Arthur -- Bambara, Toni Cade -- Banneker, Benjamin -- Bannister, Edward Mitchell -- Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) -- Barnett, Claude Albert -- Barthé, Richmond -- Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos -- Bearden, Fred Romare Howard -- Beckwourth, James Pierson (Beckwirth) -- Belafonte, Harold George, Jr. ("Harry") -- Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod -- Binga, Jesse -- Blake, James Hubert ("Eubie") -- Bland, James -- Bontemps, Arna -- Brooke, Edward William -- Brooks, Gwendolyn -- Bunche, Ralph Johnson -- Cardozo, William Warrick -- Carney, William H. -- Carver, George Washington -- Chamberlain, Wilton Norman ("Wilt") -- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell -- Childress, Alice -- Chuck D. (Carlton Ridenhour) -- Cinque, Joseph -- Coleman, Bessie -- Cosby, William Henry, Jr. ("Bill") -- Couvent, Justine (Madame Couvent) -- Cromwell, Oliver -- Crummell, Alexander -- Cuffe, Paul -- Cullen, Countée (Countée Porter) -- Dailey, Ulysses Grant -- Davis, Angela Yvonne -- Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr. -- Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr. -- Davis, Ossie -- Dee, Ruby -- Delany, Martin Robinson -- Dixon, Dean Charles -- Douglass, Frederick -- Drew, Charles Richard -- DuBois, William Edward Burghardt -- Dunbar, Paul Laurence -- Dunham, Katherine -- Du Sable, Jean-Baptiste Pointe -- Edelman, Marian Wright -- Elders, Minnie Joycelyn -- Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") -- Ellison, Ralph Waldo -- Evans, Mari -- Evanti, Madame Lillian (Lillian Evans) -- Evers, Medgar Wiley -- Fauset, Jessie Redmon -- Flora, William -- Forten, Charlotte L. (Charlotte Grimké) -- Forten, James, Sr. -- Fortune, Timothy Thomas -- Franklin, John Hope -- Freeman, Morgan -- Garnet, |
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Henry Highland -- Garvey, Marcus Mosiah -- Gaston, Arthur George -- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. -- Gibson, Althea -- Gilpin, Charles Sidney -- Giovanni, Nikki (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.) -- Goldberg, Whoopi (Caryn Johnson) -- Gordy, Barry, Jr. -- Grimké, Archibald Henry -- Hale, Clara McBride ("Mother") -- Haley, Alex Palmer -- Handy, William Christopher -- Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian -- Hayes, Roland -- Healy, James Augustine -- Hemings, Sally -- Hendrix, Jimi -- Henson, Matthew Alexander ("Matt") -- Holiday, Billie -- Horne, Lena Mary Calhoun -- Houston, Charles Hamilton -- Hughes, James Langston -- Hunt, Richard Howard -- Hunter-Gault, Charlayne -- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Jackson, Jesse Louis -- Jackson, Michael Joseph -- Jackson, Reginald Martinez ("Reggie") -- Jefferson, Lemon ("Blind Lemon") -- Jemison, Mae Carol -- Johnson, Charles Spurgeon -- Johnson, Earvin, Jr. ("Magic") -- Johnson, James Weldon (James William Johnson) -- Johnson, John Harold -- Jones, James Earl -- Joplin, Scott -- Jordan, Barbara -- Jordan, Michael -- Jordan, Vernon Eulion, Jr. -- Joyner-Kersee, Jackie -- Julian, Percy Lavon -- Just, Ernest Everett -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- King, Martin Luther, Sr. -- Lafon, Thomy -- Larsen, Nella -- Latimer, Lewis Howard -- Lawless, Theodore K. -- Lawrence, Jacob Armstead -- Ledbetter, Huddie ("Leadbelly") -- Lee, Canada (Lionel Cornelius Canegata) -- Lee, Shelton Jackson ("Spike") -- Leidesdorff, William Alexander -- Lester, Julius Bernard -- Lewis, Mary Edmonia (Wildfire) -- Locke, Alain Leroy -- Louis, Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) -- McCoy, Elijah -- McCullough, Geraldine Hamilton -- McDaniel, Hattie -- McKay, Claude -- Marsalis, Wynton -- Marshall, Thurgood -- Matzeliger, Jan Earnst -- Mays, Benjamin Elijah -- Micheaux, Oscar -- Morgan, Garrett A. -- Morrison, Toni (Chloe Anthony Wofford) -- Moseley-Braun, Carol Elizabeth -- Motley, Constance Baker -- Muhammad, Elijah (Robert Poole) -- Myers, Isaac -- Newton, Huey Percy -- Norton, Eleanor Holmes -- Odetta (Odetta Gordon; Odetta Felious |
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Gordon; Odetta Holmes) -- Overton, Anthony -- Owens, Jesse (James Cleveland Owens) -- Paige, Leroy Robert ("Satchel") -- Parker, Chalres, Jr. -- Parks, Gordon Roger -- Parks, Rosa (Rose Louise McCauley) -- Paul, Thomas, Sr. -- Payne, Daniel Alexander -- Perkins, Marion -- Poitier, Sidney -- Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. -- Powell, Colin Luther -- Price, Leontyne ("Mary") -- Prosser, Gabriel -- Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) -- Rainey, Gertrude Pridgett ("Ma") -- Randolph, Asa Philip -- Rapier, James Thomas -- Rillieux, Norbert -- Robeson, Eslanda Cardozo Goode -- Robeson, Paul -- Robinson, Jack Roosevelt ("Jackie") -- Rudolph, Wilma (Glodean) -- Russwurm, John Brown -- Salem, Peter -- Scarborough, William Sanders -- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso -- Scott, Dred -- Shabazz, Hajj Bahiyah Betty (Betty Sanders) -- Shakur, Tupac Amaru -- Simmons, William J. -- Simpson, Orenthal James ("O.J.") -- Singleton, Benjamin ("Pap") -- Smalls, Robert -- Smith, Bessie -- Smith, Ferdinand Christopher -- Smythe, John H. -- Spaulding, Charles Clinton -- Still, William -- Tanner, Henry Ossawa -- Terrell, Mary Church -- Thomas, Clarence -- Thurman, Howard -- Tolton, Augustine -- Toomer, Nathan Jean -- Trotter, James Monroe -- Truth, Sojourner -- Tubman, Harriet -- Turner, Henry McNeal -- Turner, Nat -- Vann, Robert Lee -- Varick, James -- Vesey, Denmark -- Walker, Alice Malsenior -- Walker, Madame C.J. (Sarah Breedlove) -- Walker, David -- Walker, George -- Walker, Maggie Lena -- Walker, Margaret Abigail (Margaret Walker Alexander) -- Washington, Booker Taliaferro -- Waters, Ethel -- Weaver, Robert Clifton -- Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell -- West, Cornel -- Wheatley, Phillis -- Whipper, Ionia Rollin -- Whipple, Prince -- White, Clarence Cameron -- White, Walter Francis -- Williams, Bert -- Williams, Daniel Hale ("Dr. Dan") -- Williams, George Washington -- Williams, Paul Revere -- Wilson, August -- Wilson, James Finley -- Wilson, William Julius -- Winfrey, Oprah Gail -- Woods, Eldrick ("Tiger") -- Woods, Granville T. -- Woodson, Carter Goodwin |
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-- Wright, Richard -- X, Malcolm (Malcolm Little; Al Hajj Malik al-Shabazz) -- Young, Andrew -- Young, Charles |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Biography -- Dictionaries, Juvenile.
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| Added Author |
Koslow, Philip.
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Kranz, Rachel.
Biographical dictionary of Black Americans.
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| ISBN |
0816039038 (acid-free paper) |
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9780816039036 (acid-free paper) |
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0816039046 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780816039043 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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