100 Greatest African Americans

100 Greatest African Americans

"100 Greatest African Americans" is a biographical dictionary of the one hundred historically greatest African Americans, as assessed by scholar Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.

Criteria

Asante used five factors in establishing the list:

*"significance in the general progress of African Americans toward full equality in the American social and political system"
*"self-sacrifice and a willingness to take great risks for the collective good"
*"unusual will and determination in the face of great danger and against the most stubborn odds"
*"a consistent posture toward raising the social, cultural and economic status of African Americans"
*"personal achievement that reveals the best qualities of the African American people"

Asante consciously omits some contemporary celebritries, whom he did not consider notable enough for a historical list.

Asante does not rank the historical figures.

List

*Hank Aaron
*Ira Aldridge
*Muhammad Ali
*Richard Allen
*Marian Anderson
*Maya Angelou
*Arthur Ashe
*Crispus Attucks
*James Baldwin
*Benjamin Banneker
*Amiri Baraka
*Romare Bearden
*Mary McLeod Bethune
*Guion Bluford
*Arna Bontemps
*Edward W. Brooke
*Gwendolyn Brooks
*Blanche K. Bruce
*Ralph Bunche
*George Washington Carver
*Shirley Chisholm
*Kenneth B. Clark
*John Henrik Clarke
*John Coltrane
*Bill Cosby
*Alexander Crummell
*Countee Cullen
*Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
*Martin R. Delany
*Frederick Douglass
*Charles Drew
*W. E. B. Du Bois
*Paul Laurence Dunbar
*Katherine Dunham
*Duke Ellington
*James Forten
*John Hope Franklin
*Henry Highland Garnet
*Marcus Garvey
*Prince Hall
*Fannie Lou Hamer
*Lorraine Hansberry
*Dorothy Height
*Matthew Henson
*Charles Houston
*Langston Hughes
*Zora Neale Hurston
*Jesse Jackson
*Mae Jemison
*Jack Johnson
*James Weldon Johnson
*John H. Johnson
*Percy Julian
*Ernest Just
*Maulana Karenga
*Martin Luther King Jr.
*Edmonia Lewis
*Alain Locke
*Joe Louis
*Thurgood Marshall
*Benjamin E. Mays
*Elijah McCoy
*Claude McKay
*Oscar Micheaux
*Dorie Miller
*Garrett Morgan
*Toni Morrison
*Elijah Muhammad
*Jesse Owens
*Rosa Parks
*Adam Clayton Powell
*Colin Powell
*A. Philip Randolph
*Hiram Revels
*Paul Robeson
*Jackie Robinson
*John Russwurm
*Arturo Schomburg
*Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
*Mary Church Terrell
*William Monroe Trotter
*Sojourner Truth
*Harriet Tubman
*Kwame Ture
*Henry McNeal Turner
*Nat Turner
*David Walker
*Madame C. J. Walker
*Booker T. Washington
*Ida B. Wells-Barnett
*Phillis Wheatley
*Walter F. White
*Roy Wilkins
*Daniel Hale Williams
*August Wilson
*Oprah Winfrey
*Tiger Woods
*Carter G. Woodson
*Richard Wright
*Malcolm X

References

* Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). "100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia". Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-963-8.


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