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100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans.
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960 ...
Time 100 is a list of the top 100 most influential people, assembled by the American news magazine Time.First published in 1999 as the result of a debate among American academics, politicians, and journalists, the list is now a highly publicized annual event.
Although most white people disliked him when he was a living, breathing human being, Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most beloved Americans of all time because he died for civil rights.
The May 2001 "100+ Most Influential Black Americans" issue did not include a number of influential African Americans such as Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams and, most notably, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The Economist described the exclusion of Justice Thomas from the list as spiteful. [29]
Here's a list of the 200 most influential African-American Leon County residents: ... winningest coach in college football history at that time (1945-1969). Mercedes Williams – nurse, ...
By the time of the armistice with Germany in November 1918, over 350,000 African Americans had served with the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Most African American units were relegated to support roles and did not see combat.