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DL = Domestic leadership FPL = Foreign-policy leadership MA = Moral authority HL = Historical legacy (positive significance of) O = Overall Blue backgrounds indicate first quartile. Green backgrounds indicate second quartile. Yellow-green backgrounds indicate the median. Yellow backgrounds indicate third quartile.
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.
American statesman John C. Calhoun was one of the most prominent advocates of the "slavery as a positive good" viewpoint. Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or a necessary evil ...
Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of ...
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. The United States of America has a long history of racism against its Black citizens. [2]
Gallup, an American analytics and advisory company, conducted an annual opinion poll to determine the most admired man and woman in the United States at the end of most years from 1946 to 2020. [1] Americans are asked, without prompting, to say which man and woman "living today in any part of the world" they admire the most.
American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings [178] Andrew Wyeth: 1917–2009 American regionalist painter and one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century [179] Patricia Hill Burnett: 1920–2014 Portrait artist and women's rights activist [180] Brigid Berlin: 1939–2020 American artist and Warhol superstar ...
Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American Protestant clergyman, [1] and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).