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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.
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
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.
Maya Angelou speaks during the AARP Magazine's 2011 Inspire Awards. Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
Only Black people can eclipse their history, culture and the physics of light refraction. Notable Transcenders: Barack Obama. Oprah Winfrey. Black artists whose work can be appropriated by white ...
Starting with just a $100 loan from his mother, Cornelius Vanderbilt went on to become one of the biggest industrialists in American history, building a vast fortune out of steamships and railways.
First known African American (and slave) to compose a work of literature: Lucy Terry with her poem "Bars Fight", composed in 1746 [7] and first published in 1855 in Josiah Holland's History of Western Massachusetts.