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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This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
A. List of African-American abolitionists; List of African-American activists; List of African-American actors; African Americans in foreign policy; African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named John Brown Russwurm on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. [19] The John Brown Russwurm House at Bowdoin College was named after Russwurm in 1970, and houses the school's African American Center. [20]
1937 – Awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, for outstanding achievement by an African American. 2002 – Molefi Kete Asante listed Walter Francis White on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. [49] 2009 – White was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. [50]
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Established in 2017, the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund stands between historic Black cultural sites and efforts to destroy them.
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante named Carter G. Woodson on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. [45] In 2015, a bronze statue of Woodson was placed in the park named for him in Washington, D.C. [46] On February 1, 2018, he was honored with a Google Doodle. [47]
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