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100 Greatest African Americans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_African_Americans
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of the one hundred historically greatest Black Americans (in no particular order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by 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's List [1]
- 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 Hamilton 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
- Doris Miller
- Garrett Morgan
- Toni Morrison
- Elijah Muhammad
- Jesse Owens
- Rosa Parks
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Colin Powell
- A. Philip Randolph
- Hiram Revels
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- John Russwurm
- Arturo Schomburg
- Benjamin "Pop" 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
- Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson
- Richard Wright
- Malcolm X