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Beckner, Chrisanne.

100 African Americans who changed American history / Chrisanne Beckner.

Previously published as: 100 African-Americans who shaped American history.

Includes index.

Milwaukee : World Almanac Library, 2005.

112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Profiles one hundred African Americans who have played vital roles in the shaping of American history, including Dred Scott, Toni Morrison, Harriet Tubman, Louis Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Crispus Attucks 1723-1770-- Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806-- Elizabeth Freeman 1742-1829-- Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784-- Paul Cuffe 1759-1817-- Richard Allen 1760-1831-- James Forten 1766-1842-- Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm 1795-1858 and 1799-1851-- Dred Scott 1795-1858-- Sojourner Truth 1797-1883-- Nat Turner 1800-1831-- Martin R. Delany 1812-1885-- Henry H. Garnet 1815-1882-- Frederick Douglass 1817-1895-- Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 -- Henry McNeal Turner 1834-1915-- P. B. S. Pinchback 1837-1921-- Robert Smalls 1839-1915-- Elijah McCoy 1843-1929-- Lewis Howard Latimer 1848-1928-- George Washington Williams 1849-1891-- Nat Love 1854-1921-- T. Thomas Fortune 1856-1928-- Booker T. Washington 1856-1915-- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 1856-1931-- Granville T. Woods 1856-1910 -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1856-1910 -- Mary Church Terrell 1863-1954 -- George Washington Carver 1864-1943 -- Matthew Henson 1866-1955 -- Madame C.J. Walker 1867-1919 -- W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1963 -- John Hope 1868-1936 -- Scott Joplin 1868-1917 -- Robert Abbott 1870-1940 -- James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938 -- Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 -- William M. Trotter 1872-1934 -- William Christopher Handy 1873-1958 -- Arthur Schomburg 1874-1938 -- Mary McLeod Bethune 1975-1955 -- Garrett A. Morgan 1875-1963 -- Carter G. Woodson 1875-1950 -- Jack Johnson 1878-1946 -- Oscar Micheaux 1884-1940 -- Marcus Garvey 1887-1940 -- Claude McKay 1889-1948 -- A. Philip Randolph 1889-1979 -- Mordecai W. Johnson 1890-1976 -- Bessie Coleman 1892-1926 -- Frederick McKinley Jones 1893-1961 -- Walter F. White 1893-1955 -- E. Franklin Frazier 1894-1962 -- Bessie Smith 1894-1937 -- Charles H. Houston 1895-1950 -- Banjamin E. Mays 1895-1984 -- Paul Robeson 1898-1976 -- Duke Ellington 1899-1974 -- Percy Lavon Julian 1899-1974 -- Louis Armstrong 1900-1971 -- Zora Neale Hurston 1901-1960 -- Roy Wilkins 1901-1981 -- Marian Anderson 1902-1993 -- Langston Hughes 1902-1967 -- Ralph Bunche 1904-1971 -- Dr. Charles R. Drew 1904-1950 -- Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993 -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1908-1972 -- Richard Wright 1908-1960 -- Katherine Dunham b. 1909 -- Bayard Rustin 1910-1987 -- Rosa Parks b. 1913 -- Jesse Owens 1913-1980 -- Kenneth B. Clark b. 1914 -- Billie Holiday 1915-1959 -- Gwendolyn Brooks b. 1917 -- Ossie Davis b. 1917 -- Ruby Dee b. 1924 -- Fannie Lou Hamer 1970-1977 -- John H. Johnson b. 1918 -- Jackie Robinson 1919-1972 -- Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. 1920-1978 -- Alex Haley 1921-1992 -- Whitney M. Young, Jr. 1921-1971 -- Leon Sullivan b. 1922 -- James Baldwin 1924-1987 -- Shirley Chisholm b. 1924 -- Malcolm X 1925-1965 -- Harry Belafonte b. 1927 -- Maya Angelou b. 1928 -- Lerone Bennett, Jr. b. 1928 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 -- Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965 -- Toni Morrison b 1931 -- Bill Cosby b. 1937 -- Colin Powell b. 1937 -- Marian Wright Edelman b. 1939 -- Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994 -- Bill Gray b. 1941 -- Jesse Jackson b. 1941 -- Muhammad Ali b. 1942.

People who changed American history

People who changed American history.

African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Juvenile biography.

African Americans -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.

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One hundred African Americans who changed American history

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