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Jack
Jackson (1878-1946)
First Black heavyweight champion won the title in 1908 and
became a major symbol of Black defiance in first decades of the
century.
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James
Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Civil Rights leader, poet, diplomat was the first Black
secretary of the NAACP and the co-author of "Lift Ev'ry Voice
and Sing"
and author of the popular God's
Trombones, seven sermons in verse.
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Ernest
E. Just (1883-1941)
Scientist and Howard University professor was a leading
zoologist and made key contributions in the fields of experimental
embryology.
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Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Protest leader and Muslim minister championed Black nationalism
and a strong alliance between Africans and African-Americans.
Malcolm
X Malcolm X Letter Malcolm
X Is Dead!
Benjamin
E. Mays (1894-1984)
College president, minister, World Council of Churches leader
(right) taught and served as role model for leaders.
| Jesse
Owens (1913-1980) |
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Track star (above) won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics
and became an international symbol of racial harmony and the
Olympic movement. |
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Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908-1972)
Politician and minister was the first Black congressman from
the East and the first Black chairman of a major congressional
committee.
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A.
Philip Randolph (1889-1978)
Labor leader and activist founded the March on Washington
Movement and helped organize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters.
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Paul
Robeson (1898-1978)
Singer, actor and activist (left) created a new stage image of
commitment and projected an international vision of art for
freedom's sake.
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Jackie
Robinson (1919-1972)
Baseball star joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and became
the first Black to play in the major leagues in modern times.
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Mary
Church Terrell (1883-1954)
Civil rights leader and co-founder of NAACP was first president
of the National Association of Colored Women, which she helped
organize.
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Howard
Thurman (1900-1981)
Preacher, philosopher, mystic (below) developed nonviolent
"love ethic" that influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and
other leaders.
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William
Monroe Trotter (1872-1934)
Civil rights leader and editor (below) initiated the
anti-Booker T. Washington campaign that led to the Niagara
Movement and the NAACP.
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Sojourner
Truth (1797?-1883)
Abolitionist, orator and leader of women's movement (left)
lectured widely and fought for the rights of Black settlers on the
Western frontier.
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Harriet
Tubman (1821/-1913)
Abolitionist, Union scout and spy, and symbol of Black
tradition of heroic women made 19 trips into South and rescued
some 300 slaves.
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Henry
McNeal Turner (1834-1915)
College president, bishop, Union Army chaplain and politician
was a leader of the post-Reconstruction Colonization Movement.
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Nathaniel
Turner (1800-1831)
Leader of Southampton, Va., slave revolt that triggered an
impassioned national debate on the wisdom and viability of the
slave system.
Christian
Martyrdom in Southampton
David Walker
(1785-1830)
Abolitionist and businessman called for a slave revolt in 1829
pamphlet, Walker's Appeal.
Madame
C. J. Walker (1867-1919)
Businesswoman and one of the first self-made woman
millionaires. She made a fortune with hot-iron process for
straightening hair.
Sarah Breedlove Walker
Booker
T. Washington (1856-1915)
College president and national leader--he de-emphasized protest and
emphasized education, work, and economic development.
John S. Bassett Describes
Booker T. Booker
T. Receives Harvard Degree
Atlanta Exposition Address
| Phyllis
Wheatley (1753?-1784) |
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The first major Black poet, Wheatley's 1773 work was the second
book published by an American woman. |
Daniel
Hale Williams(1856-1931)
Surgeon and educator (right) performed the first successful
operation on the human heart at Chicago's Provident Hospital in
1893.
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Carter
G. Woodson (1875-1950)
"Father of Black History" organized first Negro
History Week and founded the Association for the Study of
Afro-American Life and History. A Carter G. Woodson Bibliography
The Negro Washerwoman, a Vanishing
Figure
Richard
Wright
(1908-1960)
Author of Native Son and other novels and books that
helped redefine American race relations. He died in self-imposed
exile in Paris.
A
Review of Native Son
I
Bite the Hand That Feeds Me Wright
Bio-Chronology
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The Panel
Margaret Walker
Alexander, author of Jubilee and professor of English
emeritus, Jackson State University;
Lerone Bennett Jr.,
author of Before The Mayflower;
Mary Frances Berry,
co-author of Long Memory: The Black Experience in America;
Margaret
Burroughs, founder of DuSable Museum of African-American
History;
Samuel DuBois Cook,
political scientist and president of Dillard University;
Clayborne Carson,
director, Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project;
Adelaide Cromwell,
emeritus professor of sociology/Afro-American Studies, Boston
University;
Howard Dodson,
chief, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;
Helen G. Edmonds,
professor of history emeritus, North Carolina Central University;
John Hope Franklin,
author of From Slavery To Freedom and James B. Duke
Professor Emeritus, Duke University;
Paula Giddings,
author of When and Where I Enter. The Impact of Black Women on
Race and Sex in America;
Vincent Harding,
author of There Is A River and professor of religion and
social transformation, Iliff school of Theology;
Robert L. Harris
Jr., director, Africana Studies & Research Center, Cornell
University;
Darlene Clark Hine,
John A. Hanna Distinguished Professor of History, Michigan State
University;
Alton Hornsby Jr.,
editor of the Journal of Negro History and professor of history,
Morehouse College;
Doris E. Saunders,
professor of mass communications, Jackson State University;
James Turner,
associate professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell
University;
Hanes Walton Jr., Fuller E. Callaway
Professor Political Science, Savannah State College.
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Ebony magazine organized this panel of
nationally known scholars (above) which listed men and
women who made indispensable contributions. All, however, have
been nominated for immortality by a select panel of nationally
known scholars who were asked in 1989 to submit the names of 40
Black Immortals who made, in their judgment, indispensable
contributions to Black America.
The list includes nine ministers, eight writers,
four athletes, three scientists, three musicians, two surgeons,
one actor-singer, one politician, and one practicing lawyer. Two
Whites--John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--received votes.
Some died at the height of their fame. Others died in obscurity.
The key criterion was an individual who
transcended his or her field and made an essential contribution to
the development of Black America by contributing an idea,
invention or program or by organizing and/or leading a pivotal
organization and movement.
Source:
Lerone
Bennett Jr.,
Ebony,
Feb93, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p122, 11p
*In
1989. Reprinted and revised from February, 1989 EBONY.
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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