Tables of Contents for 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History

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Tables of Contents for 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History

Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

Introduction

7

1

Crispus Attucks

8

1

1723-1770

Benjamin Banneker

9

1

1731-1806

Elizabeth Freeman

10

1

1742-1829

Phillis Wheatley

11

1

1753-1784

Paul Cuffe

12

1

1759-1817

Richard Allen

13

1

1760-1831

James Forten

14

1

1766-1842

Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm

15

1

1795-1858 and 1799-1851

Dred Scott

16

1

1795-1858

Sojourner Truth

17

1

1797-1883

Nat Turner

18

1

1800-1831

Martin R. Delany

19

1

1812-1885

Henry H. Garnet

20

1

1815-1882

Frederick Douglass

21

1

1817-1895

Harriet Tubman

22

1

1820-1913

Henry McNeal Turner

23

1

1834-1915

P.B.S. Pinchback

24

1

1837-1921

Robert Smalls

25

1

1839-1915

Elijah McCoy

26

1

1843-1929

Lewis Howard Latimer

27

1

1848-1928

George Washington Williams

28

1

1849-1891

Nat Love

29

1

1854-1921

T. Thomas Fortune

30

1

1856-1928

Booker T. Washington

31

1

1856-1915

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

32

1

1856-1931

Granville T. Woods

33

1

1856-1910

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

34

1

1862-1931

Mary Church. Terrell

35

1

1863-1954

George Washington Carver

36

1

1864-1943

Matthew Henson

37

1

1866-1955

Madame C.J. Walker

38

1

1867-1919

W.E.B. Du Bois

39

1

1868-1963

John Hope

40

1

1868-1936

Scott Joplin

41

1

1868-1917

Robert Abbott

42

1

1870-1940

James Weldon Johnson

43

1

1871-1938

Paul Laurence Dunbar

44

1

1872-1906

William M. Trotter

45

1

1872-1934

William Christopher Handy

46

1

1873-1958

Arthur Schomburg

47

1

1874-1938

Mary McLeod Bethune

48

1

1875-1955

Garrett A. Morgan

49

1

1875-1963

Carter G. Woodson

50

1

1875-1950

Jack Johnson

51

1

1878-1946

Oscar Micheaux

52

1

1884-1951

Marcus Garvey

53

1

1887-1940

Claude McKay

54

1

1889-1948

A. Philip Randolph

55

1

1889-1979

Mordecai W. Johnson

56

1

1890-1976

Bessie Coleman

57

1

1892-1926

Frederick McKinley Jones

58

1

1893-1961

Walter F. White

59

1

1893-1955

E. Franklin Frazier

60

1

1894-1962

Bessie Smith

61

1

1894-1937

Charles H. Houston

62

1

1895-1950

Benjamin E. Mays

63

1

1895-1984

Paul Robeson

64

1

1898-1976

Duke Ellington

65

1

1899-1974

Percy Lavon Julian

66

1

1899-1975

Louis Armstrong

67

1

1900-1971

Zora Neale Hurston

68

1

1901-1960

Roy Wilkins

69

1

1901-1981

Marian Anderson

70

1

1902-1993

Langston Hughes

71

1

1902-1967

Ralph Bunche

72

1

1904-1971

Dr. Charles R. Drew

73

1

1904-1950

Thurgood Marshall

74

1

1908-1993

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

75

1

1908-1972

Richard Wright

76

1

1908-1960

Katherine Dunham

77

1

b. 1909

Bayard Rustin

78

1

1910-1987

Rosa Parks

79

1

b. 1913

Jesse Owens

80

1

1913-1980

Kenneth B. Clark

81

1

b. 1914

Billie Holiday

82

1

1915-1959

Gwendolyn Brooks

83

1

b. 1917

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

84

1

b. 1917 and 1924

Fannie Lou Hamer

85

1

1917-1977

John H. Johnson

86

1

b. 1918

Jackie Robinson

87

1

1919-1972

Daniel ``Chappie'' James, Jr.

88

1

1920-1978

Alex Haley

89

1

1921-1992

Whitney M. Young, Jr.

90

1

1921-1971

Leon Sullivan

91

1

b. 1922

James Baldwin

92

1

1924-1987

Shirley Chisholm

93

1

b. 1924

Malcolm X

94

1

1925-1965

Harry Belafonte

95

1

b. 1927

Maya Angelou

96

1

b. 1928

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

97

1

b. 1928

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

98

1

1929-1968

Lorraine Hansberry

99

1

1930-1965

Toni Morrison

100

1

b. 1931

Bill Cosby

101

1

b. 1937

Colin Powell

102

1

b. 1937

Marian Wright Edelman

103

1

b. 1939

Wilma Rudolph

104

1

1940-1994

Bill Gray

105

1

b. 1941

Jesse Jackson

106

1

b. 1941

Muhammad Ali

107

1

b. 1942

Trivia Questions & Project Suggestions

108

2

Index

110

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