Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Boyd, Herb, 1938-

Description

1. xi, 308 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Presents biographical sketches of notable African American men, from their earliest arrival in this country to the present time.

Subject

1. African American men > Biography

Genre/Form

1. Biographies

Contents

1. Jiro -- Anthony Johnson -- Coffee -- Broteer -- Crispus Attucks -- Salem Poor -- Amos Fortune -- Andrew Bryan -- Benjamin Banneker -- Tom Molineaux -- Bilali Mohammed -- Abraham Camp -- James Forten -- Thomas L. Jennings -- Devany -- Ira Aldridge -- Patrick Henry Reason -- William Henry Lane -- Robert the Hermit -- David Walker -- Nat Turner -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Josiah Henson -- James McCune Smith -- Jim Beckwourth -- William C. Nell -- William Still -- J.P. Ball -- Dred Scott -- James Boon -- Dangerfield Newby -- George Moses Horton -- Gordon -- Robert Smalls -- William H. Carney -- High John the Conqueror -- Jourdon Anderson -- Isaac Myers -- John Henry -- Nat Love -- George Washington -- Sydenham Porter -- John Childers -- Robert Brown Elliott -- Edward M. Bannister.
2. Lewis Adams -- Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- John Merrick -- Stagolee -- Johnson Chesnutt Whittaker -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Homer Plessy -- Robert Charles -- Granville T. Woods -- William Drew Robeson -- Booker T. Washington -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- William Monroe Trotter -- Laurence C. Jones -- Oscar Micheaux -- Dave Dinwiddie -- Roland Hayes -- James Edward McCall -- Carter G. Woodson -- Thomas A Dorsey -- Richard Samuel Roberts -- The Scottsboro Boys -- Ernest Everett Just -- Carl Murphy -- Lorenzo Dow Turner -- Jackson Jordan, Jr. -- The Black boys of summer -- The Nicholas Brothers -- Jacob Lawrence -- Chester Himes -- Charlie Parker -- Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. -- A. Philip Randolph -- Paul R. Williams -- Benson L. Dutton -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Vernon Johns.
3. Emmett Till -- Bob Moses -- Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Woody Strode -- Berry Gordy -- John Oliver Killens -- Gordon Parks -- Robert Hayden -- John Henrik Clarke -- Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. -- Amiri Baraka -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos -- Curt Flood -- Fred Hampton -- Blood -- Arthur Ashe -- Reginald F. Lewis -- Matel Dawson, Jr. -- Tom Feelings -- Randall Robinson -- Jesse Jackson -- Molefi Kete Asante -- Charles Johnson -- Donald Bogle -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- The Million Men.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain