100 greatest African Americans : a biographical encyclopedia

One hundred greatest African Americans

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 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 -- Dorie Miller -- Garrett Morgan -- Toni Morrison -- Elijah Muhammad -- Jesse Owens -- Rosa Parks -- Adam Clayton Powell -- Colin Powell -- A. Philip Randolph -- Hiram Revels -- Paul Robeson -- Jackie Robinson -- John Russwurm -- Arturo Schomburg -- Benjamin "Pop" Singleton -- Mary Church Terrell.

One-hundred-and-one African-American read-aloud stories

101 African-American read-aloud stories

African-American read-aloud stories

Myths and fables: Discovery of fire -- Anansi gets what he deserves -- Why the chameleon shakes his head -- Two creation myths -- Nine wild dogs and one lion -- A home for sun and moon -- The sheep -- The suspect -- The spirit tree -- A quarrel between earth and sky -- Why people fight -- Why elephants are as intelligent as people -- Moses in Pharaoh's court -- Hunger, rice and cassava -- Indaji, the reckless hunter -- The moon king -- A quarrel between friends -- Some African proverbs -- The greedy woman becomes a woodpecker. -- Fairy tales: Baboon skins / Battle between the birds and beasts / Who can break a bad habit? / Two ways to count to ten / The fairy frog / Pemba and the python and the friendly rat / The three little eggs / The magic bones -- Timba, the dissatisfied bird.

Folk tales: Don't blame it on Adam -- The bravest of all men -- Why Brer Wasp never laughs -- Dividing the cheese -- Why the hippopotamus lives in the water -- The hyena's dinner -- Kimwaki and the weaver birds -- The 'nsasak and the odudu -- Two riddle stories : Who shall marry the chief's daughter ; Three sons of a chief -- Rooster in a huff -- How the skunk became feared -- How tortoise grew a tail -- Why worms live underground -- Wiley and the Hairy Man. -- Friends and helpers: Anansi saves antelope -- The ant and the pigeon -- Badger and otter are friends -- Help from lightning -- Lion, hare, and hyena -- The man and the bird -- The four friends. -- Hawk and chicken tales: Why hawks kill chickens -- Hawk's gift from the king -- The missing ring -- Why the hawk catches chickens / Joel Chandler Harris.

Rabbit stories: Who ate the butter? -- Why the rabbit has a short tail and long ears -- The hare, the hippo, and the elephant -- Granny, cutta the cord -- Meeting trouble -- Rabbit's horse -- Wanting a long tail -- The favorite Uncle Remus [tales] : The wonderful tar baby ; The briar patch ; The money mint ; The fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow -- How Sandy got his meat. -- Liar, fool, and tall tales: The champion liar -- Fertile land and pumpkins, potatoes, and corn : Pumpkins and potatoes ; Salt the puddin' -- The splendid liar -- Lucky shot. -- Biography: Alvin Ailey / Arthur Ashe / Ray Charles / Daniel "Chappie" James / Martin Luther King, Jr. / Rosa Parks / Colin Powell / Arthur Schomberg / Sojourner Truth

History: Black heroes of the American Revolution : William Lee ; George Latchom ; Austin Dabney ; Prince Whipple ; James Forten / African-American inventors / Stealing the planter / Mary Lincoln's dressmaker / Slavery: Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington -- The slave dancer / Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave -- My name is not Angelica / Growing up: Fast Sam, cool Clyde, and stuff / For the life of Laetitia / Sounder / The cay

Songs and poetry: The sweet and sour animal book / African-American songs: He's got the whole world in his hands ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Amazing grace ; Down by the riverside ; Get on board, little children ; This little light of mine ; Kum ba ya ; Over my head ; Take this hammer ; Miss Mary Mack Mack ; Hambone.

Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen

Kareen Abdul-Jabbar : athlete, author, public speaker - - Cato Alexander : mixologist - - Jourdan Anderson : rebel - - Madeline Anderson : producer, documentarian, director - - Maya Angelou : poet, author, activist, professor - - Amy Ashwood Garvey : activist - - Augusta Braxton Baker : librarian, teacher - - James Baldwin : author, essayist, scholar - - Edward Bannister : artist - - Jean-Michel Basquiat : artist - - Romare Bearden : artist - - 1936 Berlin Olympics athletes : athletes - - Mary McLeod Bethune : educator, college founder/president - - Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Ayọ Tometi : Black Lives Matter cofounders, activists - - Terence Blanchard : musician - - Guion Stewart Bluford : military pilot, astronaut - - J. Max Bond Jr. : architect - - Bronner Brothers : entrepreneurs - - LeRonn P. Brooks : curator, archivist - - Ralph Bunche : diplomat - - Tarana Burke : activist - - Octavia Butler : writer - - Cab Calloway : musician - - Steve Cannon : writer, publisher, mentor - - Johnnie Carr : activist - - Terri Lyne Carrington : musician - - Ben Carson : neurosurgeon, politician - - Ruth E. Carter : stylist, costume designer - - Charleston Caterers : chefs - - Leah Chase : chef, restaurateur - - Shirley Chisholm : activist, politician - - Kathleen Neal Cleaver : activist - - Mary Francis Hill Coley : midwife - - Kathleen Collins : playwright, writer, filmmaker - - John William Coltrane : musician - - Claudette Colvin : activist - - The Compton Cowboys : athletes - - Fanny Jackson Coppin : educator - - Hannah Crafts : writer - - Celia Cruz : musician - - Dorothy Dandridge : actor, performer - - Julie Dash : film director - - Charles Dawson : artist - - Daniel Day : entrepreneur, haberdasher - - Roy DeCarava : photographer - - Ruby Dee + Ossie Davis : actors, activists - - Thornton Dial : artist - - Emory Douglas : artist, graphic designer - - Frederick Douglass : activist, orator, statesman - - Paul Laurence Dunbar : writer, poet - - Katherine Dunham : choreographer, dancer - - Yla Eason : entrepreneur - - Lee Elder : athlete - - Francine Everett : actor, performer - - Abby Fisher : culinary guru - - John Stanley Ford : entrepreneur - - Aretha Franklin : musician, singer, songwriter - - Lenora Branch Fulani : activist, politician - - Althea Gibson : athlete - - Eloyce + James Gist : evangelicals, filmmakers - - Nathan "Nearest" Green : distiller - - Dick Gregory : comedian, writer, performer, activist - - Eliza Ann Grier : doctor - - Fannie Lou Hamer : activist, organizer - - Bethann Hardison : model, agent - - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : poet, author, activist - - Dorothy Height : activist - - James Hemings : chef - - Juano Hernández : actor - - Anita Hill : lawyer, professor - - Gregory Hines : actor, activist, dancer, performer - - bell hooks : writer, activist, professor - - Lena Horne : singer, actor - - Langston Hughes : writer, poet - - Zora Neale Hurston : writer, playwright, anthropologist - - Amy Jacques Garvey : activist - - Judith Jamison : dancer, choreographer, executive director - - Baby Esther Jones : performer - - Bill T. Jones : dancer, choreographer, executive director - - Grace Jones : actor, performer, model - - Jackie Joyner-Kersee : athlete - - Colin Kaepernick : athlete, activist - - Henrietta Lacks : medical pioneer - - Jacob Lawrence : artist - - Edmonia Lewis : sculptor - - Edna Lewis : culinary guru - - John Lewis : activist, politician - - Alain LeRoy Locke : writer, activist, editor - - Audre Lorde : poet - - Haki Madhubuti : poet - - Annie Turnbo Malone : entrepreneur - - 54th Massechusetts Infantry : soldiers - - Oscar Micheaux : writer, producer - - Scipio Moorhead : artist - - Toni Morrison : author, editor - - Walter Mosley : author - - Archibald Motley Jr. : artist - - Diane Nash : activist - - Nicholas Brothers : choreographers, dancers - - Satchel Paige : athlete - - Suzan-Lori Parks : playwright - - Eva Jefferson Paterson : civil rights attorney, activist - - Leah Penniman : farmer, food-justice activist - - Renee Powell : athlete - - Harriet Powers : textile artist - - Richard Pryor : comedian, performer - - Dee Rees : filmmaker --Bass Reeves : lawman - - Faith Ringgold : artist - - Minnie Riperton ; singer, performer - - Paul Robeson : actor, performer, activist - - David Ruggles : abolitionist - - Patrice Rushen : musician, composer, musical director - - Jason Samuels Smith : dancer - - Augusta Savage : sculptor - - Gil Scott-Heron : musician, activist - - Amy Sherald : artist - - Nina Simone : musician, performer, songwriter - - Norma Merrick Sklarek : architect - - Moneta Sleet Jr. : photographer - - Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor : culinary guru - - Robert F. Smith : entrepreneur, philanthropist - - André Leon Talley : fashion muse - - Robert Robinson Taylor : architect - - Mary Church Terrell : activist - - Sister Rosetta Tharpe : musician - - Mickalene Thomas : artist - - Vivien Thomas : medical pioneer, surgeon - - Toni Tipton-Martin : culinary guru - - Kwame Ture : organizer, activist - - Morrie Turner : artist, cartoonist - - Melvin Van Peebles : writer, filmmaker, producer - - Sarah Vaughan : singer, performer - - Madam C.J. Walker : entrepreneur - - Maggie Lena Walker : activist, businesswoman - - Carrie Mae Weems : photographer - - Ida B. Wells : journalist, publisher, activist - - Charles White : artist - - Maurice White : musician - - Clarence "Cap" Wigington : architect - - Raven Wilkinson : dancer - - George Washington Williams : historian, soldier, minister - - Marie Selika Williams : opera singer - - Paul Revere Williams : architect - - Bradford Young : cinematographer, director - -