This stunning collection of essays illuminates the lives and legacies of the most famous and powerful individuals, groups, and institutions in African American history.
The three-volume Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries is an exhaustive treatment of 100 African American people, groups, and organizations, viewed from a variety of perspectives. The alphabetically arranged entries illuminate the history of highly successful and influential individuals who have transcended mere celebrity to become representatives of their time. It offers analysis and perspective on some of the most influential black people, organizations, and institutions in American history, from the late 19th century to the present.
Each chapter is a detailed exploration of the life and legacy of an individual icon. Through these portraits, readers will discover how these icons have shaped, and been shaped by, the dynamism of American culture, as well as the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed to the rise, and sometimes fall, of these powerful symbols of individual and group excellence.
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Icons of Black America
Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries [3 volumes]
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Photos
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Muhammad Ali
- Maya Angelou
- Apollo Theater
- Louis Armstrong
- Arthur Ashe
- Ella Baker
- Jose´phine Baker
- James Baldwin
- Charles Barkley
- Harry Belafonte
- Halle Berry
- Barry Bonds
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Ralph Bunche
- Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
- George Washington Carver
- Ray Charles
- Shirley Chisholm
- Bill Cosby
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Angela Davis
- Miles Davis
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Frederick Douglass
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Duke Ellington
- Ralph Ellison
- Louis Farrakhan
- 54th Massachusetts Infantry
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Aretha Franklin
- Marcus Garvey
- Marvin Gaye
- Nikki Giovanni
- Volume 2
- Alex Haley
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Harlem Globetrotters
- Jimi Hendrix
- Billie Holiday
- Lena Horne
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Michael Jackson
- Jay-Z
- Earvin “Magic” Johnson
- Jack Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson
- Robert L. Johnson
- Quincy Jones
- Barbara Jordan
- Michael Jordan
- Florence Griffith Joyner
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Spike Lee
- Joe Louis
- Malcolm X
- Thurgood Marshall
- Hattie McDaniel
- Morehouse College
- Toni Morrison
- Motown Records
- Elijah Muhammad
- Negro Baseball Leagues
- Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
- Barack Obama
- Michelle Obama
- Jesse Owens
- Rosa Parks
- Sidney Poitier
- Colin Powell
- Richard Pryor
- Volume 3
- A. Philip Randolph
- Ishmael Reed
- Condoleezza Rice
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- Bayard Rustin
- Dred Scott
- Tupac Shakur
- Russell Simmons
- Tommie Smith and John Carlos
- Will Smith
- Spelman College
- Mary Church Terrell
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Nat Turner
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Alice Walker
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Booker T. Washington
- Denzel Washington
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Cornel West
- Venus Williams and Serena Williams
- Oprah Winfrey
- Stevie Wonder
- Tiger Woods
- Carter G. Woodson
- Richard Wright
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Index
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