The African-American century
Subtitle: how Black Americans have shaped our country
By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West.
Contributors: West, Cornel.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: African Americans -- Biography; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Civilization -- Afro-American influences; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-402) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1900-1909. W.E.B. Dubois ; T. Thomas Fortune ; Matthew Henson ; Jack Johnson ; Scott Joplin ; Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Madame C.J. Walker ; Booker T. Washington ; Ida B. Wells Barnett ; Bert Williams; title: 1910-1919. Mary McLeod Bethune ; George Washington Carver ; Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. ; Thomas A. Dorsey ; W.C. Handy ; James Weldon Johnson ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Charles Henry Turner ; Jimmy Winkfield ; Carter G. Woodson; title: 1920-1929. Louis Armstrong ; Junius Austin ; Josephine Baker ; Bessie Coleman ; Marcus Garvey ; Langston Hughes ; Ernest Everett Just ; Oscar Micheaux ; Bessie Smith ; Jean Toomer; title: 1930-1939. Marian Anderson ; Sterling A. Brown ; Father Divine ; Charles Hamilton Houston ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Robert Johnson ; Joe Louis ; Jesse Owens ; Paul Robeson ; Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; title: 1940-1949. Charles R. Drew ; Katherine Dunham ; Duke Ellington ; Billie Holiday ; Lena Horne ; Jacob Lawrence ; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ; A. Philip Randolph ; Jackie Robinson ; Richard Wright; title: 1950-1959. Ralph Bunche ; Nat "King" Cole ; Miles Davis ; Ralph Ellison ; Althea Gibson ; Lorraine Hansberry ; Willie Mays ; Rosa Parks ; Art Tatum ; Sarah Vaughan; title: 1960-1969. Muhammad Ali ; James Baldwin ; John Coltrane ; Angela Davis ; Fannie Lou Hamer ; Jimi Hendrix ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Thurgood Marshall ; Sidney Poitier ; Malcolm X; title: 1970-1979. Hank Aaron ; Maya Angelou ; Romare Bearden ; James Brown ; Marvin Gaye ; Barbara Harris ; Dorothy Height ; Barbara Jordan ; Leontyne Price ; Richard Pryor; title: 1980-1989. Alvin Ailey ; Bill Cosby ; John Hope Franklin ; Jesse Jackson ; Michael Jackson ; Carl Lewis ; Jessye Norman ; Martin Puryear ; Alice Walker ; August Wilson; title: 1990-1999. Louis Farrakhan ; Michael Jordan ; Spike Lee ; Wynton Marsalis ; Toni Morrison ; Colin Powell ; Tupac Shakur ; Denzel Washington ; Oprah Winfrey ; Tiger Woods.