Must Read: Historical Black American Heroes - an updated list

[TruthIsAll]

Just removed from List:
BushCo PNAC Neocons (i.e. Fascists)-
Colin Powell - My Lai coverup, Gulf War Liar, U.N. WMD liar
Michael Powell - Murdoch puppet, Boob Nazi, Howard Stern destroyer
Condoleeza Rice - Oil lobbyist, token, liar, Russian "expert"

Historical Black American Heroes

Language Arts--educators, writers, poets, playwrights, journalists, orators, novelists, editors, publishers, judges/justices, actors, scholars

Lucy Terry Prince, Poet
Phillis Wheatley, Poet
Frederick Douglass, Orator
Charlotte Forten Grimke, Educator, Writer, Abolitionist
Booker T. Washington, Educator, Statesman
Ida B. Wells-Barnet, Journalist, Civil Rights Leader
W.E.B. DuBois, Author, Editor, Civil Rights Leader
Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Newspaper Editor, Civil Rights Activist
Langston Hughes, Poet
Richard Wright, Novelist
Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright
James Baldwin, Novelist, Essayist
Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Toni Morrison, Novelist, Editor
Zora Neale Hurston, Writer
Alaine Locke, Scholar
Constance Baker Motley, Lawyer/Justice
Maya Angelou, Writer, Poet

Mathematics--mathematicians, architects, astromers, businesspeople, engineers, aviators

Benjamin Banneker, Inventor, Surveyor, Astronomer, Mathematician
James Forten, Businessman, Abolitionist
Madame C.J. Walker, Cosmetics Manufacturer, Humanitarian
Bessie Coleman, Aviator
Philip Emeagwali, Computer Scientist, Engineer, Inventor, Scientist (click here to go to his Web site)

Science--scientists/researchers, physicians, astronauts, astronomers, inventors, chemists, physicists

Norbert Rillieux, Inventor
Lewis Temple, Inventor
Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Inventor
Lewis Howard Latimer, Inventor
George Washington Carver, Agricultural Scientist
Granville T. Woods, Inventor
Elijah McCoy, Inventor
Garrett A. Morgan, Inventor
Frederick McKinley Jones, Inventor
Percy Lavon Julian, Chemist
Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr., Pilot, Astronaut
Dale Emeagwali, Microbiologist
Ben Carson, Pediatric Neurosurgeon

Social Studies--leaders, civil rights activists, explorers, pioneers, legislators, soldiers, historians, judges/justices

Estevanico, Explorer
Peter Salem, American Revolutionary War Soldier
James Armistead, American Revolutionary War Spy
York, Explorer, Scout, Interpreter
James Beckwourth, Scout, Explorer, Frontiersman
Lewis Hayden, State Legislator, Abolitionist
George Washington, Pioneer and Founder of Centralia, Washington
Robert Smalls, Congressman, Civil War Hero
P.B.S. Pinchback, Congressman
George Jordan, Soldier
George Washington Williams, Soldier, Lawyer, Historian
Charles Young, Soldier
Matthew Henson, Explorer
Henry Johnson, Soldier
Ralph Bunche, Diplomat, Statesman
Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., Pilot, Four-Star General
Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Benjamin Quarles, Historian

Health--physicians, nurses, dieticians

Daniel Hale Williams, Physician, Educator
Charles Richard Drew, Surgeon, Scientist, Educator

Physical Education--athletes, physicians, cowboys,

Jesse Owens, Track-and-Field Athlete
Nat Love, Cowboy Range Rider
Joe Louis, Athlete-Boxer
Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball Player
Wilma Rudolph, Athlete, Teacher, Coach
Katherine Dunham, Dancer
Alvin Ailey, Dancer

Art--painters, cartoonists, sculptors, illustrators

Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor
Brian Pinkney, Illustrator
Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator
Ashley Bryan, Illustrator

Music--composers, singers

Scott Joplin, Pianist, Composer
William Christopher Handy, Musician, Composer
Bessie Smith, Blues Singer
Louis Armstrong, Musician, Singer, Composer
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, Musician, Composer, Bandleader
Paul Robeson, Singer, Actor, Political Activist
Marian Anderson, Opera Singer

Values/Morals/Beliefs--preachers, humanitarians, patriots, civil rights leaders/activists, educators, advocates

Crispus Attucks, Mariner, patriot
Elizabeth Freeman, Abolitionist
Richard Allen, Bishop, Abolitionist
Paul Cuffe, Humanitarian, Merchant, Mariner
Gabriel Prosser, Slave Insurrectionist
Denmark Vesey, Slave Insurrectionist
Nat Turner, Slave Insurrectionist
Madison Washington, Slave Insurrectionist
Harriet Tubman, Abolitionist
Jermain Wesley Loguen, Abolitionist
John Anthony Copeland, Jr., Abolitionist
Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist, Preacher
Mary Church Terrell, Women's Rights Advocate, Educator
Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator, Civil Rights Activist
Asa Philip Randolph, Union Organizer, Civil Rights Leader
Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist
Medgar Evers, Civil Rights Activist
Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Activist
Malcolm X, Civil Rights Leader
Roy Wilkins, Civil Rights Leader
Martin Luther, King, Jr., Preacher, Civil Rights Activist, Author
Jesse Jackson, Preacher, Civil Rights Leader
Adam Clayton Powell, Preacher, Legislator

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. I didn't see James Brown. Is that intentional?

I can see the logic in maybe leaving out George Clinton (but I wouldn't) but I'd put James in (even with the Nixon thing, and the bad behaviour)

[TruthIsAll]

2. Personally, I would like to include Screamin' Jay Hawkins..

along with:
The Eisley Brothers
Fats Domino
The Platters
Jackie Wilson
Nat King Cole
Sammy Davis Jr.
Ella Fitzgerald
Harry Belafonte
Lena Horne
Dinah Washington
Willie Mays
Muhammad Ali
Hank Aaron
Sugar Ray Robinson

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. No further questions, your honour.

Good call.

[goclark]

4. Is This Your List?

I have had an extremely hard day. :)

Is this your list or someone Else's? Either way I like the list very much.

My favorite part is the three traitors that were removed. They don't deserve to be listed. Don't forget, Clarence Thomas should not be included as well.

I keep thinking that I will wake up from a bad dream and all four of them will have realized how much pain they bring to our race. So much potential put to no good use.

[TruthIsAll]

5. Not my list. Here's a link

http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips/lt36.htm

[rinsd]

6. After reading the link.....stop making shit up.

The list doesn't include the Powells(sans Adam Clayton) or Rice. And likely never did.

Don't make a site political that puts itself out as an educational resource.

[Duncan Grant]

7. Let's add a few artists to the list.

Romare Bearden, William H. Johnson, Henry O. Tanner

more here: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Af-am2.htm

:kick:

edit: clarity

[masmdu]

8. Franklin McCain ... Started the Sit-ins at the Woolworth's Lunch Counter

Where is he?

[Faygo Kid]

9. Where's Muhammad Ali? Where's John Lewis?

The list is too long. You can't list them all - and many anonymously built this country, just like all races (with the special caveat that black Americans built it under unique - to say the least - circumstances).

[keithyboy]

10. There is even more black history out there that most Americans don't

know about. If the questions about black history were part of the SAT, few would be able to score above 900.