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100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
- Molefi Kete Asante
- 2002
The Root's annual list of the most influential African Americans in the fields of arts, community, business, entertainment, media, politics, science and sports.
- Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Congress is more diverse now than it's ever been. However, when Chisholm was attempting to shatter the glass ceiling, the same couldn't be said.
- Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) Dr. King is usually credited for the March on Washington in August 1963. But it was Rustin who organized and strategized in the shadows.
- Claudette Colvin (1939- ) Before Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, there was a brave 15-year-old who chose not to sit at the back of the bus.
- Annie Lee Cooper (1910-2010) The Selma, Alabama, native played a crucial part in the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement. But it wasn't until Oprah played her in the 2014 Oscar-nominated film Selma that people really took notice of Cooper's activism.
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The most influential African. Americans in 2020. The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45. It’s our way of honoring the innovators, the...
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Feb 13, 2019 · Mathematician Mary Jackson, the first black woman engineer at NASA, poses for a photo at the NASA Langley Research Center on Jan. 7, 1980, in Hampton, Virginia. Lee Jaffe / Getty Images. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat works on a painting while on a trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 1983. Dave Hogan / Getty Images.
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