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Strong men keep coming : the book of African American men / Tonya Bolden ; foreword by Herb Boyd.

Title
Strong men keep coming : the book of African American men / Tonya Bolden ; foreword by Herb Boyd.
Author
Bolden, Tonya
Publication
New York : J. Wiley & Sons, 1999.

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Additional Authors
Boyd, Herb, 1938-
Description
xi, 308 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
Presents biographical sketches of notable African American men, from their earliest arrival in this country to the present time.
Subject
African American men > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Jiro -- Anthony Johnson -- Coffee -- Broteer -- Crispus Attucks -- Salem Poor -- Amos Fortune -- Andrew Bryan -- Benjamin Banneker -- Tom Molineaux -- Bilali Mohammed -- Abraham Camp -- James Forten -- Thomas L. Jennings -- Devany -- Ira Aldridge -- Patrick Henry Reason -- William Henry Lane -- Robert the Hermit -- David Walker -- Nat Turner -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Josiah Henson -- James McCune Smith -- Jim Beckwourth -- William C. Nell -- William Still -- J.P. Ball -- Dred Scott -- James Boon -- Dangerfield Newby -- George Moses Horton -- Gordon -- Robert Smalls -- William H. Carney -- High John the Conqueror -- Jourdon Anderson -- Isaac Myers -- John Henry -- Nat Love -- George Washington -- Sydenham Porter -- John Childers -- Robert Brown Elliott -- Edward M. Bannister.
  • Lewis Adams -- Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- John Merrick -- Stagolee -- Johnson Chesnutt Whittaker -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Homer Plessy -- Robert Charles -- Granville T. Woods -- William Drew Robeson -- Booker T. Washington -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- William Monroe Trotter -- Laurence C. Jones -- Oscar Micheaux -- Dave Dinwiddie -- Roland Hayes -- James Edward McCall -- Carter G. Woodson -- Thomas A Dorsey -- Richard Samuel Roberts -- The Scottsboro Boys -- Ernest Everett Just -- Carl Murphy -- Lorenzo Dow Turner -- Jackson Jordan, Jr. -- The Black boys of summer -- The Nicholas Brothers -- Jacob Lawrence -- Chester Himes -- Charlie Parker -- Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. -- A. Philip Randolph -- Paul R. Williams -- Benson L. Dutton -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Vernon Johns.
  • Emmett Till -- Bob Moses -- Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Woody Strode -- Berry Gordy -- John Oliver Killens -- Gordon Parks -- Robert Hayden -- John Henrik Clarke -- Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. -- Amiri Baraka -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos -- Curt Flood -- Fred Hampton -- Blood -- Arthur Ashe -- Reginald F. Lewis -- Matel Dawson, Jr. -- Tom Feelings -- Randall Robinson -- Jesse Jackson -- Molefi Kete Asante -- Charles Johnson -- Donald Bogle -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- The Million Men.
ISBN
0471252026 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98041699^
OCLC
  • 39739756
  • SCSB-13243732
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library