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Check out our selection of over 300 articles from premier reference company Encyclopaedia Britannica on leading African Americans and the events that defined African American history . a Hank Aaron Kareem Abdul Jabbar Ralph Abernathy Alvin Ailey Muhammad Ali Richard Allen Marian Anderson Maya Angelou Louis Armstrong Arthur Ashe Crispus Attucks b Pearl Bailey Josephine Baker James Baldwin Ella Baker Toni Cade Bambara Benjamin Banneker Amiri Baraka Count Basie Jean-Michel Basquiat Daisy Bates Kathleen Battle Romare Bearden Harry Belafonte Gwendolyn Bennett Chuck Berry Mary Frances Berry Eubie Blake Julian Bond Arna Bontemps Edward William Brooke Gwendolyn Brooks James Brown John Brown Ron Brown William Wells Brown Blanche Bruce Ralph Bunche c Cab Calloway Stokely Carmichael George Washington Carver Elizabeth Catlett Wilt Chamberlain Charles Chesnutt Shirley Chisholm Joseph Cinque Kenneth Bancroft Clark Eldridge Cleaver Nat King Cole Bessie Coleman John Coltrane Bill Cosby Alexander Crummell Countee Cullen d Dorothy Dandridge Angela Davis Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Ossie Davis Miles Davis Ruby Dee Gail Devers Thomas Andrew Dorsey Frederick Douglass Rita Dove Charles Richard Drew W.E.B. Du Bois Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable Paul Laurence Dunbar Katherine Dunham e Marion Wright Edelman Duke Ellington Ralph Ellison Julius Erving Medgar Evers f James Farmer Louis Farrakhan Jessie Redmon Fauset Ella Fitzgerald T. Thomas Fortune Aretha Franklin Jean Hope Franklin E. Franklin Frazier Joe Frazier Morgan Freeman g Henry Highland Garnet William Lloyd Garrison Marcus Garvey Althea Gibson Dizzy Gillespie Nikki Giovanni Whoopi Goldberg Berry Gordy, Jr. Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield h Clara Hale Alex Haley Fannie Lou Hamer W. C. Handy Lorraine Hansberry Dorothy Height Sally Hemings Jimi Hendrix Matthew Henson Billie Holiday bell hooks Lena Horne Charles Hamilton Houston Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston i No entries j Jesse Jackson Mahalia Jackson Michael Jackson Reggie Jackson Judith Jamison Blind Lemon Jefferson Mae Jemison Charles S. Johnson Jack Johnson James Weldon Johnson John Johnson Magic Johnson Michael Johnson Robert Johnson James Earl Jones Marion Jones Quincy Jones Scott Joplin Barbara Jordan Michael Jordan Florence Griffith Joyner Jackie Joyner-Kersee Percy L. Julian k B.B. King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King, Jr. l Nella Larsen Lewis Latimer Jacob Lawrence Leadbelly Spike Lee Carl Lewis Edmonia Lewis Alain Leroy Locke Audre Lorde Joe Louis Toussaint L'Ouverture m Wynton Marsalis Thurgood Marshall Benjamin Mays Willie Mays Mary McLeod Bethune Hattie McDaniel Claude McKay Oscar Micheaux Arthur Mitchell Thelonious Monk Toni Morrison Jelly Roll Morton Carol Moseley-Braun Elijah Muhammad Albert Murray n Gloria Naylor Huey P. Newton Jessye Norman o Jesse Owens p Satchel Paige Charlie Parker Gordon Parks Rosa Parks Walter Payton P. B. S. Pinchback Sidney Poitier Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Colin Powell Leontyne Price Pearl Primus Gabriel Prosser Richard Pryor q No entries r Joseph Rainey Ma Rainey A. Philip Randolph Bernice Johnson Reagon Otis Redding Hiram Rhoades Revel Jerry Rice Norbert Rillieux Paul Robeson Bill Robinson Jackie Robinson Sugar Ray Robinson Wilma Rudolph Bill Russell Bayard Rustin s Sonia Sanchez Augusta Savage Bobby Seale Betty Shabazz Ntozake Shange Al Sharpton Fred Lee Shuttlesworth O.J. Simpson Pap Singleton Robert Smalls Bessie Smith Leon Sullivan t Henry O. Tanner Lucy Terry Mary Church Terrell Clarence Thomas Jean Toomer Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Ike Turner Nat Turner Tina Turner Cicely Tyson u No entries v James Van Der Zee Sarah Vaughan Denmark Vesey w Alice Walker David Walker Madam C.J. Walker T. Bone Walker Booker T. Washington Denzel Washington Ethel Waters Robert Clifton Weaver Ida Barnett-Wells Phillis Wheatley Walter White Roy Wilkins Bert Williams Daniel Hale Williams George Washington Williams Venus Williams August Wilson Harriet Wilson Oprah Winfrey Carter G. Woodson Stevie Wonder Tiger Woods Richard Wright x Malcolm X y Andrew Young Whitney Moore Young, Jr. z No entries a Abolitionism Affirmative Action African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church American Anti-Slavery Society American Colonization Society American Negro Theater Amistad Mutiny Apollo Theatre Associated Negro Press Atlanta Compromise b Bebop Black Panther Party Black Code Black History Month Black Power Movement Blues Brown vs. Board of Education Buffalo Soldier c Chicago Defender Civil Rights Act Civil Rights movement Civil War Congress of Racial Equality The Crisis d Dred Scott Decision e East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917 Ebony Emancipation Proclamation f Fisk University Freedom Riders Freedmen's Bureau 54th Massachussetts Regiment Fort Pillow Massacre Fugitive Slave Acts Freedom's Journal g Gag Rule Gospel Music Grandfather Clause The Great Migration Gullah h Harlem Globetrotters Harlem Renaissance Howard University i No entries j Jazz Jim Crow k Ku Klux Klan Kwanzaa l Little Rock Nine m March on Washington Million Man March Minstrel Show Missouri Compromise Modern Jazz Quartet Montgomery Bus Boycott Morehouse College Motown n National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, Inc. National Council of Negro Women National Urban League Nation of Islam Negro Baseball League Niagara Movement o No entries p Plessy v. Ferguson Poll Tax q No entries r Ragtime Rap Reconstruction Red Summer Rhythm and Blues s Scottsboro Case Segregation Selma to Montgomery March Sharecropping Sit-in Movement Slavery Soul Music Southern Christian Leadership Conference Spelman College Spirituals Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee t Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Tuskegee University u Uncle Tom's Cabin Underground Railroad United Negro College Fund Universal Negro Improvement Association v Voting Rights Act w No entries x No entries y No entries z No entries