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The African-American/Black Diaspora
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Contents
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE Preliminary Remarks |
| PART I: | A VISIT TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WORLD The United States of America/ WS1 The United States Capitals/ WS2 Major African-American Churches/ WS3 Major African-American Churches/ WS4 Fifty Major Radio Stations (1)/ WS5 Fifty Major Radio Stations (2)/ WS6 Major Television Stations/ WS7 Forty Colleges and Universities/ WS8 Forty Colleges and Universities/ WS9 Winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor/ WS10 Firsts in History and Politics/ WS11 Top Women Architects/ WS12 Black Women of Valor (1)/ WS13 Black Women of Valor (2)/WS14 Extraordinary Black Americans (1)/WS15 Extraordinary Black Americans (2)/WS16 Extraordinary Black Americans (3)/ WS17 Educators (1)/ WS18 Educators (2)/ WS19 Educators (3)/ WS20 College and University Presidents (1)/WS21 College and University Presidents (2)/WS22 Judges and Lawyers (1)/ WS23 Judges and Lawyers (2)/ WS24 Fifty Years of Blacks in Medicine (1)/ WS25 Fifty Years of Blacks in Medicine (2)/ WS26 Blacks in Science and Technology/ WS27 Inventors and Scientists (1)/ WS28 Inventors and Scientists (2)/ WS29 Top TV Hunks/ WS30 Twenty-six African-American Newspapers/WS31 Happy Birthday!/ WS32 Civil Rights Leaders (1)/ WS33 Civil Rights Leaders (2)/ WS34 Philanthropists/ WS35 Journalists/ WS36 Writers/ WS37 Writers/ WS38 Major Artists/ WS39 Musicians and Composers (1)/ WS40 Musicians and Composers (2)/ WS41 Giants of Music (1)/ WS42 Giants of Music (2)/ WS43 Jazz Immortals/ WS44 Singers (1)/ WS45 Singers (2)/ WS46 Singers (3)/ WS47 Ten At the Top of Hip Hop/ WS48 Actors and Actresses (1)/ WS49 Actors and Actresses (2)/ WS50 Filmmakers (1)/ WS51 Filmmakers (2)/ WS52 Filmmakers (3)/ WS53 Top Blacks in the Entertainment Industry (1)/ WS54 Top Blacks in the Entertainment Industry (2)/ WS55 Winners of the AAIAL Awards/WS56 Winners of the Tony Award (1)/ WS57 Winners of the Tony Award (2)/ WS58 Of Fashion and Beauty/ WS59 Firsts in Sports/ WS60 Greatest African-American Boxers/ WS61 In the Baseball Hall of Fame (1)/ WS62 In the Baseball Hall of Fame (2)/ WS63 In the Professional Football Hall of Fame (1)/ WS64 In the Professional Football Hall of Fame (2)/ WS65 Winners of the Heisman Trophy/ WS66 Ten Top Olympic Moments/ WS67 Olympic Black Women./ WS68 Presidents in Fortune 500 Companies/ WS69 Diplomats and Consuls/ WS70 Crusaders with Pen and Ink/ WS71 One Hundred Women Who Made a Difference (1)/ WS72 One Hundred Women Who Made a Difference (2)/ WS73 Fifty Who Changed America (1)/ WS74 Fifty Who Changed America (2)/ WS75 Fifty Who Changed America (3)/ WS76 The Most Important African-American Women of the Last Fifty Years/ WS77 The 100+ Most Influential List (1)/ WS78 The 100+ Most Influential List (2)/ WS79 The 100+ Most Influential List (3)/ WS80 African-Americans on U.S. Postage Stamps (1)/ WS81 African-Americans on U.S. Postage Stamps (2)/ WS82 Major Historic Landmarks (1)/ WS83 Major Historic Landmarks (2)/ WS84 Major Historic Landmarks (3)/ WS85 Black History: Prophets and Custodians/ WS86 Symbols and Principles of Kwanzaa/ WS87 Black Women Firsts/ WS8 |
| PART 2: | A VISIT TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BLACK DIASPORA Countries of Africa/ WS89 Population: Ten Million or More/ WS90 They Gained Independence After Nineteen Forty-Five (1)/ WS91 They Gained Independence After Nineteen Forty-Five (2)/ WS92 They Joined the United Nations in Nineteen . . . (1)/ WS93 They Joined the United Nations in Nineteen . . . (2)/ WS94 African Capitals/ WS95 Currencies of Africa/ WS96 Africa’s Monetary Fractional Units/ WS97 Africa’s Chief Crops (1)/ WS98 Africa’s Chief Crops (2)/ WS99 Africa’s Minerals (1)/ WS100 Africa’s Minerals (2)/ WS101 Wonders of Africa/ WS102 Africa’s High Mountains, Notable Deserts, and Notable Active Volcanoes/ WS103 Africa’s Major Natural Lakes and Famous Waterfalls/ WS104 Dialing an African Embassy in Washington, DC/ WS105 African and Afro-Caribbean Writers (1)/ WS106 African and Afro-Caribbean Writers (2)/ WS107 World’s Great Men of Color (1)/ WS108 World’s Great Men of Color (2)/ WS109 World’s Great Men of Color (3)/ WS110 |
| ANSWER KEY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX NOTES Comments? Suggestions? About the Artwork |
| WORD SEARCH 17 | WORD LIST: 72 entries |
EXTRAORDINARY BLACK AMERICANS (3)* |
| R S ABBOTT M ALI M ANDERSON L ARMSTRONG J BALDWIN I B W-BARNETT M M BETHUNE E BLAIR JR G S BLUFORD R BUNCHE J CARLOS S CARMICHAEL G W CARVER C R DREW W E B DUBOIS E ECKFORD E K ELLINGTON M EVERS J FARMER M GARVEY F L HAMER W C HANDY L HANSBERRY M A HENSON |
L HUGHES J JACKSON D JAMES JR H JOHNSON F M JONES S JOPLIN G JORDAN P L JULIAN M L KING JR L H LATIMER J LEWIS LITTLE ROCK NINE J LOUIS T MARSHALL F MCCLAIN E MCCOY F MCKISSICK J MCNEIL G A MORGAN T MORRISON J OWENS BLACK PANTHERS R PARKS |
P B S PINCHBACK UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A P RANDOLPH D RICHMOND FREEDOM RIDERS P ROBESON J ROBINSON W RUDOLPH B RUSTIN BLACK SEMINOLES R SMALLS B SMITH CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS M C TERRELL S TRUTH SLAVE UPRISINGS C J WALKER R WILKINS D H WILLIAMS G W WILLIAMS G T WOODS R WRIGHT MX C YOUNG |
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*Susan R. Altman, Extraodinary Black Americans from Colonial to Contemporary |
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01. Aaron, Hank Louis (1934-); retired baseball player who hit more homeruns in a career than any other player in the major leagues; WS63/74 02. Abbott, Robert Sengstacke (1870-1940); WS17/32 03. Abernathy, Ralph David (1926-); civil rights leader; clergyman; WS32/33 04. Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (1947-); famous basketball player whose
former name 05. Abraha (c. 350 A.D.); king of Ethiopia (NE Africa); WS108 06. Abraham (19th century); escaped slave ; advisor (negotiator
for the Seminole 07. Abraham, Peter Lee (1919-); novelist; poet, story writer (S. Africa); WS107 08. Achebe, Chinua (1930-); novelist; poet; story writer (Nigeria,WC Africa); WS107 09. Adams, Numa Pompilius Garfield (1885-1940); educator;
physician (neurologist); 10. Adderly, Herb (1939-); musician (trumpeter); WS64 11. Aesop (c. 560 B.C.); fabulist and wiseman of the East; WS108 12. Ahmed, Mohammed (1848-1885); a.k.a. "The Mahdi" or
Liberator of Sudan 13. Aidoo, Ama Christina Ata (1942-); playwright; poet; story
writer 14. Aiken, Kimberly Clarice (1975-); Miss America (1994); WS59 15. Akhenaton (c. 1350 B.C.); king of Egypt (NE Africa); WS108 16. Al-Arsham, Abraha (died in 569 A.D.); king of Ethiopia (NE Africa) and Yemen
17. Albright, Robert (?); president of the Johnson C. Smith University (N Carolina); WS22 18. Aldridge, Ira Frederick (1810?-1867); Shakespearean actor (England); WS49/109 19. Alexander, Jr., Clifford L. (1933-); lawyer; governmental official; WS23 20. Alexander, Sadie M. (?); first Ph.D. black woman graduate of a U.S.
university 21. Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossel (1898-); lawyer; civil rights activist; WS23 |