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<p>Dr. Columbus Salley has selected the one hundred most influential African-Americans of all time and then ranked them according to their contributions to cultures worldwide and the struggle for equality.<P>From Dr. Martin Luther King (1) and Harriet Tubman (12) to Louis Armstrong (68) and Arthur Ashe (98), here are the one hundred who have fundamentally altered the ways in which millions of Americans -- of all colors -- live in our society.<P>For each of the one hundred, Dr. Salley provides a biographical sketch and an account of the reasons for each individual's rank.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A useful collection of mini-profiles of black American leaders in the struggle for equality, this book is marred by the author's admittedly unscientific attempt to rank his subjects by importance. Salley ( What Color Is Your God? Black Consciousness and the Christian Faith ) places Martin Luther King Jr. first and Frederick Douglass second, but overemphasizes certain leaders of the colonial period: the founders of the Free African Society and the Negro Masonic Order are rated well ahead of Thurgood Marshall and Malcolm X. The profiles are usually fair-minded, but Salley sanitizes a f

Author

Salley, Columbus

Publisher

Kensington Publishing Corporation

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806515502

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir