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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.
Cato, an enslaved African-American man who served as an American Black Patriot spy and courier gathering intelligence with his owner, Hercules Mulligan. Celia (died 1855), a woman convicted and executed for the murder of Robert Newsom, her enslaver. During the trial, John Jameson argued she had killed him in self defense to stop Newsom from ...
Louis Botha: former Prime Minister of South Africa [1] P. W. Botha: Executive State President of South Africa; Sir Johannes Brand: State President of the Orange Free State; Thomas François Burgers: State President of the South African Republic; J. B. M. Hertzog: Prime Minister of South Africa [2] F. W. de Klerk: Executive State President of ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
It includes people born in or living in the mainland United States, some of whom may be of full Puerto Rican ancestry while others only partially Puerto Rican through one parent. This list contains the names of persons who meet the Notability criteria, even if the person does not have an article yet. Additions to the list must be listed in ...
This applied to both given names and surnames. [5] [6] Paustian has argued that black names display the same themes and patterns as those in West Africa. [7] With the rise of the 1960s civil rights movement and the wider counterculture of the 1960s, there was a dramatic rise in African-American names of various origins.
Sunny Hostin – American lawyer, journalist, and television host (The View) Gwen Ifill – journalist, television newscaster and author; Iza – Brazilian pop singer; Ro James – singer; Reggie Jackson – baseball player; Shar Jackson – American actress, best known for her role as Niecy Jackson on the UPN sitcom Moesha