
Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
The classic collection of black biographies
Paper – $39
978-0-252-00939-6
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1982
About the Book
In Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, two leading authorities on black history in America joined with other experts to create an essential volume on the achievements of fifteen twentieth-century black leaders--men and women who came from religion, labor, business, the professions, and the arts.The biographical studies include:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., by David L. Lewis
- Malcolm X, by Peter Goldman
- Booker T. Washington, by Louis R. Harlan
- W.E. B. Du Bois, by Elliott Rudwick
- A. Philip Randolph, by Benjamin Quarles
- Mary McLeod Bethune by B. Joyce Ross
- T. Thomas Fortune, by Emma Lou Thornbrough
- Marcus Garvey, by Lawrence W. Levine
- Charles Hamilton Houston, by Genna Rae McNeil
- James Welson Johnson, by Eugen Levy
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., by Martin Kilson
- Charles Clinton Spaulding, by Walter Weare
- Mabel K. Staupers, by Darlene Clark Hine
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, by Thomas C. Holt
- Whitney M. Young, Jr., by Nancy J. Weiss
About the Author
John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) was John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His books include: From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans; Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North; and Racial Equality in America. August Meier (1923-2003) was University Professor Emeritus at Kent State University. He is the author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 and coauthor of From Plantation to Ghetto.Also by this author
