George L. Lee

Worldwide Interesting People

162 History Makers of African Descent

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Selected from his newspaper feature which appeared in most major black newspapers from 1945 to 1986, this fourth installment of George L. Lee's fascinating pen and ink portraits brings together black achievers from around the globe. Arranged chronologically (from Piankhi, an Ethiopian ruler of ancient Egypt, to Andre Watts, piano virtuoso), each drawing includes a cameo biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9780786467686
• ISBN-10: 0786467681
• Artikelnr.: 35939149

Autorenporträt

The late George L. Lee was the author of several books. His works of art as well as his other published works, were originally run in a variety of newspapers.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword (by Dr. Helen E. Williams)     
Introduction     
Piankhi     
Amenhotep IV     
Cheops     
Sunni Ali     
The Marinides     
Juan Latino     
Blessed Martin De Porres     
Moulay lsmail     
Buddo     
Abraham Hannibal     
Ivan Hannibal     
Sam Fraunces     
Alessandro De' Medici     
Jean Baptiste Point Dusable     
Mons. Chevalier De St. Georges     
Phillis Wheatley     
Ira Aldridge     
William Leidesdorff     
Rudolph Dunbar     
Joseph Cinque     
Alexander Crummell     
Samuel Ringgold Ward     
Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback     
Hattie McDaniel     
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs     
D. Augustus Straker     
Menelek ll     
W. R. Pettiford     
The 'Almoravides'     
Joseph C. Jeremie     
Henry Ossawa Tanner     
Richard B. Harrison     
Charles Wood     
Col. Charles Young     
Dr. John Hope     
Lt. Comdr. Edward S. Hope     
Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois     
Dr. James E. K. Aggrey     
Charles Clinton Spaulding     
Arthur A. Schomburg     
Bert Williams     
William Stanley B. Braithwaite     
Josh Gibson     
William H. Thompkins     
Robert Penn     
Sgt. George H. Wanton     
Dr. Emmett J. Scott     
Sidney Loman     
Gen. Frank E. Petersen     
J. Finley Wilson     
Errol1 Garner     
Joel A. Rogers     
Arthur Dooley Wilson     
Mary Church Terrell     
Cong. William L. Dawson     
Marcus Gamey     
Roland Hayes     
Judge Perry B. Jackson     
Tim Moore     
Horace Pippin     
Noble Sissle     
Madame Evanti     
E. Franklin Frazier, Ph.D     
Jomo Kenyatta     
Capt. Adrian Richardson     
Dr. Charles S. Johnson     
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor     
Eugene Jacques Bullard     
James A. Bland     
Lloyd A. Hall     
Florence Mills     
Butterbeans and Susie     
William V. S. Tubman     
Walter A. Gordon     
Ada Smith Du Conge     
Bishop Bravid W. Harris     
Lt. Clarence Samuels     
Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian     
Gaston Monnerville     
J. Raymond Jones     
King Sobhuza 11     
Sir Ladapo Ademola     
Mabel Mercer     
Dr. Rufus E. Clement     
Robert Brown Elliott     
Hale Woodruff     
Albert Luthuli     
Richmond Barthe     
Marian Anderson     
Bashir Shambe     
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche     
Lord Constantine     
Clara Ward     
Felix Houphouet-Boigny     
Dr. Hastings K. Banda     
Alex Quaison-Sackey     
J. Saunders Redding     
Aubrey Pankey     
Shirley Graham Dubois     
Josephine Baker     
Russell S. Gideon     
Adam Clayton Powell     
Chester Bomar Himes     
Sir Edward W. F. Mutesa II     
Dr. Melvin H. Evans     
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah     
Art Tatum     
Teddy Wilson     
Fred Hutcherson, Jr.     
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa     
Laurian Rugambwa     
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark     
Billy Eckstine     
Frank Silvera     
Sir William Arthur Lewis     
Dr. John Hope Franklin     
June Richmond     
Maj. General Frederic E. Davison     
Mrs. Iris King     
Archie A. Alexander     
Dorothy Maynor     
Dorie Miller     
Mary Eugenia Charles     
William Warfield     
Capt. Chas L. Thomas     
Pfc. Arthur J. Broadnaux     
Dr. Joseph H. Jackson     
Maurice Cardinal Otunga     
John H. Jackson     
Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.     
Julius K. Nyerere     
Mervyn Dymally     
George L. Brown     
Bishop Harold R. Perry     
Jewel LaFontant     
Dinah Washington     
Chalky Wright     
Robert G. Mugabe     
Sammy Davis, Jr.     
Winifred Atwell     
Pfc. Jack Thomas     
Lincoln Alexander     
Hon. Lynden O. Pindling     
Mary Elizabeth Vroman     
Eartha Kitt     
Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr.     
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.     
Harry Belafonte     
Lawrence Joel     
Robert N. C. Nix     
Brock Peters     
Charles B. Rangel     
Geoffrey Holder     
Mattiwilda Dobbs     
Philippa Schuyler     
Dick Gregory     
James Brown     
Simon Estes     
Donald McHenry     
Margaret Tynes     
Robert "Bob" Marley     
Andre Watts     
Index