Critical analysis of a famous African American from the list provided on Blackboard. In this assignment you will provide a developed close reading that examines one of the themes the course has outlined as it applies to the person chosen. How did/does this person effected the critical theme for the African American community? How did/do they affect the working definition of African American, black, and/or blackness within and without the community?
List:
Dr. Paul Murray
- Bessie Coleman
- Jean-Bapiste Belley
- Harriet Elizabeth Brown
- Monte Irvin
- Shirley Graham Dubois
- Vernon Dahmer
- Hale Woodruff
- Jo Ann Robinson
- Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson
- Dr. Francis Cress Welsing
- Dr. Kenneth Clark
- Amy Jacques Garvey
- Ophelia DeVore
- Augusta Fells Savage
- Eugene Jacques Bullard
- Bobby Timmons
- Clyde Kennard
- Madison Washington
- Joseph Winters
- Sam Sharpe
- Joseph Rainey
- Bessie Stringfield
- DJ Kool Herc
- Lonnie Clayton
- Mrs. Mamie Lang Kirkland
- Lucius Septimius Bassianus
- Carolyn Gudger
- Jasmine Twitty
- Daisy Bates
- Ella Jenkins
- Lewis Henry Douglass
- Cynthia Robinson
- Sylvester Magee
- Mabel Fairbanks
- Cathay Williams
- Clara Belle Williams
- John Baxter Taylor Jr.
- Anna J. Cooper
- The Black Seminoles
- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
- Matthew Williams
- Phillipa Schuyler
- Yarrow Mamout
- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- Frank E. Petersen
- "Miss Maggie" Walker
- Paul Robeson
- Olivia J. Hooker
- Dr. Henry T Sampson
- Lovie Yancy
- Willie James Howard
- Toni Stone (Marcenia Lyle Alberga)
- Lucien Victor Alexis
- Mevinia Sheilds
- Dr. Lonnie Smith
- Rosewood
- Miss Jane Pittman
- Lucy Terry
- Abraham Galloway
- Thomas Jennings
- Irene Morgan
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- Jean Toomer
- Doris Payne
- Ann Petry
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Dr. May Edward Chinn
- Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
- Karen Bass
- Dr. Dorothy Height
- Dr. Geneva Smitherman
- Michae¨lle Jean
- Robin Kelly
- Mary Macleod Bethune
- Jane Bolin
- Donna Edwards
- Dame Eugenia Charles
- Dr. Thomas Elkins
- Wilma Rudolph
- Annie Malone
- Ann Lowe
- Black Wall Street
- Cathy Hughes
- Kamala Harris
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Sarah Rector
- Ruth Simmons
- Claudette Colvin
- MC Lyte
- Benajin Banneker
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
- Thurgood Marshall
- Doris "Dorie" Miller
- Cecil Noble
- WC Handy
- Dorothy Counts
- Bayard Rustin
- Dr. Eliza Ann Grier
- Matthew Henson
- Jesse Owens
- Nina Simone
- Wendell Scott
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Percy Julian
- Dr. Charles Drew
- Thomas "Fats" Waller
- Satchel Paige
- Bass Reeves
- Marian Anderson
- Josephine Baker
- Joe Louis
- Walter White
- William Hastie
- Elijah McCoy
- Jan Matzelger
- Lewis Latimer
- Granville T. Woods
- Fred Jones
- Nella Larsen
- Lloyd Hall
- A. Philip Randolph
- Althea Gibson
- Barbara C. Jordon
- Marcus Garvey
- Malcolm X
- James Meridith
- Guy Buford
- Hazel Scott
- Stokely Carmichal
- Denmark Vessey
- Alex Haley
- Virginia Hamilton
- Ishmael Reed
- Nalo Hopkinson
- George Schuyler
- Patricia Roberts Harris
- John Lewis
- Les McCann
- Martin Delany
- Derek Walcott
- Carter Godwin Woodson
- Alvin Ailey
- Debbie Allen
- Ralph Abernathy
- Arthur Ashe
- Crispus Attucks
- Amiri Baraka
- Sekou Sundiata
- Count Basie
- Bud Powell
- James "Cool Papa" Bell
- Pfc. Sarah Louise Keys
- Josh Gibson
- Harry Belafonte
- Ruby Bridges
- The Little Rock 9
- The Scottsboro Boys
- Ralph Bunche
- Cab Calloway
- Louis Jordan
- Emmett Till
- Kenneth B. Clarke
- Alice Coltrane
- Scatman Crothers
- Nipsy Russell
- Dorothy Dandrige
- Ruby Dee
- Miles Davis
- "Fats" Domino
- Ralph Ellison
- Duke Ellington
- Medgar Evers
- The Watts Prophets
- Dick Gregory
- The Greensboro Four
- Archie Shepp
- Gregory Hines
- John Lee Hooker
- bell hooks
- Roy Innis
- Eartha Kitt
- Nichelle Nichols
- Hattie McDaniel
- Butterfly McQueen
- Thelonius Monk
- Garrett Morgan
- Walter Mosley
- Odetta
- Gordon Parks
- Dr. Joseph Lowery
- Homer Plessy
- Gabriel Prosser
- Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
- Norbert Rillieux
- Oscar Peterson
- Esther Rolle
- Robert Smalls
- Wallace Thurman
- Maxine Waters
- Daniel Hale Williams
- August Wilson
- Cassandra Wilson
- Richard Wright
- Howlin' Wolf
- Andrew Young
- James Van Der Zee
- B.K. Bruce
- Aaron Douglas
- Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable
- Estevancio
- Sarah S. Goode
- Mae C. Jemison
- Jacob Lawrence
- Ella Baker
- Minnie Joycelyn Elders
- Esther Jones
- Frances Harper
- Harriet Wilson
- Scott Joplin
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Elijah McCoy
Themes of the course are attached (community, call/response), choose one of the people above, and help me to write a two to three pages MLA essay about how this people affect the theme.