Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it / [edited by] Herb Boyd.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boyd, Herb, 1938-
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 2000.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > History > Sources.
African Americans > Biography.
Genre:
Sources.
Biography.
Physical Description:xviii, 549 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1710-?)
  • Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
  • Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
  • Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)
  • John Cuffe (c.1755-?)
  • Richard Allen (1760-1831)
  • Old Elizabeth (1766-?)
  • Jupiter Hammon (c.1711-1806)
  • Belinda (c. 1717-?)
  • Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
  • Prince Hall (1748-1797)
  • Jenny Proctor (c. 1845-?)
  • Peter Williams (?-1849)
  • Abd ar-Rahman (c. 1790-?)
  • Austin Steward (1793-1860)
  • Nat Turner (1800-1831)
  • Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882)
  • Harriet Jacobs (1815?-1897)
  • Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
  • John Parker (1827-1900)
  • Osborne Anderson (1830-1872)
  • Mattie J. Jackson (1800-?)
  • William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
  • Robert Purvis (1810-1898)
  • Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
  • Elizabeth Keckley (1824-1907)
  • John Boston (c. 1842-?)
  • Charlotte Forten (1837-1914)
  • Ann (c. 1835-?)
  • Octave Johnson (1840-?)
  • Patsey Leach (1843-?)
  • John Mercer Langston (1829-1879)
  • Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
  • Samuel Larkin (c. 1840-?)
  • John R. Lynch (1847-1939)
  • Booker T. Washington (1857?-1915)
  • Lewis Latimer (1848-1928)
  • Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915)
  • Anna Julia Cooper (1858/9-1964)
  • Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
  • Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
  • James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
  • W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963)
  • Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
  • Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
  • Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941)
  • Jack Johnson (1878-1946)
  • Ethel Waters (1896-1977)
  • Addie Hunton (1875-1943)
  • Harry Haywood (1898-1985)
  • Era Bell Thompson (1906-1986)
  • Dorothy West (1909-1998)
  • Richard Wright (1908-1960)
  • Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
  • Langston Hughes (1898-1967)
  • Howard "Stretch" Johnson (1915-)
  • Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
  • Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
  • Nate Shaw (c. 1900-)
  • Haywood Patterson (1913-1952)
  • James Cameron (1914-)
  • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908-1972)
  • Conrad Lynn (1908-1995)
  • Marian Anderson (1900-1993)
  • Nelson Peery (1923-)
  • Althea Gibson (1927-)
  • A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
  • Clarence Atkins (1922-)
  • Charles Denby (1907-1983)
  • Maya Angelou (1928-)
  • Coleman Young (1918-1998)
  • Curtis Morrow (1933-)
  • Jane (1914-)
  • Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
  • Sunnie Wilson (1908-1999)
  • Coretta Scott King (1927-)
  • Constance Baker Motley (1921-)
  • Rosa Parks (1913-)
  • Ella Baker (1903-1986)
  • James Forman (1928-)
  • Melba Pattillo Beals (1942-)
  • Ossie Davis (1917-) and Ruby Dee (1924-)
  • Anne Moody (1940-)
  • Sharon Robinson (1950-)
  • Malcolm X (1925-1965)
  • General Gordon Baker (1942-)
  • Gordon Parks (1912-)
  • David Parks (1944-)
  • Kwame Ture (1941-1998)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
  • H. Rap Brown (1943-)
  • Angela Davis (1944-)
  • George Jackson (1941-1971)
  • Elaine Brown (1943-)
  • Randall Robinson (1941-)
  • LL Cool J (1968-)
  • Jonnie Cochran (1938-)
  • Margaret Walker (1915-)
  • Lee Stringer (1950-)
  • Sam Fulwood (1956-)
  • Tyrone Powers (1961-)
  • Audre Lorde (1934-1993)
  • Jill Nelson (1953-)
  • Johnetta B. Cole (1936-)
  • Max Roach (1924-)
  • Alvin Ailey (1931-1989)
  • Colin L. Powell (1937-)
  • Al Sharpton (1954-)
  • Bari-Ellen Roberts (1953-)
  • Anita Hill (1950-)
  • Gary Franks (1953-)
  • James McBride (1957-)
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal (1956-)
  • Kevin Powell (1966-)
  • Rev. Bernice King (1963-).