African American Lives

SUBJECTS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES

Entries drawn from American National Biography are indicated by asterisks

Abbott, Robert Sengstacke*

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Abele, Julian Francis

Abernathy, Ralph

Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers*

Aldridge, Ira Frederick*

Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell

Ali, Noble Drew

Allen, Richard*

Anderson, Marian*

Armstrong, Lil*

Armstrong, Louis*

Askin, Luther B.

Attucks, Crispus*

Baker, Ella Josephine*

Baker, Josephine

Baldwin, James*

Banneker, Benjamin*

Bannister, Edward Mitchell

Barnett, Claude Albert

Barthé, Richmond*

Basquiat, Jean-Michel*

Bass, Charlotta

Bates, Daisy Lee

Bayley, Solomon

Bearden, Romare*

Bechet, Sidney Joseph

Beckwourth, Jim

Belafonte, Harry

Bell, Cool Papa

Bell, James Madison*

Bell, Philip Alexander

Berry, Halle Maria

Berry, Leonidas Harris

Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod*

Bibb, Henry Walton*

Blackwell, David

Blackwell, Unita Z.

Blyden, Edward Wilmot*

Bond, Horace Mann*

Bouchet, Edward Alexander*

Bowser, Mary Elizabeth

Bradley, Thomas

Bragg, George Freeman, Jr.*

Branson, Herman Russell

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith*

Brooks, Gwendolyn*

Brooks, Walter Henderson*

Broonzy, Big Bill*

Brown, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins*

Brown, Hallie Quinn

Brown, Henry Box

Brown, Jesse Leroy

Brown, Sterling Allen*

Brown, William Wells

Bruce, Blanche Kelso*

Bullard, Eugène Jacques*

Bunche, Ralph Johnson*

Burgess, John Melville

Burleigh, Henry Thacker*

Burroughs, Nannie Helen*

Cailloux, André

Caliver, Ambrose

Calloway, Ernest

Cannon, George Dows

Cardozo, Francis Louis*

Carmichael, Stokely*

Carter, Eunice Hunton*

Carter, Robert Lee

Carver, George Washington*

Cary, Mary Ann Camberton Shadd*

Cass, Melnea Agnes Jones*

Catlett, Elizabeth

Chamberlain, Wilt

Chenault, Kenneth Irvine

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell*

Chester, Thomas Morris*

Childress, Alice

Chinn, May Edward*

Chisholm, Shirley

Clark, Kenneth Bancroft

Clark, Septima P.

Cleaver, Eldridge

Coachman, Alice

Cobb, William Montague*

Cole, Johnnetta Betsch

Coleman, Bessie*

Coleman, Ornette

Coleman, William T., Jr.

Coltrane, John William

Cook, Will Marion*

Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood

Coppin, Fanny Jackson*

Cornish, Samuel Eli*

Craft, William, and Craft, Ellen

Crummell, Alexander*

Crumpler, Rebecca Davis Lee*

Cullen, Countée*

Dandridge, Dorothy*

Davis, Angela Yvonne

Davis, Benjamin Jefferson*

Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.

Davis, Sammy, Jr.

Day, William Howard*

DeFrantz, Anita L.

Delaney, Beauford

Delany, Bessie, and Sadie Delany*

Delany, Martin Robison

Demby, Edward T.

De Priest, Oscar Stanton*

Dinkins, David N.

Dixon, “Big” Willie James

Dorsey, Thomas Andrew*

Douglass, Frederick*

Douglass, Sarah Mapps*

Dove, Rita Frances

Drake, St. Clair, Jr.*

Drew, Charles Richard*

Du Bois, W. E. B.*

Dunbar, Paul Laurence*

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice

Duncanson, Robert S.*

Dunham, Katherine Mary

du Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe*

Earley, Charity Adams

Edelman, Marian Wright

Edwards, Harry Thomas

Elders, M. Joycelyn

Ellington, Duke*

Elliott, Robert Brown*

Ellison, Ralph Waldo

Equiano, Olaudah

Europe, James Reese*

Evers-Williams, Myrlie

Farrakhan, Louis Abdul

Fauset, Crystal Bird*

Fauset, Jessie Redmon*

Fetchit, Stepin*

Fitzgerald, Ella

Flipper, Henry Ossian*

Foote, Julia A. J.

Ford, Arnold Josiah

Fortune, T. Thomas

Franklin, Aretha

Franklin, C. L.

Franklin, John Hope

Frazier, E. Franklin*

Freeman, Elizabeth

Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick

Fuller, Solomon Carter*

Garnet, Henry Highland

Garvey, Amy Ashwood

Garvey, Amy Euphemia Jacques

Garvey, Marcus*

Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar*

Gillespie, Dizzy

Giovanni, Nikki

Goldberg, Whoopi

Gordy, Berry, Jr.

Grace, Charles Emmanuel*

Greener, Richard Theodore*

Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor*

Gregory, Wilton

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

Grimes, William

Grimké, Angelina Weld*

Grimké, Archibald Henry

Grimké, Charlotte Forten*

Grimké, Francis James*

Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw

Hamer, Fannie Lou Townsend*

Hammon, Jupiter*

Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian*

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

Harrington, Oliver W.*

Harris, Barbara

Harrison, Hubert Henry*

Hastie, William Henry*

Hayden, Robert Earl*

Haynes, Lemuel*

Healy, James Augustine*

Healy, Patrick Francis*

Hedgeman, Anna Arnold

Height, Dorothy

Hemings, Sally*

Henson, Josiah*

Henson, Matthew Alexander

Herndon, Angelo Braxton

Herriman, George Joseph*

Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.*

Hill, Henry Aaron*

Hill, Mary Elliott*

Himes, Chester Bomar

Hinton, William Augustus*

Holiday, Billie

Holly, James Theodore*

Hooker, John Lee

Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth

Horton, George Moses

Houston, Charles Hamilton*

Howard, Perry Wilbon

Hubbard, William DeHart*

Hughes, Langston*

Hurston, Zora Neale*

Hutson, Jean Blackwell

Hyman, Flora “Flo”

Imes, Elmer Samuel*

Jackson, Jesse L., Sr.

Jackson, Mahalia*

Jackson, Michael

Jackson, Rebecca Cox*

Jackson, Shirley Ann

Jacobs, Harriet*

James, Daniel, Jr.

Jamison, Judith

Jefferson, Blind Lemon*

Jefferson, Mildred Fay

Johns, Vernon Napoleon*

Johnson, Charles Spurgeon

Johnson, Francis

Johnson, James Weldon*

Johnson, John Rosamond

Johnson, Joshua*

Johnson, Mordecai Wyatt*

Johnson, Robert*

Johnson, Robert L.

Johnson, William H.

Johnson-Brown, Hazel

Jones, Absalom*

Jones, Eugene Kinckle

Jones, James Earl

Jones, Loïs Mailou

Jones, Madame Sissieretta Joyner

Jones, Scipio Africanus*

Jordan, Barbara*

Jordan, Michael

Julian, Percy Lavon*

Just, Ernest Everett*

Keckly, Elizabeth Hobbs

Keith, Damon Jerome

Kelly, Sharon Pratt

King, Coretta Scott

King, Martin Luther, Jr.*

Kitt, Eartha Mae

Lampkin, Daisy Elizabeth Adams

Lane, William Henry*

Laney, Lucy Craft*

Langston, John Mercer*

Latimer, Lewis Howard*

Lawrence, Jacob Armstead

Lawrence, Margaret Morgan

Lee, Raphael Carl

Lewis, David Levering

Locke, Alain Leroy*

Logan, Rayford Whittingham*

Loguen, Jermain Wesley*

Lynch, John Roy*

Lynk, Miles Vandahurst

Malone, Annie Turnbo

Marsalis, Wynton

Marshall, Kerry James

Marshall, Paule

Marshall, Thurgood*

Massey, Walter Eugene

Matthew, Wentworth Arthur

Matthews, Victoria Earle

Matzeliger, Jan Earnst*

Mays, Benjamin E.

McClendon, Rose*

McDaniel, Hattie

McDonald, Gabrielle Kirk

McGuire, George Alexander*

McKissick, Floyd Bixler*

McLendon, Johnny

Meredith, James Howard

Michaux, Lightfoot Solomon*

Micheaux, Oscar

Mills, Florence*

Mingus, Charles, Jr.

Mitchell, Arthur

Molyneaux, Tom*

Monk, Thelonious

Morgan, Garrett Augustus

Morrow, E. Frederic

Morton, Ferdinand Quintin*

Morton, Jelly Roll

Moses, Robert Parris

Motley, Constance Baker

Moton, Robert Russa

Muhammad, Elijah*

Murray, Peter Marshall*

Nabrit, Samuel Milton

Nell, William Cooper*

Newton, Huey P.*

Nixon, Edgar Daniel*

Northup, Solomon*

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

O’Leary, Hazel R.

O’Neal, Frederick Douglass

O’Neal, Stanley

Paige, Satchel*

Parker, Charlie

Parker, William

Parks, Gordon, Jr.

Parks, Gordon, Sr.

Parks, Suzan-Lori

Parsons, Richard Dean

Patton, Charley*

Paul, Nathaniel

Payne, Daniel Alexander*

Payton, Philip A., Jr.*

Pennington, James William Charles

Pickens, William

Pinchback, P. B. S.*

Pippin, Horace*

Pleasant, Mary Ellen*

Plessy, Homer Adolph*

Poindexter, Hildrus Augustus*

Poitier, Sidney

Porter, James Amos*

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.*

Price, Leontyne

Puryear, Martin

Quarles, Benjamin Arthur

Raines, Franklin

Randolph, A. Philip

Rangel, Charles

Reason, Patrick Henry*

Reid, Ira De Augustine*

Remond, Charles Lenox*

Remond, Sarah Parker*

Revels, Hiram Rhoades*

Rice, Condoleezza

Rillieux, Norbert*

Robinson, Bill*

Robinson, Eddie

Robinson, Jackie*

Robinson, James Herman

Robinson, Jo Ann

Robinson, John C.*

Robinson, Randall

Robinson, Sugar Ray

Rowan, Carl Thomas

Rudolph, Wilma*

Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre*

Ruggles, David*

Russwurm, John Brown*

Rustin, Bayard Taylor

Savage, Augusta

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso*

Schuyler, George Samuel

Scott, Emmett Jay*

Scottsboro Boys

Shakur, Tupac Amaru

Shepard, James Edward

Sheppard, William Henry

Simmons, Ruth J.

Singleton, Benjamin*

Sleet, Moneta, Jr.

Slowe, Lucy Diggs

Smalls, Robert*

Smith, Amanda Berry*

Smith, James McCune*

Smith, Willie Mae Ford

Staupers, Mabel Doyle Keaton

Steward, Austin*

Steward, Theophilus Gould*

Stewart, Maria W.

Still, William*

Still, William Grant*

Stockton, Betsey*

Sullivan, Leon Howard

Tanner, Benjamin Tucker*

Tanner, Henry Ossawa*

Terrell, Mary Eliza Church*

Thomas, Clarence

Thomas, Vivien Theodore

Thompson, Era Bell*

Thurman, Howard W.

Thurman, Wallace*

Till, Emmett Louis*

Tindley, Charles Albert*

Trotter, William Monroe*

Truth, Sojourner*

Tubman, Harriet

Turner, Charles Henry*

Turner, Henry McNeal*

VanDerZee, James Augustus Joseph

Walker, Alice Malsenior

Walker, Madame C. J.*

Walker, Maggie Lena

Washington, Booker T.*

Washington, Denzel

Washington, Harold*

Washington, Margaret Murray

Washington, Ora

Weaver, Robert Clifton

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Wesley, Charles Harris

Wharton, Clifton Reginald*

Wheatley, Phillis*

Whipple, Prince

White, Augustus Aaron, III

White, George Henry*

White, Walter Francis

Wilder, Douglas

Wilkins, J. Ernest, Jr.

Williams, Bert & George Walker*

Williams, Cathay

Williams, Daniel Hale*

Williams, George Washington*

Williams, John Alfred

Williams, Paul Revere

Williams, Peter, Jr.*

Williams, Smokey Joe

Williams, Venus

Wilson, Harriet E.

Wilson, William Julius

Woods, Granville T.

Woodson, Carter Godwin*

Work, Monroe Nathan*

Wright, Louis Tompkins*

Wright, Richard

Wright, Richard Robert, Sr.*

Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr.

Young, Coleman*

Young, Whitney Moore, Jr.*