Essay assignments will follow MLA format. This means they must be typed, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins all around, in 12 point, Times New Roman or similar font. Final essays will be 2-3 pages in length. Paper should have an original title.
Instruction:
Critical analysis of a famous African American from the list provided. 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 of famous African American:
• Dr. Paul Murray
• Bessie Coleman
• Jean-BapisteBelley
• 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 KoolHerc
• Lonnie Clayton
• Mrs. Mamie Lang Kirkland
• Lucius SeptimiusBassianus
• 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
• LovieYancy
• Willie James Howard
• Toni Stone (Marcenia Lyle Alberga)
• Lucien Victor Alexis
• MeviniaSheilds
• 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
• StokelyCarmichal
• 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
• SekouSundiata
• 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
• EarthaKitt
• 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