Black Liberation Theoreticians ANCESTORS


INTRODUCTION ■ WHY A DIRECTORY ■ ANCESTORS


■ ABDULLAH h ABDUR-RAZZAQ ■ VICTORIA GRAY ADAMS ■ SADIE TANNER MOSSELL ALEXANDER ■ NOBLE DREW ALI ■ ABDULRAHMAN MOHAMED BABU ■
■ JUAN ALMEIDA ■ MARIAN ANDERSON ■ VIOLETTE NEATLEY ANDERSON ■ MAYA ANGELOU ■ QUEEN MOTHER YAA ASANTEWAA ■ MAY AYIM ■ ELLA BAKER ■
■ GENERAL BAKER ■ JOSEPHINE BAKER ■ TONI CADE BAMBARA ■ AMIRI BARAKA ■ ETTA MOTEN BARNETT ■ ROBERTA BYRD BARR ■ CHARLOTTA BASS ■ DAISY BATES ■
■ LERONE BENNETT ■ LOUISE BENNETT-COVERLEY ■ ABNER BERRY ■CARRIE BEST ■ MARY McLEOD BETHUNE ■ MAVYNEE "BEACH LADY" BETSCH ■ JOHN BIGGERS ■ MAURICE BISHOP ■
■ CARL BLOICE ■ LUCILE BLUFORD ■ JAMES BOGGS ■ ST CLAIRE BOURNE ■ ELOMBE BRATH ■ CYRIL BRIGGS ■ ELIZABETH CARTER BROOKS ■ GWENDOLYN BROOKS ■
■ OSCAR BROWN JR ■ ALICE BROWNING ■ JOSEPHINE BEALL WILLSON BRUCE ■ DENNIS BRUTUS ■ RALPH BUNCHE ■ MARGARET BURROUGHS ■
■ WILLIANA "LIANE" JONES BURROUGHS ■ ROD BUSH ■ OCTAVIA BUTLER ■ TUBAL URIAH "BUZZ" BUTLER ■ AMILCAR CABRAL ■ TERRY CALLIER ■ GRACE P CAMPBELL ■
■ JAN CAREW ■ CARLOTTA ■ BETTY CARTER ■ ELIZABETH CATLETT ■ MITCHELL CATON ■ HORACE CAYTON JR ■ REVELS CAYTON ■ ALICE CHILDRESS ■
■ SHIRLEY CHISHOLM ■ ROBERT CHRISMAN ■ BARBARA CHRISTIAN ■ SEPTIMA POINSETTE CLARK ■ JOHN HENRIK CLARKE ■ REV AL CLEAGE ■ KEN COCKREL ■
■ BESSIE COLEMAN ■ JOHN COLTRANE ■ FANNY JACKSON COPPIN ■ JAYNE CORTEZ ■ JUANITA JEWEL SHANKS CRAFT ■ HAROLD CRUSE ■ MARGARET DANNER ■
■ ALLISON DAVIS ■ BENJAMIN J DAVIS JR ■ MILES DAVIS ■ RUBY DEE ■ MARTIN DELANY ■ JEFF DONALDSON ■ EBON DOOLEY ■ ROSIE DOUGLAS ■
■ FREDERICK DOUGLASS ■ ST CLAIR DRAKE ■ SHIRLEY GRAHAM DUBOIS ■ W E B DUBOIS ■ KATHERINE DUNHAM ■ ALICE ALLISON DUNNIGAN ■ LENA FRANCIS EDWARDS ■
■ THYRA J EDWARDS ■ DUKE ELLINGTON ■ BILL EPTON ■ FRANTZ FANON ■ JAMES FARMER ■ CECILE FATIMAN ■ RALPH FEATHERSTONE ■ HERMAN FERGUSON ■
■ JUAN FLORES ■ JAMES FORD ■ KENT FOREMAN ■ JAMES FORMAN ■ ELIZABETH FOUSE ■ HOYT FULLER ■ ALVENIA FULTON ■ MARCUS GARVEY ■ VICKY GARVIN ■ DICK GREGORY ■
■ PRATHIA HALL ■ STUART HALL ■ FANNIE LOU HAMER ■ JOHN HANCOX ■ CHRIS HANI ■ LORRAINE HANSBERRY ■ VINCENT HARDING ■ FRANCES E W HARPER ■
■ OLLIE HARRINGTON ■ HUBERT HARRISON ■ VIVIAN HARSH ■ JAMES hAUGHTON ■ HARRY HAYWOOD ■ TIM HECTOR ■ ANNA ARNOLD HEDGEMAN ■ DOROTHY HEIGHT ■ LOLA HENDRICKS ■
■ GIL SCOTT HERON ■ CHARITY HICKS ■ PAT HILL ■ BILLIE HOLIDAY ■ LENA HORNE ■ CHARLES HOUSTON ■ LANGSTON HUGHES ■ JESSICA HUNTLEY ■ ALPHEUS HUNTON■
■ ZORA NEALE HURSTON ■ GEORGE JACKSON ■ MAHALIA JACKSON ■ C L R JAMES ■ EDDIE JEFFERSON ■ NANCY JEFFERSON ■ NELLIE STONE JOHNSON ■ CLAUDIA JONES ■
■ JUNE JORDAN ■ FLORYNCE KENNEDY■ MARTIN LUTHER KING ■ FELA KUTI ■ JOHN LA ROSE ■ ELMA LEWIS ■ ABBY LINCOLN ■ AUDRE LORDE ■ CHOKWE LUMUMBA ■
■ PATRICE LUMUMBA ■ MIRIAM MAKEBA ■ MANNING MARABLE ■ SAMORI MARKSMAN ■ MIRIAM MATTHEWS ■ CURTIS MAYFIELD ■ ALI MAZRUI ■ CLAUDE McKAY■
■ CARMEN MCRAE ■ OSCAR DEVEREAUX MICHEAUX ■ CHARLES MINGUS ■ THELONIOUS MONK ■ QUEEN MOTHER MOORE ■ RICHARD MOORE ■ OLIVE MORRIS ■
■ CONSTANCE MOTLEY ■ PIERRE MULELE ■ UNA MULZAC ■ ISAAC MYERS ■ NANNY ■ LARRY NEAL ■ HUEY NEWTON ■ KWAME NKRUMAH ■ QUEEN NZINGA ■ IMARI ABUBAKARI OBADELE ■
■ ODETTA ■ CHARLIE PARKER ■ ROSA PARKS ■ MARY VIRGINIA COOK PARRISH ■ LUCY PARSONS ■ LOUISE THOMPSON PATTERSON ■ WILLIAM PATTERSON ■
■ NELSON PERRY ■ PETTIS PERRY ■ ANN PETRY ■ GERONIMO PRATT ■ SUN RA ■ AHMAD RAHMAN ■ DUDLEY RANDALL ■ SARAH PARKER REDMOND ■ LOUIS REYES RIVERA ■
■ PAUL ROBESON ■ RUBY DORIS ROBINSON ■ WALTER RODNEY ■ CAROLYN ROGERS ■ CHARLEMAE ROLLINS ■ JOSEPHINE ST PIERRE RUFFIN ■ EDITH SAMPSON ■
■ AUGUSTA SAVAGE ■ JAMES "YAKI" SAYLES ■ MARY SEACOLE ■ BOBBY SENGSTACKE ■ MARY ANN SHADD ■ AARON SHIRLEY ■ FRED SHUTTLESWORTH ■ NINA SIMONE ■ ARCHIE SINGHAM ■
■ BENJAMIN SINGLETON ■ ALBERTINA SISULU ■ WALTER SISULU ■ BARBARA SIZEMORE ■ ROBERT SMALLS ■ AMANDA BERRY SMITH ■ BESSIE SMITH ■ MORANDA SMITH ■
■ ROBERT SOBUKWE ■ EILEEN SOUTHERN ■ STAGECOACH MARY ■ MARIA W STEWART ■ BARBARA ANN TEER ■ MARRY CHURCH TERRELL ■ JOHNNIE TILLMON ■
■ MELVIN TOLSON ■ SOJOURNER TRUTH■ HARRIET TUBMAN ■ KWAME TURE ■ HENRY McNEAL TURNER ■ NAT TURNER ■ BILL WALKER ■ MADAME C J WALKER ■
■ MARGARET WALKER■ HAROLD WASHINGTON ■ IDA B WELLS ■ JITU WEUSI ■ PRESTON WILCOX ■ MABEL WILLIAMS ■ RHONDA M WILLIAMS ■ ROBERT WILLIAMS ■
■ HENRY WINSTON ■ ADA WRIGHT ■ ADDIE WYATT ■ MALCOLM X ■ CLYDE YOUNG ■



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Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq 1931 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_H._Abdur-Razzaq http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/raazaq.html http://ourtimepress.com/?p=10461 http://www.malcolmxfaq.com/About-Abdur-Razzaq.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50oF8QVIOmU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEGQW1UD-u0`

Victoria Gray Adams 1926 - 2006	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Gray_Adams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2qpI1Wq9Uo http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/16/victoria_gray_adams_1926_2006_civil http://digital.wustl.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eop;cc=eop;rgn=main;view= text;idno=ada0015.1006.002 http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m345.htm http://www.fannielouhamer.info/adams.html`

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander 1898 - 1989	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Tanner_Mossell_Alexander http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bnoe6NF-AU http://www.blackpast.org/aah/alexander-sadie-tanner-mossell-1898-1989 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16896380 http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/biographies/a/SadieTannerMossellAlexander.htm`

Noble Drew Ali 1886 - 1929	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_Science_Temple_of_America http://hermetic.com/moorish/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIewokB4JtQ http://www.rvbeypublications.com/id76.html http://raceandreligion.com/JRER/Volume_5_% 282014%29_files/Abdat%205%208.pdf`

Marian Anderson 1897 - 1993	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYcheeUS5A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLvusKNU7U http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/ sophiasmith/mnsss210_main.html`

Violette Neatley Anderson 1882 - 1937	http://www.blackpast.org/aah/anderson-violette-neatley-1882-1937 http://www.lasentinel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6110: violette-neatley-trailblazer-for-women&catid=69&Itemid=159 http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/violette-anderson -early-legal-representative https://books.google.com/books?id=DrsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=Violette+Anderson+ interview&source=bl&ots=ZLdE6-dFcr&sig=1RYIb09KVlbz4hfkq9eVgR02otM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f0WPVP_ WFIi0yQSJ34HwDQ&ved=0CFUQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=Violette%20Anderson%20interview&f=false

Maya Angelou 1928 - 2014	`http://mayaangelou.com/ http://www.buzzfeed.com/tracyclayton/ must-see-video-clips-of-dr-maya-angelou http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXCHKWFmU2s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvcTjTejZ4`

Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa c 1840 - 1921	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaa_Asantewaa` `http://www.blackhistoryheroes.com/2010/05/ queen-mother-nana-yaa-asantewaa.html`

May Ayim 1960 - 1996	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim http://www.gerlindinstitute.org/resources/articles/Ayim_FLANC.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lG1s5iMsZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1UNcw1SMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKFReBp-eJc`

Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu 1924 - 1996	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_Mohamed_Babu http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol1no9/AbdulRahmanMohamedBabu.pdf http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/shoulders-our-freedom-fighters/20 686-malcolm-x-abdul-rahman-babu.html http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/political% 20science/volume1n2/ajps001002008.pdf http://allafrica.com/stories/201407041496.html`

Ella Baker 1903 - 1986	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Baker` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRl6h-Cn4W0` `http://ellabakercenter.org/blog/2013/12/ellas-song-we-who- believe-in-freedom-cannot-rest-until-it-comes`

General Baker 1941 - 2014	`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUfop2Pl9pc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF9DVBOVvNc http://www.speakersforanewamerica.com/gen.html http://www.daahp.wayne.edu/biographiesDisplay.php?id=78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCejbllKco http://vimeo.com/14124564 http://vimeo.com/14129819`

Josephine Baker 1906 - 1975	`http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/about/biography.html http://www.blackpast.org/1963-josephine-baker-speech- march-washington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHnOfKwAga0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggb_wGTvZoU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7m7bUHq2E`

Toni Cade Bambara 1939 - 1995	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Cade_Bambara http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/literature/toni-cade-bambara http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/bambaraToni.php http://lit.genius.com/Toni-cade-bambara-the-lesson-annotated http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Toni_Cade_Bambara`

Amiri Baraka 1934 - 2014	`http://www.amiribaraka.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5pdz2uGFc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1-2S7baPUU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfaLDvvM7S4`

Etta Moten Barnett 1901 - 2004	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Moten_Barnett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2JInRosXC0 http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/etta-moten- barnett-first-african-american-sing-white-house http://www.chicagohs.org/documents/chicago-history- magazine/ChicagoHistory_Vol28No2_Gilfoyle.pdf http://www.chipublib.org/fa-etta-moten-barnett-papers/`

Roberta Byrd Barr 1919 - 1993	`http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/barr-roberta-byrd-1919-1993 http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date =19930625&slug=1708145 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output .cfm&file_id=306 https://prezi.com/lwrw2seltr2t/robert-byrd-barr/`

Charlotta Bass 1874 - 1969	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGzxT0v7Zs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhUAuVOA98 http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d/ http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/bass-charlotta-1879-1969`

Daisy Bates 1914 - 1999	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_%28civil_rights_activist%29 http://itvs.org/films/daisy-bates http://www.t3licensing.com/license/clip/1B113966_0016.do http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0009/menu.html http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement/videos/little-rock-nine-rev`
Lerone Bennett / IL 1928 - 2018	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerone_Bennett,_Jr. http://www.visionaryproject.org/bennettlerone/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1D8xQEZEU http://www.c-span.org/person/?leronebennett http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/bennettroad.html`

Louise Bennett-Coverley 1919 - 2006	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bennett-Coverley http://louisebennett.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH6gYqrFLdQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlaL6zAI48 http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/people/misslouinterview.shtml`

Abner Berry 1902 - 1987	http://www.unz.org/Author/BerryAW http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/berry-on-ellison.html http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/27/obituaries/abner-w-berry.html http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/communists-at-highlander -in-tennessee-why-is-this-important/

Carrie Best 1903 - 2001	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Best http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/celebrations/celebrating -black-history/civil-rights-activist-carrie-best.html http://www.parl.ns.ca/carriebest/ http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/writer-carrie-best-born http://www.constancebackhouse.ca/fileadmin/ publicationlist/I_Was_Unable_to_Identify_with_Topsy.pdf`

Mary McLeod Bethune 1875 - 1955	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McLeod_Bethune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkM_YcJXF7g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZKz_Cz06jM http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/mmbethune.html http://www.floridamemory.com/onlineclassroom/marybethune/`

MaVynee "Beach Lady" Betsch 1935 - 2005	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaVynee_Betsch http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/mavynee-beach-lady-betsch-39 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D2lPKbDliY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51g0v4rX6yA http://jacksonville.com/community/jacksonville-community-news/2010- 12-08/story/american-beach%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cbeach-lady%E2%80%9D-finalist`

John Thomas Biggers 1924 - 2001	`http://johnbiggers.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmFp-XMdtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmZ21Jev1CM http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/oral- history/john-biggers-1.php http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa200.htm`

Maurice Bishop 1944 - 1983	`http://www.gov.gd/biographies/maurice_bishop_bio.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPioYZEIcs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znu0kqUXQT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TsN8x_BGs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpaUWayC_k4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Q6Kv7ihF4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHtOuy_VUBY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dseOqO0f104 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruPz_obosQ8`

Carl Bloice 1939 - 2014	`http://www.keywiki.org/Carl_Bloice http://www.indypendent.org/2014/04/20/radical-journalist- carl-bloice-remembered-1939-2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSo9gWhZLuo http://truth-out.org/commentary/item/index.php?option=com_ k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=46220&Itemid=252 http://www.blackcommentator.com/501/501_lm_jobs.html`

Lucile Bluford 1911 - 2003	`http://www.blackpast.org/aah/lucile-bluford-1911-2003 http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/b/bluford/ http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/leadership-management/what-great- bosses-know/21161/the-unforgettable-miss-bluford/ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r108:E17JN3-0051: http://www.kclibrary.org/bluford/exhibit` `http://www.kclibrary.org/event/justice-postponed-justice-denied- lucile-bluford-and-campaign-educational-equality`
James Boggs 1919 - 1993	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boggs_(activist)`http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/amreboggs.html http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814336410 https://www.reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP001342.pdf http://boggsschool.org/grace-and-jimmy`

St Claire Bourne 1943 - 2007	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Bourne http://www.badwest.org/index.php/gallery/video-trailers/video/ st-clair-bourne-interview-june-2006 http://blackeducator.blogspot.com/2007/12/st-clair-bourne-1943-2007-joins.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDPDKEgo5l8 http://www.documentary.org/content/bourne-legacy`

Juan Almeida Bosque 1927 - 2009	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Almeida_Bosque http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKalmeida.htm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/juan-almeida-bosque-cuban-vicepresident- who-fought-alongside-castro-and-guevara-1792109.html http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14510&ArticleId=343612 http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-world-news/39634-juan-almedia- 1927-2009-cuba-honors-commander-revolution.html`

Elombe Brath 1936 - 2014	`http://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization.php?name=Patrice+Lumumba+Coalition http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/bronx_african_americ/archival _survey/elombe_brath_69309.asp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RQUpKVUbY&list=PLOlusbuSdIFs7YWxfl_9eZK7OV8FREq7U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJJpw5-nVQ`

Cyril Briggs 1888 - 1966	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Briggs http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/abb.html http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/other/abb/abb.html`

Elizabeth Carter Brooks 1867 - 1951	`http://nbhistoricalsociety.org/Important- Figures/elizabeth-carter-brooks-1867-1951/ http://vc.bridgew.edu/hoba/19/`

Gwendolyn Brooks 1917 - 2000	`http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gwendolyn-brooks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZ6KTLN7O8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEEj1np8RY http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brooks/interviews.htm http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower/archives/94hawkins_brooks_intervi.shtml http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/brooks/`

Alice Browning 1907 - 1985	`http://www.chipublib.org/fa-alice-browning-papers/ http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/artifacts/index.php?id=browning http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-17/news/ 8503100885_1_black-authors-mrs-browning-social-worker`

Oscar Brown Jr 1926 - 2005	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brown http://www.npr.org/artists/15316774/oscar-brown-jr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52jAebgeIN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPqe1TRh38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVymZxekEw&list=RD52jAebgeIN0&index=2 http://martinperlichinterviews.com/archives/interviews/oscar-brown-jr-2/`

Josephine Beall Willson Bruce 1853 - 1923	`http://www.blackpast.org/aah/bruce-josephine-beall-willson-1853-1923 http://theblacksocialite.blogspot.com/2008/02/ americas-first-black-socialite.html http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/ concerned-citizen-josephine-bruce http://www.ecacollective.org/emergingwomen/Bruce.html`

Dennis Brutus 1924 - 2009	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Brutus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8TpLXrhqok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNAfhW_kzn0 http://www.democracynow.org/topics/dennis_brutus http://www.c-span.org/person/?dennisbrutus http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/ catalog/inu-ead-afri-archon-153`

Ralph Bunche 1904 - 1971	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bunche http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QUny_0p53E http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1950/bunche-bio.html http://newsreel.org/video/RALPH-BUNCHE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeLC8IL18mg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UAVA1wobo`

Margaret Burroughs 1915 - 2010	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3twGYhP0jM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Taylor-Burroughs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcL5CMyGJYQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h1RMdPknCo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sopGwt2EW4`

Williana "Liane" Jones Burroughs 1882 - 1945	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williana_Burroughs http://www.quazoo.com/q/Williana_Burroughs http://www.harlemworldmag.com/williana-liane- jones-burroughs-harlem/`

Roderick Bush 1945 - 2013	`http://rodbush.org/ http://rodbush.org/youtube/ http://www.binghamton.edu/sociology/bush_announcement.pdf http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/598/Critical_and_Activist_Scholarship_-_%3Cem%3ECritical_ Sociology%3C/em%3E_Conference/ http://www.socialjusticejournal.org/archive/91_30_1/91_04Bush.pdf https://roderickbush.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/memorial-program-final-with-songs.pdf`

Octavia Estelle Butler 1947 - 2006	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/racism/010830.octaviabutleressay.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pu-Miq4tk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1W9CNwl2e8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW9hVkrO9OU&list=PLF2B811B45D5DFF5B`

Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler 1897 - 1977	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubal_Uriah_Butler http://trinbagopan.com/TubalUriah1.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-lY6-Ndig4 http://www.workersunion.org.tt/our-history/union-stalwarts/uriah-buzz-butle http://www.trinidadexpress.com/featured-news/The-man-who-revolutionised- the-labour-movement-212071311.htmlr`

Amilcar Cabral 1924 - 1973	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCboxjzzSksvtVpIy7aWG1-A http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/amilcar_cabral_2.htm http://escholarship.org/uc/search?entity=international_asc_ufahamu;volume=3;issue=3`

Terry Callier 1945 - 2012	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Callier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwr3tijCHY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJEh_Uxsbw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_235YgJ6U http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ajF1efjPmFQIbsyspnKHQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcVrBMBTemc`

Grace P Campbell 1883 - 1943	http://www.blackpast.org/aah/campbell-grace-p-1883-1943 http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/3/6/0/7/p436075_index.html https://books.google.com/books?id=3gJ-98w29P4C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq= Grace+P.+Campbell+interview&source=bl&ots=MMOnKx5230&sig=vwSKBknSo3l4T Rn5QStkAGwwh04&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8JWPVPEpxPfJBL7TgLgM&ved=0CB0Q6AEwADgK#v= onepage&q=Grace%20P.%20Campbell%20interview&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=iSAjTDHiC4MC&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq= Grace+P.+Campbell+interview&source=bl&ots=drhMFQY2n7&sig=J3Ssy1lhuRl_ UwP8XTCzboWARwM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5ZWPVJW5LdSxyASxpoGwDA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw# v=onepage&q=Grace%20P.%20Campbell%20interview&f=false

Jan Carew 1920 -2012	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Carew http://jancarew.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn6NcRJ8Uh4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4LvpxPfydw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXMXQiMuIFU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIaUs0ChGBA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACXrwTiep4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doMb21u4aAA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4O3QrVR-5M`

Carlota Lukumi Image from Granma. Died 1844	`http://www.afrocubaweb.com/carlota.htm http://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/blog/2013/08/26/ Spirit-la-carlota-lives/ http://sharenews.com/operation-carlotta-turned-tide- against-apartheid/ http://eyeoftheday.org/herstory/2013/05/14/carlotta-and- the-slaves-revolt-of-1843-in-cuba/`

Betty Carter 1929 -1998	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Carter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weuqez4HfJ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e98YNyhyMJo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaLxfHSF0WY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJzyAoBUfxI http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t =1&islist=false&id=93572181&m=93593498&live=1`

Elizabeth Catlett 1915 - 2012	`http://elizabethcatlett.net/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0-q2WJY1iU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnpu6sk1NL0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/arts/design/elizabeth-catlett-sculptor- with-eye-on-social-issues-dies-at-96.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJxGOpd2HH8`

Mitchell Caton 1930 - 1998	`https://madaboutthemural.wordpress.com/category/mitchell-caton/ http://murallocator.org/2012/05/the-wall-of-day- dreaming-and-mans-inhumanity-to-man/ https://clorin1.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/mitchell-caton/ http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/african-american- artist-mitchell-caton-works-on-a-mural-for-news-photo/93480239 http://www.cpag.net/guide/2/2_pages/2_6_07.htm`

Horace Roscoe Cayton, Jr 1903 - 1970	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_R._Cayton,_Jr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0sLSE68hs http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/horace-r-cayton-jr/ http://www.chipublib.org/fa-horace-r-cayton-papers/ http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/cayton-jr-horace-roscoe-1903-1970`

Revels Cayton 1907 - 1995	`http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/revels_cayton.htm http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/cayton-revels-1907-1995 http://depts.washington.edu/dock/mcs_desegregation.shtml https://books.google.com/books?id=rzKfzWZs5yYC&pg=PA209&lpg= PA209&dq=Revels+Cayton+communist&source=bl&ots=vvU7GNMv8M&sig=WL- yUeBNxn6Z5zWGTQnnFTFnB78&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kdqRVJ26G8SyyATw1ICoAw&ved= 0CEsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Revels%20Cayton%20communist&f=false`

Alice Childress 1916 - 1994	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress http://www.blackpast.org/aah/childress-alice-1916-1994 https://www.tumblr.com/search/alice+childress http://archive.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/childress.html http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/black-and-blue-2`

Shirley Chisholm 1924 - 2005	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjIzxFL98Hg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2ngZgo17U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrN8N0dHMsc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31fzqYfqgGI`

Robert Chrisman 1937 - 2013	`http://sfbayview.com/2013/03/robert-chrisman-and-the-black-scholar/ http://robertchrismanpoetauthorscholar.weebly.com/ http://keywiki.org/Robert_Chrisman http://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2013/03/black- scholar-magazine-editor-robert.html http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20 Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Essays/Chrisman.S.pdf`

Barbara Christian 1943 - 2000	`http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/07/12/christian.html http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252090820 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/isoke001/black_feminism/race%20for%20theory.pdf http://engl273g-luck.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/ view/Christian_EverydayUseIntro.pdf http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt067nd06f/dsc/`

Septima Poinsette Clark 1898 - 1987	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septima_Poinsette_Clark http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sohp/id/11139 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRrsUABx20 http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvbTlbi3SHmHQgq_rq7VMg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZjU93RSvLg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXmqn8VasU`

John Henrik Clarke 1915 - 1998	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henrik_Clarke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdQzyQnHeg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bconTdCWtM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=683Q4_w_7VU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWDuOqHBnVQ`

Rev Al Cleage aka Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman 1911 - 2000	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Cleage http://www.blacdetroit.com/BLAC-Detroit/October-2011/ Black-Christian-Radical-and-Beloved/ http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/albert_cleage.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrtzGKa10I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r-2buh3zd0`

Ken Cockrel, Sr 1938 - 1989	`http://www.daahp.wayne.edu/biographiesDisplay.php?id=101 http://teamowens313.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ken-cockrel-sr- ken-cockrel-jr-detroit-past-present-future/ http://www.johnsinclair.us/writings/20-features/861-in-memory-of-kenneth-v-cockrel.html http://thedspotredeux.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-beginning-for-detroit-kenneth.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDeoojh2UY`

Bessie Coleman 1892 - 1926	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman http://www.bessiecoleman.com/default.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/ peopleevents/pandeAMEX02.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPmMHuO5XSY http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,7,1,1,10`

John Coltrane 1926 - 1967	`http://www.johncoltrane.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clC6cgoh1sU http://links.org.au/node/1906 http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=malcolm-x-and-the-music http://socialistworker.org/2006-2/603/603_13_Coltrane.shtml`

Fanny Jackson Coppin 1837 - 1913	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Jackson_Coppin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgJi0zoRGs http://www.blackpast.org/aah/coppin-fannie-jackson-1837-1913 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pandeAMEX44.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAGo2xPm6M`

Jayne Cortez 1934 - 2012	`http://www.jaynecortez08.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6bKgljhvR0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3SY8xZtVk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZhd1pUMfzM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftrVsO4dP5o`

Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft 1902 - 1985	`http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/juanita-jewel-shanks-craft- 1902-1985-and-long-civil-rights-movement-texas http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00086/cah-00086.html https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr59 https://dallaslibrary2.org/texas/archives/08105.html http://www.baylorhealth.com/SPECIALTIESSERVICES/DIABETESENDOCRINOLOGY/ DHWI/ABOUT/Pages/History.aspx`

Harold Cruse 1916 - 2005	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Cruse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDEH_hNrwXA http://kemetrise.sytes.net:8245/Kemetrise%20Library/cruseinterview.pdf http://brotherwisedispatch.blogspot.com/2009/12/revolutionary-nationalism-and-afro.html http://books.google.com/books?id=rrIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=harold+cruse+negro+di gest&source=bl&ots=4z_A8dgV7E&sig=x2ynDgA6EH_qSPSvtXTdKWPi7OU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lnwgVMHkN4q MyATbvIAo&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=harold%20cruse%20negro%20digest&f=false http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_187/dscref80.html

Margaret Danner 1915 - 1986	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Danner http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/margaret-danner http://garlicandgreens.info/2012/10/danner/ http://books.google.com/books?id=iTWu0aSofkkC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=Margaret+ Danner&source=bl&ots=IJbxe7DeYd&sig=-51WgMgnnHbfe_XUoz9AG3PeMzg&hl=en&sa=X&ei= l7siVMTfKMKdygS_goDIBg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=Margaret%20Danner&f=false http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.DANNERM`

Allison Davis 1902 - 1983	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Davis http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/centcat/fac/facch25_01.html http://blackhistorynow.com/allison-davis/ http://www.anb.org/articles/14/14-01164.html?from=../20/20-01894 .html&from_nm=Tyler%2C%20Ralph%20W. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid= ICU.SPCL.DAVISA&q=Anthropologists`

Benjamin J Davis Jr 1903 - 1964	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_J._Davis,_Jr. http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20651 http://www.nathanielturner.com/benjaminjdavisbio.htm http://www.peoplesworld.org/it-s-time-to-honor-ben-davis/ http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/guilty-charged- communist-councilman-1949-article-1.818751`

Miles Davis 1926 - 1991	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis http://www.milesdavis.com/us/home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XnLblYNfIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DkFrXQJJlo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHirpzC8f1Q`

Ruby Dee 1922 - 2014	http://www.ossieandruby.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCheLpvXuzM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77WS8eN5h3s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_6-eS5Uvk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUemeogd1lA

Martin Delany 1812 - 1885	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Delany http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17154/17154-h/17154-h.htm http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/africam/blakehp.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhnu51kQtSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTUVoOba1KE`

Jeff Donaldson 1932 - 2004	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Donaldson_%28artist%29 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG01/hughes/wives.html http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/13/ guardianobituaries.artsobituaries http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/ entry-detail.aspx?entryID=7484 http://africobra.com/JeffPage_1.html`

Ebon Dooley aka Leo Hale 1942 - 2006	`http://www.peoplestribune.org/PT.2006.11/PT.2006.11.15.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH4uzxq9t34 http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-afro-am&month=0610&week=c&msg=KzOgnZ6TY3zIKGiXBsio5Q&user=&pw= http://chilaborarts.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/poem-for-april-26-ebon-dooley/`

Roosevelt "Rosie" Bernard Douglas 1941 - 2000	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Douglas http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/rosiedouglas.htm#.VFACZ8lnCSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD3FP2KAr6M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDJOe43-U5I http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/05/guardianobituaries.pollypattullo`

Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj-gz3u-1jM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swYQ_-TNutI http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick- douglass/videos/the-meaning-of-july-4th-for-the-negro http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324#synopsis`

St. Clair Drake 1911 - 1990	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Drake http://stclairdrake.net/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hd_yGU5XVc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiZ8S5Y8UI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVIfyMO2SCM https://archive.org/details/popuparchive-1912481`

Shirley Graham DuBois 1896 - 1977	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Graham_Du_Bois http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3mhM3bHCZ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqURMWBCyYo http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection= oasis&uniqueId=sch00211 http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2007/10/shirley- graham-dubois-speech-to-all.html


W E B DuBois 1868 - 1963	`http://www.webdubois.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkxVXx3l6yk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemGETdjx0w http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/dubois/ http://scua.library.umass.edu/dubois/`

Katherine Dunham 1909 - 2006	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyx6ue7K6o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhJxoFqfx3s http://kdcah.org/ http://www.loc.gov/collections/katherine-dunham/about-this-collection/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_h0PBtv5-c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W23MYjH92co&list=PLEAFwDOiSCUbzkvVyHkwkK23uv35n_F7Y`

Alice Allison Dunnigan 1906 - 1983	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Allison_Dunnigan http://www.kywcrh.org/archives/861 http://www.theloganjournal.com/Stories.aspx?Article=guests6 http://books.google.com/books?id=b0IEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&dq=Alice+Allison+ Dunnigan:+led+the+fight+for+black+journalists&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lmVhVL3eLced ygSR74DYDA&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Alice%20Allison% 20Dunnigan%3A%20led%20the%20fight%20for%20black%20journalists&f=false http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/dunnigan929/printable/`

Lena Francis Edwards 1900 - 1986	`http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_96.html http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/lena-edwards-cared-many-people http://books.google.com/books?id=LNcDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs _ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/Pages/E_Pages/Edwards_Lena.htm`

Thyra J Edwards 1897 - 1953	`http://www.blackpast.org/aah/edwards-thyra-j-1887-1953 http://www.workers.org/2012/us/thyra_edwards_0329/ http://www.amazon.com/Thyra-J-Edwards-Activist-Struggle/dp/0826219128 http://www.naswdc.org/diversity/black_history/edwards.asp`

Duke Ellington 1899 - 1974	`http://www.dukeellington.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUPQYriTVY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiM4UxlD9Lw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_Brown_and_Beige http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmvaZqr6RFY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0jxd1n_wH0`

Bill Epton 1932 - 2002	`https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-2/proletarian-cause/article2.htm http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/2002/Epton.htm http://www.mltranslations.org/us/epton.htm http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/freedom-now-party.htm http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/epton-self.htm` http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/epton-senate-flyer.jpg

Frantz Omar Fanon 1925 - 1961	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fQ7KwKgFA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyPwsh079Y http://frantzfanonfoundation-fondationfrantzfanon.com/ http://historiesofviolence.com/thinkers/fanon/`

James Leonard Farmer, Jr 1920 - 1999	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Farmer http://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135836458/a-freedom- ride-organizer-on-non-violent-resistance http://digital.wustl.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eop;cc =eop;rgn=main;view=text;idno=far0015.0485.037 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8-r97KZKk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3SeqEQpP2o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ybz1_nytI&index=5& list=PLsEqtJWshFvAQyl1wIfY3XTHlNqYAAKqZ`

Cecile Fatiman Image from Wikipedia. fl. 1791	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9cile_Fatiman http://eyeoftheday.org/herstory/2013/05/21/cecile- fatiman-and-the-haitian-independence/ http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=C%C3%A9cile_Fatiman https://theswingingbridgeuf.wordpress.com/tag/cecile-fatiman/ http://thepublicarchive.com/?paged=8`

Ralph Featherstone 1939 - 1970	`http://www.crmvet.org/mem/feather.htm http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Manuscripts/id/8403 http://exiledun.livejournal.com/100603.html http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1568048/h -rap-brown-and-ralph-featherstone-speaking http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgslave.htm`

Baba Herman Ferguson 1921 - 2014	`http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/ferguson.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8eJeKgdoQk http://vimeo.com/39717228 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TcaP6lK7B0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJpxecwxVJA New York Amsterdam News`

Stagecoach Mary Fields c 1832 - 1914	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fields http://www.blackcowboys.com/maryfields.htm http://www.badassoftheweek.com/fields.html http://hot1073jamz.com/founder-stagecoach-mary-video/ http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/shoulders-our-freedom- fighters/30343-mary-fields-stagecoach-mary-1800s.html`

Juan Flores 1943 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Flores_%28professor%29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQhvxaXVtU http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/chronicles/interview-juan-flores http://www.afropop.org/wp/11890/a-conversation- with-juan-flores-on-puerto-rican-music-in-the-u-s/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/nyregion/juan-flores-a- scholar-of-puerto-rican-culture-in-new-york-dies-at-71.html?_r=0`

James W Ford 1893 - 1957	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Ford http://www.blackpast.org/aah/ford-james-w-1893-1957 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFHg6H0I9cA http://www.peoplesworld.org/remembering-james-w-ford/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamiment /sets/72157601000861468/`

Kent Foreman 1935 - 2010	`http://kentforeman.net/ http://kentforeman.net/video_daskapital.htm http://kentforeman.net/video_chicago.htm http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/2787489-418/foreman- poetry-chicago-daughter-poet.html#.VBbtPRawWSo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI2dYlEm6Mw`

James Forman 1928 - 2005	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Tv7f0TJR8&list=PLrgONKnX_ MJE3OYDyZrJOvE08ZxlLr09r http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvr6OTzdAk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkmDCaBJDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_IOs34fps8 http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interview/james-forman`

Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke Fouse 1875 - 1952	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fouse http://ukyarchives.blogspot.com/2013/03/elizabeth- beatrice-cooke-fouse.html http://kdl.kyvl.org/?f[source_s][]=Fouse+family+photographs http://www.kentucky.com/2013/02/27/2533912/black- history-month-womens-clubs.html`

Hoyt Fuller 1923 - 1981	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyt_W._Fuller http://www.nathanielturner.com/towardsablackaesthetichoytwfuller.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=MbIDAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_all_issues_ r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1960#all_issues_anchor http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3465202/ http://findingaid.auctr.edu/arc/view?docId=ead/auctr.edu/hoyt_william_ fuller.xml;query=hoyt%20fuller%20papers;brand=default`

Alvenia Fulton 1893 - 1999	`http://anndandridgepublicrelations.ning.com/profiles/ blogs/dr-alvenia-fulton-world-renown-nutritionist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp_b-fHk7J0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1MXcat3Yo http://lists.topica.com/lists/TheBlackList/read/ message.html?sort=d&mid=909715224&start=2`

Marcus Garvey 1887 - 1940	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycPDPuaNWk` `http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLG_OyZ2H7A`

Vicky Garvin 1915 - 2007	`http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org /2007-June/002169.html http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2007/10/vicki-ama-garvin- 1915-2007-organizer.html` `http://ajamuriffs.typepad.com/sankofa_meets_the_future/page/7/` `http://books.google.com/books?id=X3MbIyzDsfcC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r &cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false`

Dick Gregory 1932 - 2017	`http://dickgregory.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhYTk0blzu8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwRPMJCoRKY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goGMcHEsj30`

Prathia Hall 1940 - 2002	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prathia_Hall http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/prathia_hall.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eVI3N697OY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8_0oPHfkK4 http://www.somethingwithin.com/blog/?p=312`

Stuart Hall 1929 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_%28cultural_theorist%29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDR47aFX2c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gf0KUxgZfI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKm8MW-FdX0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gf0KUxgZfI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy57O9ZMENA`

Fannie Lou Hamer 1917 - 1977	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex45Hw11JBQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAqdCIC74k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TchoKJrvFQ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/freedomsummer-hamer/ http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/2/29/redefining_black_power_ pacifica_archives_city_lights_books_reflect_on_the_state_of_black_america`

John L Hancox 1904 - 1992	`http://aboutpeonage.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-voice-of- sharecropper-john-l-hancox.html http://www.amazon.com/John-L-Handcox-Stories-Southern/dp/B00070QHTQ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13721923-sharecropper-s-troubadour http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/01/07/sharecroppers-troubadour-the- life-of-singer-union-organizer-john-handcox/`

Chris Hani 1942 - 1993	http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=2294 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-yDaQNsQ98 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0IGS2ZD_5A&index=4&list=PLnrO__ RQ-p91PGDHcXoAQLOxx49BUNVMo http://www.chi.org.za/ http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014/04/10/remembering-chris-hani

Lorraine Hansberry 1930 - 1965	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqWB_tdPs0 http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/lorraine_hansberry/ http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/tpalacios/files/ela11araisininthesun.pdf http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/29de04b5-da2a-4bda-aa03-1239923d2817/ a-raisin-in-the-sun-revisited-lorraine-hansberry-interview/

Vincent Harding 1931 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Harding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GcgU3SReS4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGoAvmYSl4A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWKyP-WUdXg http://www.c-span.org/person/?vincentharding vincent harding democracy now http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/08/23/ august-23-2013-vincent-harding-extended-interview/19784/`

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 - 1911	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Harper http://www.poemhunter.com/frances-ellen-watkins-harper-2/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9t3ECQmmU8 http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/2840 http://www.blackpast.org/1866-frances-ellen-watkins-harper-we-are-all-bound-together-0`

Ollie Harrington 1912 - 1995	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington http://www.aacvr-germany.org/index.php?option=com_ content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=17 https://www.google.com/search?q=ollie+harrington+google +images&client=firefox-a&hs=Hab&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:o fficial&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa= X&ei=vYJ6VIOaF7OPsQTz2YCQCQ&ved=0CCIQsAQ&biw=1102&bih=726 http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/ journals/african_american_review/v044/44.3.brown.pdf`

Hubert Harrison 1883 - 1927	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Harrison` `http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/ pdfs/Harrison_Hubert_H.pdf` `http://www.jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green___ b_1__hubert_harrison___i_the_voice_of_76560.htm` `http://www.jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green ___b_3__hubert_harrison_br___center___fo_86150.htm`

Vivian Harsh 1890 - 1960	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_G._Harsh http://www.blackpast.org/aah/harsh-vivian-gordon-1890-1960 http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/ vivian-g-harsh-preserver-history-african-america http://www.chipublib.org/vivian-g-harsh-research-collection/ http://old.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/woodson-regional/p/FeatHarsh/`

James Haughton 1930 - 2016	http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/james-haughton-who-fought-racial- barriers-in-building-trades-dies-at-86.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1 http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20945 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7038/ http://nyatwork.tumblr.com/post/14884371691/construction-coalitions-rebuild-image

Harry Haywood 1898 - 1985	`http://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/harry-haywood-archive/` `http://www.marxists.org/archive/haywood/` `http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851384?rgn=main;view=text` `http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19390218&id=WNUmAAAAIBAJ& sjid=tAIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2786,694289`

Tim Hector 1942 - 2002	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hector http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/hector.html http://www.caribantigua.com/antigua/opinions/opinion- pieces/5564-vc-bird-in-retrospect-.html http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/510 http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/183`

Anna Arnold Hedgeman 1899 - 1990	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Arnold_Hedgeman http://cooperproject.org/march-on-washington-remember-anna-hedgeman/ http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/letter-anna-hedgeman-mlk http://womenshistory.about.com/od/second-wave-feminists/a/Anna-Arnold-Hedgeman.htm https://blackwomenwhoknowtheirworth.wordpress.com/tag/anna-arnold-hedgeman/`

Dorothy Irene Height 1912 - 2010	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Height http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/03/24/dorothy -irene-height-godmother-of-the-civil-rights-movement-was-a-portrait-in- powerful-change-google-doodle-salutes-her-accordingly/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa0kr42XYk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kc-Y8pd__s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV2h1rE47F8 http://www.visionaryproject.org/heightdorothy/`

Lola Hendricks 1932 -2013	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Hendricks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-skKNB8dDo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqa2c8qu1LA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up_-QTsHvL8 http://d43fweuh3sg51.cloudfront.net/media/assets/ wgbh/iml04/iml04_doc_fulllhen/iml04_doc_fulllhen.pdf`

Gil Scott Heron 1949 - 2011	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkwjIDITti8&list=PL8887D870AE65BE49 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVNORb4RvBw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhQIxBDTkU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3od114a4o7Y`

Charity Hicks 19__ - 2014	`http://detroitinterviews.tumblr.com/post/87709112777/charity-hicks-on- april-26-2014-at-cass-corridor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETGJPIPJxTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6gPDbXVBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1I4eThoAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-flhJJs1ESI`

Pat Hill 1951 - 2017	`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XiHKvPPoxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvaIk06TtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS8dBmxRsB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOVXwpAmec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3y87QS-IU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwwpTtXmg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHmiJN4Q1D4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGEx_kWQFY`

Billie Holiday 1915 - 1959	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1LfT1MvzI` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDZOX9IdKs` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiPCpENAM8` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVXNWdHDq8`

Lena Horne 1917 - 2010	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Horne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknMjEazRtI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E432cI5V3c http://www.lena-horne.com/60_minutes_transcript_lena.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/lena- horne-was-more-than_b_574561.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3qkz85ctQ`

Charles Houston 1895 - 1950	`http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-charles-hamilton-houston http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/3-organized/ charles-houston.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8yiLq8GufI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kWZXxu0cP0 http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/stakeman/brown-v-board -of-education?path=naacps-dyer-anti-lynching-bill-campaign`

Langston Hughes 1902 - 1967	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions /langstonhughes/av.html http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inP76rkYUso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM7HSOwJw20`

Jessica Huntley 1927 - 2013	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQFCLvH6A8I http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/27/jessica-huntley http://www.gusjohn.com/2013/10/jessica-huntley-veteran- political-and-cultural-activist-dies-at-86/ http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/jessica-huntley- embodiment-black-british-culture http://www.thewowa.com/en/top/detail/ed5dszuo.html`

Alpheus Hunton 1903 - 1970	`http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20646` `http://keywiki.org/William_Alphaeus_Hunton` `http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHunton%2C+Alphaeus%2C&qt=hot_author` `http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2007/10/pioneers-in-pan-africanism-dr-alphaeus.html` `http://books.google.com/books?id=NV2MtmlurRYC&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=Alphaeus+Hunton+ crisis&source=bl&ots=Zzxc99FCM2&sig=qJlzuH2TXGpcMj2NxWgsQh1zQwo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oNrfU7X RBoK3yASGs4GwDQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Alphaeus%20Hunton%20crisis&f=false`

Zora Neale Hurston 1891 - 1960	`http://zoranealehurston.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w96piasYgXo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmSIhCY3dRA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlyB-_K6Z0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIstknEW4ks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgajJiKt-l0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPrN-zYZc4&list =PLQA-MEPAPXIFXa5uRasiPrA-ALsjJFxD-`

George Jackson 1941 - 1971	`http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/soledadbro.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFr-1JRfr9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKh-agZxePM http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/George_Jackson/pdf/35th_anniversary_of_the_ martyrdom_of_George_Lester_Jackson.pdf http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/George_Jackson/George_Jackson_index.html http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/george-jackson-a- song-by-bob-dylan-1971/`

Mahalia Jackson 1911 - 1972	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalia_Jackson http://www.npr.org/artists/15355551/mahalia-jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-UwQMkWLKE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as1rsZenwNc http://americanroutes.wwno.org/archives/artist/551/mahalia-jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlW1_lGInk`

C L R James 1901 - 1989	`http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viwYx3uIYiU` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppGjCQB-0Q` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gf0KUxgZfI` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7n7M6nAOA`

Eddie Jefferson 1918 - 1979	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Jefferson http://www.gallery41.com/JazzArtists/EddieJefferson.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as-dtuwA1kc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ZHeLhsQ14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-YeVTrx8w&list=RDaP-YeVTrx8w#t=55`

Nancy Jefferson 1923 - 1992	`http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-10-19/news/9204040604_1_mrs- jefferson-west-siders-chicago-alderman http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/jef5427.0754.076marc_record_ interviewee_process.html http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/jef5427.0754.077marc_record_ interviewee_process.html http://keywiki.org/Nancy_B._Jefferson http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Nancy-Jefferson-Park/`

Nellie Stone Johnson 1905 - 2002	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Stone_Johnson http://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/02/08/mpr_news_presents http://afscmemn.prometheuslabor.com/printable/node/4316 http://www.amazon.com/Nellie-Stone-Johnson-Life- Activist/dp/product-description/1886913358 http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/188099721.html`

Claudia Jones 1915 - 1964	`Claudia Jones` `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones` `http://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/claudia-jones-communist/` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r234kDAJTI` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI8BoWxYPEM` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ladg6-q7Zec`


June Jordan 1936 - 2002	`http://www.junejordan.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSTxhYu7-4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnK6SAGVRds http://www.junejordan.net/interviews.html https://archive.org/details/ConversationWithJuneJordan InterviewedByJuliusLester1968`

Florynce Kennedy 1916 - 2000	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florynce_Kennedy http://vimeo.com/76460468 http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01221 http://womensrightsmovement60sand70s.weebly.com/flo-kennedy.html http://www.solidarity-edus.org/site/node/3272

Martin Luther King Jr 1929 - 1968	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordkuKfq5qg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r98tT0j1a0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Bsw0UG-U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixfwGLxRJU8`

Fela Kuti 1938 - 1997	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yM6HLADbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AA6EuZe-k&index=6&list=RDpCpua4dvUXs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozyZEJiig8U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B1wSECScPA

John LaRose 1927 - 2006	`http://vimeo.com/56212622 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_La_Rose http://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/John%20La%20Rose http://www.encyclopediaofafroeuropeanstudies.eu/encyclopedia/john-la-rose/ http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/04/guardianobituaries.socialexclusion`

Elma Ina Lewis 1921 - 2004	`http://www.ncaaa.org/ncaaa_elmalewis.html http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collect/ findaids/m38find.htm http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/ oral-history-interview-elma-lewis-11500 http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a= d&d=bcheights19730410.2.56`

Abby Lincoln 1930 - 2010	`http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/lincoln.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLRusne_7o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUfNAv4zaqo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CdCYucI8Bo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXeE0yBd-Bg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgI294DxxA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7eYsaJq108`

Audre Lorde 1934 - 1992	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFHwg6aNKy0` `http://www.audrelorde-theberlinyears.com/expose.html#.U9P-K7GwWSo` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHzbQNyO2k` `http://alp.org/`

Chokwe Lumumba 1947 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokwe_Lumumba http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf4jGB3fieV-2OI49lA4mVg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pS6-_0XG10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_30epvU5uA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd7rVmnqIV0`

Patrice Lumumba 1925 - 1961	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/lumumba/index.htm http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/21/patrice_lumumba_50_years_later_remembering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UkAFGecf-E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtzfCMHX1Yg`

Miriam Makeba 1932 - 2008	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1emTjr3_ko&list=PLBE510FA4CFB0B815&index=70 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP6CdNVzjC8&index=62&list=PLBE510FA4CFB0B815 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8g5_CoRvM&list=PLBE510FA4CFB0B815 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAaY07zz3H8&list=PLBE510FA4CFB0B815&index=30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwgmOxhUvk`

Manning Marable 1950 - 2011	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_Marable http://www.c-span.org/person/?manningmarable http://www.democracynow.org/topics/manning_marable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRD2ak2MTjs http://vimeo.com/39575484`

Samori Marksman 1947 - 1999	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samori_Marksman http://www.2600.com/samori/ http://keywiki.org/Samori_Marksman http://williamlkatz.com/samori-marksman/ http://www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/news/help- samori-marksman-foundation.html`

Miriam Matthews 1905 - 2003	`http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/matthews-miriam-1905-2003 http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jul/06/local/me-matthews6 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3t1nd954/ http://www.examiner.com/article/miriam-matthews http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/columns/history/collective -memories/librarians-who-made-or-saved-los-angeles-history.html`

Curtis Mayfield 1942 - 1999	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDSYTU5e39Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPLRiDhVIQA&index=32&list=RDVDSYTU5e39Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1xmXOP3lhM http://www.tmponline.org/2012/06/03/keep-on-pushin-the-warrior-music- and-political-soul-of-curtis-mayfield-1942-1999/`

Ali Mazrui 1933 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mazrui http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnr42v3xBN4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn7tQLxQlIw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0Q_5yX6Yk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_sMaRjRQco`

Claude McKay 1890 - 1948	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/claude-mckay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaGTw8xRkyQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UJ_uVwgYVg http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/russia.htm http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/groups/ abb/1922/1223-mckay-tokolarov.pdf`

Carmen McRae 1920 - 1994	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_McRae http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrc96CUi56qYgy0VpnL2vIg http://jamesgavin.com/page6/page54/page54.html http://www.paste.com/video/carmen-mcrae/1012173 http://www.jukebo.com/carmen-mcrae/`

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux 1884 - 1951	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Micheaux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E0NrcnwAE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjrd2C3f6Y0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM3gHmZu42Q http://www.cineaste.com/articles/emoscar- micheaux-the-great-and-onlyem-and-emevery-step-a-struggleem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknMjEazRtI`

Charles Mingus 1922 - 1979	`http://mingusmingusmingus.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48eAYnfgrAo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr6cp42DYzA& list=PLS7RGCX7M6uAwcrYt7aN8e5BZdrN-1yAw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqb_QUsnKbg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ayt_CIRqI`

Thelonious Monk 1917 - 1982	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk http://www.monkzone.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S155sBJE278 http://www.eyeneer.com/video/jazz/thelonious -monk/jazz-portrait-interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9udeWOjjls`

Queen Mother Moore 1898 - 1996	`http://revcom.us/a/v19/905-09/908/queen.htm http://www.hierographics.org/mothermoorebio.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0-kfzbMgw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvlkLmUZy_U http://vimeo.com/45375258`

Richard Benjamin Moore 1893 - 1978	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Moore` `http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/pdf_finding_aid/MOORERB.pdf` `http://books.google.com/books/about/Richard_B_Moore_Caribbean_Militant_ in_Ha.html?id=ooZR-rtpPagC` `http://www.scribd.com/doc/143351462/Richard-B-Moore-an-African-Blood- Brother-on-Scottsboro-Presentation-public`

Olive Morris 1952 - 1979	`http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/ history/newsid_8310000/8310579.stm http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/UK/pdf/Olive_Morris.pdf http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/03/olive_would_hav http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/ http://historicalgeographies.blogspot.com/2011/09/biography- olive-morris.html`

Constance Baker Motley 1921 - 2005	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Baker_Motley http://www.visionaryproject.org/motleyconstancebaker/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t74Jhj7Q5oM http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eop/eopweb/mot0015.0589.074judgeconstancebakermotley.html https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/instructors/roisman/constance_baker_motley.pdf`

Pierre Mulele 1929 - 1968	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Mulele http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://cerclekwamenkrum.afrikblog.com/archives/ 2009/10/10/15371967.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpierre%2Bmulele%2Bchina%26start%3D20%26client%3Dfirefox- a%26hs%3DOk0%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Dsb%26biw%3D1272%26bih%3D726 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=21&ved=0CB0QFjAAOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2 Fsitemaker.umich.edu%2Fviolence-in-africa.08%2Ffiles%2Fmulele_hero_-to_post.doc&ei=hIwpVOeWOs-3yAS FvoC4Bg&usg=AFQjCNGj9VDxuEkDObV3A9xkN1DHeq_hUw&bvm=bv.76247554,d.aWw&cad=rja http://www.deboutcongolais.info/revcongo-01-complet.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oexzf_nv5bA

Una Mulzac 1923 - 2012	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_Mulzac http://multiracial.com/site/content/view/332/27/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/nyregion/una-mulzac-harlem-bookseller-with-a- passion-for-black-politics-dies-at-88.html http://uncrownedcommunitybuilders.com/person/una-mulzac http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2012/02/17/una-mulzac-activist-owned-harlem-bookstore/f0JKTP9DQbfl7D6bEMgZlI/story.html`

Isaac Myers 1835 - 1891	`http://www.blackpast.org/aah/myers-isaac-1835-1891 http://www.douglassmyers.org/about.php http://www.smcps.org/files/Diversity/Lessons/Lesson_25.pdf http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1259/121/6050/html/imyers.html http://books.google.com/books?id=hhSFxq5ZxqEC&pg=PA483&lpg=PA483&dq=Isaac+Myers+ union&source=bl&ots=5-5CrZgnUf&sig=V65eoKxoUhLoCGwOm5ayAPuZyg8&hl=en&sa=X&ei= RLBHVJypDojn8QGE9YCICQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Isaac%20Myers%20union&f=false`

Nanny of the Maroons c 1680 - 1755	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_of_the_Maroons http://www.yale.edu/glc/nanny.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHueGVM2KZQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSH9a6jye-M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3O__j0KiU`

Larry Neal 1937 - 1981	http://www.nathanielturner.com/larrynealchronology.htm http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/community/ text8/blackartsmovement.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=JToDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43&l pg=PA43&dq=negro+digest+larry+neal&source=bl&ots=sQA- adsaLa&sig=9FP7BhbJQYzgqkX126htuCgx2Ys&hl=en&sa=X&ei= qnwZVP69D86PyASerILQDA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q= negro%20digest%20larry%20neal&f=false https://sites.google.com/site/jazzpoetry1/black- arts-movement/larry-neal http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20745

Huey Newton 1942 - 1989	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpMul4ZN7Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7Bh-nTaGM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19WrVx-kS8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NplrUhW79b8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45zjzEVzc4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oIWjbhZI-A

Kwame Nkrumah 1909 - 1972	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjBcRMjOWzg` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjK7sZYkMQ` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTdi8AjZg8` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EGghvHfI6U` `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5CvGFz3Is`

Queen Nzinga Mbande c 1583 - 1663	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_of_Ndongo_and_Matamba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWfGrmIVijQ http://www.blackpast.org/gah/queen-nzinga-1583-1663 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1zX8DA0GmY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOGeIj4J6fM`

Imari Abubakari Obadele 1930 - 2010	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imari_Obadele http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/themes/blkpower/ http://rollingout.com/politics/imari-obadele-founder-of-ncobra-and- modern-day-reparation-movement-dies-2/#_ http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2010/06/detroit-tribute-to-dr-imari-obadele-co.html http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=black-is-back-coalition-salutes- dr-imari-abubakari-obadele-and-his-legacy-of-struggle`

Odetta 1930 - 2008	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVjM_4XHIE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwnAUWhP4hY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jGSiaDj_fw&list= PLWbLw9UdWcoeRLT4DHAm0JbLqn0MfZBfa http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/30/dr_bernice_ johnson_reagon_remembers_musical`

Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920 - 1955	`http://www.cmgww.com/music/parker/home.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3W8Ff_4oFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAQg-55tZxg http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/BirdInterviews.html http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html ?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=237040499&m=237570181`

Rosa Parks 1913 - 2005	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks http://www.democracynow.org/2005/10/25/rosa_parks_ 1913_2005_we_air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGRYS-vmLcY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdctBUEivks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n6iGJr9bb0&list= PL2lUi5qXf9HsD8vQ8-rhhu1RytI-R4hRv http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1`

Mary Virginia Cook Parrish 1862 - 1945	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Virginia_Cook_Parrish http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%22Righteous+discontent% 22%3A+Mary+Virginia+Cook+Parrish+and+black+Baptist...-a0172686833 http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2014/02/21/simmons- college-earns-national-accreditation/5708483/`

Lucy Parsons 1853 - 1942	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons http://flag.blackened.net/lpp/writings_by_lucy.html http://www.blackpast.org/1886-lucy-parsons-i-am-anarchist http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.5451:6:1:9.lincoln https://libcom.org/tags/lucy-parsons`

Louise Thompson Patterson 1901 -1999	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Thompson_Patterson http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2860 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIdccITUolk http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/patterson869/printable/ http://www.defendingdissent.org/fame/index.php?title=Louise_Thompson_Patterson http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/19/local/me-12086`

William L Patterson 1891 - 1980	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Patterson http://www.keywiki.org/William_L._Patterson http://norcal.cpusa.org/?p=1188 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AeXp4iYRE http://spartacus-educational.com/USApattersonW.htm`

Nelson Perry 1923 - 2015	`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZ4iFCXnsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhTZpMGHnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTb47BoPhb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5H1WmWe_6U`

Pettis Perry 1897 - 1965	`http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/perry-pettis-1897-1965 http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Perry,+Pettis http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20929 http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts /pdf/31735061537696.pdf`

Ann Lane Petry 1908 - 1997	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Petry http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/01/ann-petry https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter /new-cache-letters-illuminates-life-african-american-novelist-ann-petry http://hgar-srv3.bu.edu/collections/collection?id=122587 https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2632739A/Ann_Petry`

Geronimo Pratt 1947 - 2011	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo_Pratt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCvWo26JBI&list=PLq_O3Ve JoqGyYGvpGVmWEde7JlGoPsZt4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW297Mhr2eA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJpScKv2TJA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcosKNPQuNg`

Sun Ra 1914 - 1993	`http://www.sunraarkestra.com/ http://pitchfork.com/features/starter/9447- sun-ra-10-essential-tracks/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfy2BpbkGe8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWEQmAGeRQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw51E3_BF9s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HotNAXOPxwQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UINN_bQzCPE`

Ahmad Rahman d. September 21, 2015	`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwb1feiiohc&list=PLDCD61B7F54694BDE http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage//bookshop/book.php?CAT=10&ID=1403965692 http://michiganjournal.org/2013/11/05/rahman-named-college-professor-of-the-year/ http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/00feb/prisonactivists_release.html`


Dudley Randall 1914 - 2000	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Randall http://abj.matrix.msu.edu/videofull.php?id=29-DF-10A http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dudley-randall http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1972 http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/life.htm`

Sarah Parker Redmond 1815 - 1894	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Parker_Remond http://sarahparkerremond.wordpress.com/ http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/ biographies/sarah-remond/ http://sarahparkerremond.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/i- appeal-on-behalf-of-four-millions/ http://johnbrownkin.blogspot.com/2010/12/sarah- parker-redmon-remembers-john.html`

Louis Reyes Rivera 1945 - 2012	`http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/louis-reyes-rivera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEm4_gDqOKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkPATENcbSM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFd-r7_FAus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3lNSQZ9daY`

Paul Robeson 1898 - 1976	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW0ge28rEB93N6SSFreMMeA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDb9nM_iiXw http://www.npr.org/artists/15438395/paul-robeson http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/sites/default/files/images/ transcript_paulrobeson.pdf`

Ruby Doris Robinson y 1942 - 1967	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Doris_Smith-Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kly0iVOCtxA http://www.blackpast.org/aah/robinson-ruby-doris-smith-1942-1967 http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/about_king/details/660616.htm http://mith.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/BookReviews/fleming.html`

Walter Rodney 1942 - 1980	`http://www.walterrodneyfoundation.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4_sbAx7Ocw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpV80cdwZuU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoXKgo_HDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lym9R3HZUgI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yv55zh4yWU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2HMUKFm8u0`

Carolyn Rogers 1940 - 2010	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Rodgers http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rodgers/online.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPnhUJIw8c http://www.afropoets.net/carolynrodgers.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/books/19rodgers.html?_r=0`

Charlemae Hill Rollins 1897 - 1979	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemae_Hill_Rollins http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2007/11/17/a-brown-bookshelf-trailblazer/ http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/blackexperience/rollins.html http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/index.php?eadid=MTS.rollins http://books.google.com/books?id=z74vTOrw5mYC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq= Charlemae+Rollins&source=bl&ots=NT-X2aP6f0&sig=2T1z-ni-IBfN0qRQiWtQzu 0XnJg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ddw-VMe_JISVyATqhIKoCw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBjgU#v=onepage &q=Charlemae%20Rollins&f=false

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin 1842 - 1924	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_St._Pierre_Ruffin http://www.blackpast.org/aah/ruffin-josephine-st-pierre-1842-1924 http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2008/01/ women-in-social-history-josephine-st.html`

Edith Spurlock Sampson 1898 - 1979	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_S._Sampson http://lasentinel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view= article&id=668:two-black-women-who-paved-the-way&catid=79&Itemid=169 http://dp.la/item/87e89839777f0929a8b48b0f976b4886 http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu//oasis/deliver/deepLink?_ collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch00037`

Agusta Savage 1892 - 1962	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Savage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koMXHaPlLEs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14P5urRJHo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3WFrb9pQs http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/03/sculptor-augusta-savage.html`

James "Yaki" Sayles aka Attiba Shana 1947 - 2008	`http://newafrikan77.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/malcolm-x-model-of-personal- transformation-by-atiba-shannaowusu-yaki-yakubu/ http://exiledun.livejournal.com/150722.html http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2010/06/meditations-on- frantz-fanons-the-wretched-of-the-earth/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGUJyt-jSoA`
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Mary Seacole 1805 - 1881	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole http://spartacus-educational.com/REseacole.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrim4r-LbY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfW_hX7vUA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsYma3RDdI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfdqVYBSyQ8`

Bobby Sengstacke 1943 - 1917	`http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/robert-sengstacke-38 http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC386fL4zA8q4hpiYTffM2TA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptcyjJNWQ3U`

Mary Ann Shadd 1823 - 1893	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/dc2.htm http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/ProvincialFreeman.html http://blackhistorycanada.ca/profiles.php?themeid=20&id=5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psics-UGS74`

Dr Aaron Shirley 1933 - 2014	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shirley http://capitolwords.org/date/2012/02/16/E214-2_ honoring-dr-aaron-shirley-for-his-commitment-to-se/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My4V5umny24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SzsnGmtsM http://www.umopeningdoors.org/transcripts/dr-aaron-shirley.pdf`

Frederick Lee Robinson Shuttlesworth 1922 - 2011	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Shuttlesworth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNzSe8MH78 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BqdIBg45nQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT-7lMqww0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC8I1L2LcFA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_Hg5uFXUU`

Nina Simone 1933 - 2003	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oCbFFwC8Ek&list=RDgFBoKE9H3PA&index=9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ATogtRm9k8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQjGGJVSXc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-a7l0Gvabk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFBoKE9H3PA`

Archie Singham 1933 - 1991	`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJA1VmgjD18 http://keywiki.org/Archie_Singham http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-10557386.html`

Benjamin Singleton 1809 - 1900	`http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/singleton.htm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=4022 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_%22Pap%22_Singleton http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/benjamin-pap-singleton/12205 http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/singleton-benjamin-pap-1809-1892`

Albertina Sisulu 1918 - 2011	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertina_Sisulu http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/albertina-nontsikelelo-sisulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_46_CIFsBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vULu3iTpAs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZHuJ4M0jF_sgFfVDFzoDzA`

Walter Sisulu 1912 - 2003	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sisulu http://www.anc.org.za/list_by.php?by=Walter%20Sisulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUw8_Ev_6z8 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nelson-mandela- life-story-thank-you-for-your-life-my-friend--by-walter-sisulu-8406560.html http://www.democracynow.org/2003/5/6/anti_apartheid_leader_walter_sisulu_dies http://africanactivist.msu.edu/audio.php?objectid=32-12E-4`

Barbara Sizemore 1927 - 2004	`http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/barbara-sizemore-39 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlKhnMi25MY&list=PLF4E000939A16F364 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10QlAw_JtjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwlXcGJBQqA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bd2MFwq_Eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGr6gerNHBc`

Robert Smalls 1839 - 1915	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls http://www.robertsmalls.com/ http://www.scetv.org/index.php/sc_hall_of_fame/show/the_ courage_of_robert_smalls/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAXNIVAyFjA http://history.house.gov/People/Listing/S/SMALLS,-Robert-%28S000502%29/`

Amanda Berry Smith 1837 - 1915	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Smith http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/smitham/smith.html http://books.google.com/books?id=XCfZ3sBIXvQC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270& dq=Amanda+Berry+Smith+youtube&source=bl&ots=2HLY2w0g-0&sig=SYyTfBgYdEG-f0e0Bdzeh3tqckg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6UBaVNidKsqqyASomoCwCA&ve d=0CE8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Amanda%20Berry%20Smith%20youtube&f=false http://myhome.spu.edu/popep/profiles/amanda_berry_smith.html http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/ r-s/smith-amanda-berry-1837-1915/`

Bessie Smith 1894 - 1937	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcrx2-vvwC4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWs0LsimFs http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/2003/09/ bessie-smith-biographer-chris-albertson/`

Moranda Smith 1915 - 1950	http://www.blackpast.org/aah/smith-moranda-1915-1950 http://www.blackpast.org/1947-moranda-smith-addresses-congress- industrial-organizations-annual-convention-boston https://books.google.com/books?id=5MOtXyGrG7IC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq= Moranda+Smith&source=bl&ots=50UdXtQtZX&sig=w9WSbYYe25UJhp4vN4ZYRCtMe6k &hl=en&sa=X&ei=i5aPVPL4OI2dyASQh4GoDA&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q= Moranda%20Smith&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=SFZ2t1ojGo8C&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq= Moranda+Smith&source=bl&ots=w3JwM833pl&sig=UKthMKQZvLUgk6XaWpDPh68O3 EM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=05aPVMmSH4iZyASPwYDoDw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwCDgU#v=onepage &q=Moranda%20Smith&f=false

Robert Sobukwe 1924 - 1978	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sobukwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyWM_TSLxyc http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/robert- sobukwe-inaugural-speech-april-1959 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRcS1DMY48 http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/quotthe-state-nationquot-address- r-m-sobukwe-quotnational-heroes039-dayquot-august-2-1959`

Eileen Jackson Southern 1920 - 2002	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Southern http://www.blackpast.org/aah/southern-eileen-jackson-1920-2002 http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2989/Southern-Eileen.html http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3052513?uid=3739656&uid= 2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104703517891`

Maria W Stewart (Maria Miller) 1803 - 1880	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_W._Stewart http://www.blackpast.org/1832-maria-w-stewart-why-sit-ye-here-and-die http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/maria-w- stewart-early-abolitionist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZEHW71EnQ`

Barbara Ann Teer 1937 - 2008	`http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/barbara-ann-teer-40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reZE_lCW5i8 http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/`

Mary Church Terrell 1863 - 1954	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Church_Terrell http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/marychurchterellcolored.htm http://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/people/terrell-mary-church/ http://antislavery.eserver.org/legacies/the-progress-of-colored-women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOslTXgtYUo`

Johnnie Tillmon 1926 - 1995	http://www.wvdawg.org/02/2012/johnnie-tillmon-welfare-is-a-womans-issue http://symposia.library.csulb.edu/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external;jsessionid= E9AD176910B4FDBCF026CEC0AD5E898E?lang=&sp=1001808&sp=T&sp=1&suite=def http://symposia.library.csulb.edu/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external;jsessionid= E9AD176910B4FDBCF026CEC0AD5E898E?lang=&sp=1001810&sp=T&sp=1&suite=def http://symposia.library.csulb.edu/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external;jsessionid= E9AD176910B4FDBCF026CEC0AD5E898E?lang=&sp=1001811&sp=T&sp=1&suite=def http://symposia.library.csulb.edu/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external;jsessionid= E9AD176910B4FDBCF026CEC0AD5E898E?lang=&sp=1001812&sp=T&sp=1&suite=def

Melvin Tolson 1898 - 1966	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_B._Tolson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/melvin-b-tolson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5KVsdWSZA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHD0cpFAMpM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQ2cjRR_js&feature=related`

Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Speeches/ http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/sojourner_truth.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HfiryNoXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilHJc9IZvE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1o4zkNPSAs&list=PLk44zu2aq DfsTGBSmJmR4-MB-tFG2J-mP&index=9`

Harriet Tubman 1820 - 1913	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman http://www.oldnewspublishing.com/tubman.htm http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LndJrZcEKto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emudKsEvdpo http://www.harriettubman.com/`

Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael 1941 - 1998	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/car5427.0967.029stokleycarmichael.html http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interview/stokely-carmichael http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/stokely-carmichael/ videos/stokely-carmichael http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/stokelycarmichaelblackpower.html http://www.c-span.org/video/?104471-1/life-career-kwame-ture`

Henry McNeal Turner 1834 - 1915	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_McNeal_Turner http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/turneral/bio.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7FPw-k0Qew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eit4Em2-mBU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0d1aD9FjhA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwUPBGY98Q`

Nat Turner 1800 - 1831	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCchbERU_c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wub3XUoQAgQ http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/menu.html`

Bill Walker 1927 - 2011	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28muralist%29 http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-man-behind-the-wall/Content?oid=894264 http://www.cpag.net/home/newsarchive_allofmankind.html https://madaboutthemural.wordpress.com/category/william-walker/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/artofacommunityspeaks/2013/01/15/art-for-the- people-william-walkers-wall-of-love-at-the-south-side-community-art-center/

Madame C J Walker 1867 - 1919	`http://www.madamewalker.net/ http://www.biography.com/people/madam-cj-walker-9522174#synopsis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3qjlLYszEI http://www.madamcjwalker.com/students-teachers/audiovideo-sources/ http://madamwalkerfamilyarchives.wordpress.com/`

Margaret Walker 1915 - 1998	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Walker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93kwODRo1I http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/margaret-walker http://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter/ http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/walker.php`

Harold Washington 1922 - 1987	`http://eblackchicago.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piP2TlJ-b2E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQw5Zw2imTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGXhsnYWOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS_P5L53f6k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RYiyh9rrRw`

Ida B Wells 1862 - 1931	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXZFdGhhMnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKQJWy--PkI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R747xtZni1E`

Jitu Weusi 1939 - 2013	`http://www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/news/jitu-weusi-got-mad-soul.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQvp9A7ELe8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1CKT6cNcus http://www.slideshare.net/rbgstreetscholar1/activist-and-educator-jitu-weusi- a-brief-biographical-sketch-and-upcoming-event http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-afro- am&month=0611&week=c&msg=IJNEcgfoRpFRfDHjPcKKSQ&user&pw`

Preston Wilcox 1923 - 2006	`http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOtCg_-MG5I http://brothermalcolm.net/wilcox/ http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20926 http://www.blackpast.org/aah/wilcox-preston-1923-2006 http://lists.topica.com/lists/TheBlackList/read/message .html?sort=a&mid=913303847`

Mabel Williams 1931 - 2014	`http://www.freep.com/article/20140425/NEWS06/304250028/Mable-Williams-dies http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/04/remembering-southern-black-freedom-fighter-mabel-w.html http://www.freedomarchives.org/Mabel.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfzH0jT84k4 http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-0266/menu.html`

Rhonda M. Williams 1957 - 2000	`http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12114-001-1005-5#page-1 http://economics.ucr.edu/papers/papers02/02-12.pdf http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Forstater/papers/ Forstater2002/QueerBlackMarxist.pdf https://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg49003.html http://files.kristinsworld.com/Supremes/RhondaService.htm`

Robert Williams 1925 - 1996	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Williams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evueit6WRks https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/mlq-us/pl-williams.htm http://www.africanafrican.com/folder11/world%20history4/ harlem%20renaissance/Timothy-Tyson.pdf http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2978`

Henry Winston 1911 - 1986	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Winston http://www.cpusa.org/celebrating-the-life-of-henry-winston/ https://archive.org/details/NegroLiberationAGoalForAllAmericans_464 http://cpusa.org/from-anti-slavery-to-the-anti-monopoly-strategy/ https://archive.org/details/NegroLiberationAGoalForAllAmericans`

Ada Wright c 1890 - 1950	`http://blogs.pstcc.edu/library/2008/03/24/who-was-mrs-ada-wright/ http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/distant-whistles-muted- flutes-ada-wright-glasgow-1932 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2651612?uid=3739656&uid=2129&uid =2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104850849931 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1532&dat=19321210&id=k4k9AAAAIBAJ &sjid=aisMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2206,8456971` `http://www.lib.umich.edu/radical-responses- great-depression/work_page_650.html`

Addie Wyatt 1924 - 2012	`http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addie_L._Wyatt http://wwhpchicago.org/rev-addie-wyatt/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csNSkb3bIrg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEDABGqxRw http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/reverend-addie-wyatt`

Malcolm X 1925 - 1965	`http://www.brothermalcolm.net/aug04index.html` `http://brothermalcolm.net//video/` `http://brothermalcolm.net/marable/` `http://brothermalcolm.net/mxwords/mxwords.html` `http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp/mxspeaks.html`


Clyde Young 1949 - 2014	`http://revcom.us/a/356/clyde-young-1949-2014-a-life- lived-for-the-people-and-full-emancipation-en.html http://platypus1917.org/2012/01/29/interview-with-clyde-young/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OBtDb4pybg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSAeAJbNVZQ`

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