Worldwide Interesting People : 162 History Makers of African Descent
by Lee, George L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-11-30
Publisher(s): McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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Summary
Selected from his newspaper feature which appeared in most major black newspapers between 1945 and 1986, this fourth installment of George L. Lee's fascinating pen and ink portraits brings together black achievers from around the globe. Arranged chronologically (from Piankhi, an Ethiopian ruler of ancient Egypt, to Andre Watts, contemporary piano virtuoso), each drawing includes a cameo biography.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. v |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Piankhi | p. 3 |
| Amenhotep IV | p. 4 |
| Cheops | p. 4 |
| Sunni AN | p. 5 |
| The Marinides | p. 5 |
| Juan Latino | p. 6 |
| Blessed Martin De Porres | p. 7 |
| Moulay Ismail | p. 8 |
| Buddo | p. 8 |
| Abraham Hannibal | p. 9 |
| Ivan Hannibal | p. 9 |
| Sam Fraunces | p. 10 |
| Alessandro De' Medici | p. 10 |
| Jean Baptiste Point Dusable | p. 11 |
| Mons. Chevalier De St. Georges | p. 12 |
| Phillis Wheatley | p. 13 |
| Ira Aid ridge | p. 14 |
| William Leidesdorff | p. 15 |
| Rudolph Dunbar | p. 15 |
| Joseph Cinque | p. 16 |
| Alexander Crummell | p. 17 |
| Samuel Ringgold Ward | p. 17 |
| Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback | p. 18 |
| Hattie McDaniel | p. 18 |
| Mifflin Wistar Gibbs | p. 19 |
| D. Augustus Straker | p. 20 |
| Menelek II | p. 21 |
| W. R. Pettiford | p. 22 |
| The 'Almoravides' | p. 22 |
| Joseph C. Jeremie | p. 23 |
| Henry Ossawa Tanner | p. 24 |
| Richard B. Harrison | p. 25 |
| Charles Wood | p. 25 |
| Col. Charles Young | p. 26 |
| Dr. John Hope | p. 27 |
| Lt. Comdr. Edward S. Hope | p. 27 |
| Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois | p. 28 |
| Dr. James E. K. Aggrey | p. 29 |
| Charles Clinton Spaulding | p. 30 |
| Arthur A. Schomburg | p. 31 |
| Bert Williams | p. 32 |
| William Stanley B. Braithwaite | p. 33 |
| Josh Gibson | p. 33 |
| William H. Thompkins | p. 34 |
| Robert Penn | p. 34 |
| Sgt. George H. Wanton | p. 35 |
| Dr. Emmett J. Scott | p. 35 |
| Sidney Loman | p. 36 |
| Gen. Frank E. Petersen | p. 36 |
| J. Finley Wilson | p. 37 |
| Erroll Garner | p. 37 |
| Joel A. Rogers | p. 38 |
| Arthur Dooley Wilson | p. 39 |
| Mary Church Terrell | p. 39 |
| Cong. William L. Dawson | p. 40 |
| Marcus Garvey | p. 41 |
| Roland Hayes | p. 42 |
| Judge Perry B. Jackson | p. 42 |
| Tim Moore | p. 43 |
| Horace Pippin | p. 44 |
| Noble Sissle | p. 45 |
| Madame Evanti | p. 46 |
| E. Franklin Frazier, Ph.D | p. 46 |
| Jomo Kenyatta | p. 47 |
| Capt. Adrian Richardson | p. 48 |
| Dr. Charles S. Johnson | p. 49 |
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | p. 49 |
| Eugene Jacques Bullard | p. 50 |
| James A. Bland | p. 50 |
| Lloyd A. Hall | p. 51 |
| Florence Mills | p. 52 |
| Butterbeans and Susie | p. 52 |
| William V. S. Tubman | p. 53 |
| Walter A. Gordon | p. 54 |
| Ada Smith Du Conge | p. 54 |
| Bishop Bravid W. Harris | p. 55 |
| Lt. Clarence Samuels | p. 55 |
| Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian | p. 56 |
| Gaston Monnerville | p. 57 |
| J. Raymond Jones | p. 58 |
| King Sobhuza II | p. 59 |
| Sir Ladapo Ademola | p. 60 |
| Mabel Mercer | p. 61 |
| Dr. Rufus E. Clement | p. 62 |
| Robert Brown Elliott | p. 62 |
| Hale Woodruff | p. 63 |
| Albert Luthuli | p. 64 |
| Richmond Barthé | p. 65 |
| Marian Anderson | p. 66 |
| Bashir Shambe | p. 67 |
| Dr. Ralph J. Bunche | p. 68 |
| Lord Constantine | p. 69 |
| Clara Ward | p. 69 |
| Félix Houphouet-Boigny | p. 70 |
| Dr. Hastings K. Banda | p. 71 |
| Alex Quaison-Sackey | p. 71 |
| J. Saunders Redding | p. 72 |
| Aubrey Pankey | p. 73 |
| Shirley Graham Dubois | p. 74 |
| Josephine Baker | p. 75 |
| Russell S. Gideon | p. 76 |
| Adam Clayton Powell | p. 77 |
| Chester Bomar Himes | p. 78 |
| Sir Edward W. F. Mutesa II | p. 79 |
| Dr. Melvin H. Evans | p. 80 |
| Dr. Kwame Nkrumah | p. 81 |
| Art Tatum | p. 82 |
| Teddy Wilson | p. 83 |
| Fred Hutcherson, Jr. | p. 84 |
| Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa | p. 85 |
| Laurian Rugambwa | p. 86 |
| Dr. Kenneth B. Clark | p. 87 |
| Billy Eckstine | p. 88 |
| Frank Silvera | p. 89 |
| Sir William Arthur Lewis | p. 90 |
| Dr. John Hope Franklin | p. 91 |
| June Richmond | p. 92 |
| Maj. General Frederic E. Davison | p. 93 |
| Mrs. Iris King | p. 94 |
| Archie A. Alexander | p. 94 |
| Dorothy Maynor | p. 95 |
| Dorie Miller | p. 96 |
| Mary Eugenia Charles | p. 97 |
| William Warfield | p. 98 |
| Capt. Chas L. Thomas | p. 99 |
| Pfc. Arthur J. Broadnaux | p. 99 |
| Dr. Joseph H. Jackson | p. 100 |
| Maurice Cardinal Otunga | p. 101 |
| John H. Jackson | p. 102 |
| Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. | p. 103 |
| Julius K. Nyerere | p. 104 |
| Mervyn Dymally | p. 105 |
| George L. Brown | p. 105 |
| Bishop Harold R. Perry | p. 106 |
| Jewel LaFontant | p. 107 |
| Dinah Washington | p. 108 |
| Chalky Wright | p. 108 |
| Robert G. Mugabe | p. 109 |
| Sammy Davis, Jr. | p. 110 |
| Winifred Atwell | p. 111 |
| Pfc. Jack Thomas | p. 112 |
| Lincoln Alexander | p. 113 |
| Hon. Lynden O. Pindling | p. 113 |
| Mary Elizabeth Vroman | p. 114 |
| Eartha Kitt | p. 115 |
| Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr. | p. 116 |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. | p. 117 |
| Harry Belafonte | p. 118 |
| Lawrence Joel | p. 119 |
| Robert N. C. Nix | p. 120 |
| Brock Peters | p. 121 |
| Charles B. Rangel | p. 122 |
| Geoffrey Holder | p. 123 |
| Mattiwilda Dobbs | p. 124 |
| Philippa Schuyler | p. 125 |
| Dick Gregory | p. 126 |
| James Brown | p. 127 |
| Simon Estes | p. 128 |
| Donald McHenry | p. 129 |
| Margaret Tynes | p. 130 |
| Robert "Bob" Marley | p. 131 |
| Andre Watts | p. 132 |
| Index | p. 133 |
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