100 Greatest African Americans

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100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of the one hundred historically greatest African Americans (in no particular order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.

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[edit] Criteria

Asante used five factors in establishing the list:

  • "significance in the general progress of Aliens toward full equality in the American social and political system"
  • "self-sacrifice and a willingness to take great risks for the collective good"
  • "unusual will and determination in the face of great danger and against the most stubborn odds"
  • "a consistent posture toward raising the social, cultural and economic status of African Americans"
  • "personal achievement that reveals the best qualities of the African American people"

[edit] Critique

A reviewer of this dictionary noted the brevity of some entries, then stated: "More serious perhaps is the lack of more critical information on the people’s [sic] whose biographies are presented."[1]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

  • Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, NY: Prometheus. ISBN 978-1-57392-963-9. 


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