African American Studies

One of the first African Americans to enter Harvard Medical School, Delany is better known for his writing, for which he is often called the “father of black nationalism.” MORE

US educator and social critic. Du Bois was one of the early leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the editor of its journal Crisis 1909-32. MORE

Jamaican Black nationalist leader, active in the U.S. He founded (1914) the Universal Negro Improvement Association and led the Back-to-Africa movement: gaoled for fraud (1925-27). MORE

Civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and presidential candidate, born in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. MORE

US Baptist minister and civil rights leader. MORE

US civil-rights activist. MORE

Institute head and civil-rights activist, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. MORE

From Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
An outspoken African-American Baptist minister and political activist, the Reverend Al Sharpton emerged as a national figure during the 1980s and 1990s for orchestrating militant street protests in New York City in response to hate crimes, police brutality, and other perceived social injustices. MORE

American educator. Born into slavery, he acquired an education after emancipation and became the principal of Tuskegee Institute, which flourished under his tutelage (1881-1915). MORE

Some say that West is the first leading African-American intellectual to rise to prominence since W. E. B. Du Bois in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Others assert that West says a lot without saying anything. MORE

Original name Malcolm Little. 1925-65, U.S. Black civil-rights leader: assassinated. MORE