African American People in the Yahoo! Directory

Hall of Black Achievement [read review]
Chronicles significant achievements and contributions of people of color, offering biographies of Hall of Black Achievement inductees.
www.bridgew.edu/HOBA
Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972)@
Read about Jackie Robinson, the African-American Major League Baseball player credited for breaking baseball's color barrier. Sites feature biography, career stats, articles, photos, and facts on the Brooklyn Dodgers legend who ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation in 1947.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Former_Players/Robinson__Jackie__1919_1972_
Johnson, John H. (1918-2005)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Johnson__John_H___1918_2005_
Jackson, Jesse@
Read about Jesse Jackson, the professional civil rights activist and a prominent leader of American Christian Left. Sites provide biography, political and religious profile, writings, speeches, commentary, archived essays, and audio clips of speeches by the famous African American spokesman for civil rights issues.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Jackson__Jesse
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)@
Learn about Martin Luther King Jr., the renowned American Civil Rights Movement leader who won Nobel Peace Prize for peacemaking and for promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races. Sites offer bio, political career, writings, historical speeches, letter archives, interviews, and online library resources about the political activist and Baptist minister who is regarded as one of America's great orators.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/King__Martin_Luther__Jr___1929_1968_
Rice, Condoleezza@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Secretary_of_State/Rice__Condoleezza
HistoryMakers, The
Video oral history archive dedicated to preserving African American history, with biographies and videos of black people who have made significant contributions to American life.
www.thehistorymakers.com
Malcolm X (1925-1965)@
Find sites for Malcolm X, the American Black Muslim minister and a one-time spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Sites offer biography, political and religious profile, ideology, quotes, interviews, historical clips, and chronicles of life and assassination of the politico-religious leader who was called 'Satan' for his vitriolic hatred for bible, God, and religion in general before his conversion to Islam.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Malcolm_X__1925_1965_
Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Tubman__Harriet__1820_1913_
Randolph, A. Philip (1889-1979)@
Know about Philip Randolph, the African American civil rights leader and founder of the first black labor union in the United States. Sites provide biography, articles, interviews, museum archives, obituary, and the civil rights and trade union work of the labor activist and civil rights pioneer.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Randolph__A__Philip__1889_1979_
Marshall, Thurgood (1908 - 1993)@
Find sites for Thrugood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Sites provide biography, education, law career, opinions, interviews, speeches, and obituary for the jurist most remembered for his jurisprudence in civil rights and criminal procedure.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Supreme_Court_Justices/Marshall__Thurgood__1908___1993_
Parks, Rosa (1913-2005)@
Read about Rosa Parks, the African American activist who was called the Mother of the American Civil Rights Movement. Sites offer biography, political life, video clips, news coverage, historical milestones, archived interviews, remembrances, and chronology of Rosa Parks' historical boycott which triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Parks__Rosa__1913_2005_
Seale, Bobby@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Black_Panther_Party/Seale__Bobby
Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Douglass__Frederick__1817_1895_
Prominent African Americans
Capsule biographies and links for prominent African Americans of the past and present.
www.aawc.com/paa.html
Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868-1963)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Du_Bois__W_E_B___1868_1963_
Powell, Colin@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Government_Officials/Powell__Colin
Anderson, Marian (1902-1993)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Contraltos/Anderson__Marian__1902_1993_
Walker, Madame C.J. (1867-1919)@
Find sites for Madame C.J. Walker, haircare industry pioneer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who founded the Madame C.J.Walker Manufacturing Company. Sites feature biography, achievements, pictures, and the haircare and grooming system developed by the beauty moghul who is cited as the first female American self-made millionaire by the Guinees Book of Records.
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Walker__Madame_C_J___1867_1919_
Harris, Teenie (1908-1998) [read review]
Archive devoted to the African American photojournalist who captured images for the Pittsburgh Courier for 40 years.
www.cmoa.org/teenie/info.asp