100 Greatest African Americans

100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia

Author	Molefi Kete Asante
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	African-American biographies
Published	2002
Publisher	Prometheus Books
Pages	345
ISBN	978-1-57392-963-9

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

Criteria

Asante used five factors in establishing the list:

"significance in the general progress of African-Americans 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"

Asante's List

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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