Who would be a good black person to write about for black history other than the tipicals like Martin L KingJr

Answer 1

2pac, honestly. He has a lot of history with the black panthers, he mother also did. he was very political and a revolutionary.

Answer 2

Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Diana Ross, W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, etc., etc., etc.

Answer 3

I actually TEACH American History and I've only seen a couple of students in 25 years of teaching do their report on the Reverend Vernon Johns. There is a great amount of information on him and he was famous for encouraging black market owners to start their own businesses and helping the black community.

Answer 4

Ida B. Wells Barrnet -- she was a journalist who fought lynching by proving that the vast majority of lynchings were based on economic disputes. When African Americans in a community began to gain economically, open businesses and own land lynching was a way of scaring them in to deferring to whites. She investigated the lynchings and presented the real reasons behind them. Her articles were published in Northern newspapers and she risked her life every time she went south to investigate a lynching.

Charles Chestnut -- he was a black writer whose first novel "the marrow of tradition" was incredibly influential.

Franz Fanon -- philosopher and theorist

Ronald McNair -- black astronaut

Cornel West -- philosophe, writer, professor
hope this is a good variety of suggestions

Answer 5

Benjamin Banneker: Considered the first black man of science.

William wells:Wrote the first black novel,play,travel litany,and military study of black America.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: was one of the earliest advocates for womens rights.


W.E.B.Du Bois: was unqestionably the 20th centurys greatest black intellectual including helping to found the NAACP.


There are so many that you need to know about,Find one that has done something that you are interested in. there is so much
info out there.

Answer 6

As you stated, Martin Luther King Jr. *is* a typical example of a "good black person," and as a result, his wife Coretta Scott King is often forgotten. In addition to playing a key role in the Civil Rights Movement, she helped improve women and children's conditions/rights. http://www.thekingcenter.org/csk/bio.html is a great site that gives a short summary of her life.

Answer 7

Write about judge Keith from the United States supreme court...he have done amazing job for human rights.

Answer 8

Michael Jackson, O J Simpson,

Answer 9

Queen Latifa. She revolutionized Cover Girl with coming out with a line of make up especially for darker skinned women.

Answer 10

George Washington Williams
Birth: Oct. 16, 1849
Death: Aug. 2, 1891

Clergyman, politician, journalist, lawyer, lecturer, and soldier but above all historian. Williams enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 14 and fought in the Civil War. Upon leaving the army in 1868 joined the Mexican Army and went on to become a lieutenant colonel. After his discharge, Williams attended Howard University and Newton Theological Seminary eventually being ordained a minister in 1874. In subsequent years he served as pastor of several churches, edited and published numerous journals, and served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881. Williams wrote two definitive texts on the Black experience in the United States. His History of the ***** Race in America from 1619 to 1880 was the first objective account that endeavoured to obtain historical accuracy. Previous writers had used their works as fountains of propaganda and didactic storytelling. His History of ***** Troops in The War of Rebellion was sourced from oral histories from Black Civil War veterans and newspaper accounts. These historical tools are now basic techniques of professional historiography. Williams practiced law and became a prolific lecturer leading him to an interest in the prospect of employing Black Americans in the Congo Free State then ruled by the tyrannical Belgian king Leopold II. On one occasion, Williams met Leopold with a view to visiting the African state but was met with strong opposition. Nevertheless, Williams visited the Congo in 1890 where he was shocked by Leopold's exploitation of the people of his dominion. Williams wrote to the king describing the widespread avarice of the Belgian officials He asserted that the slave trade was still active in Africa despite the outward opposition of the colonial powers and that the population were exploited and deprived of the wealth they produced. Williams spent the rest of his life publicising the affronts to the Black population of Africa with particular reference to the Congo. His extensive travels to Africa led to the deterioration of his health. He took a convalescent trip to Blackpool, the famous English holiday resort, but sadly died in 1891. Williams is remembered not only for his formidable talents in history, politics and theology, but also for his courage in fighting oppression at home and abroad.