Reference no: EM131262204

Critical analysis of a famous African American from the list provided on Blackboard. In this assignment you will provide a developed close reading that examines one of the themes the course has outlined as it applies to the person chosen. How did/does this person effected the critical theme for the African American community? How did/do they affect the working definition of African American, black, and/or blackness within and without the community?

List:

Dr. Paul Murray
-  Bessie Coleman
-  Jean-Bapiste Belley
-  Harriet Elizabeth Brown
-  Monte Irvin
-  Shirley Graham Dubois
-  Vernon Dahmer
-  Hale Woodruff
-  Jo Ann Robinson
-  Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson
-  Dr. Francis Cress Welsing
-  Dr. Kenneth Clark
-  Amy Jacques Garvey
-  Ophelia DeVore
-  Augusta Fells Savage
-  Eugene Jacques Bullard
-  Bobby Timmons
-  Clyde Kennard
-  Madison Washington
-  Joseph Winters
-  Sam Sharpe
-  Joseph Rainey
-  Bessie Stringfield
-  DJ Kool Herc
-  Lonnie Clayton
-  Mrs. Mamie Lang Kirkland
-  Lucius Septimius Bassianus
-  Carolyn Gudger
-  Jasmine Twitty
-  Daisy Bates
-  Ella Jenkins
-  Lewis Henry Douglass
-  Cynthia Robinson
-  Sylvester Magee
-  Mabel Fairbanks
-  Cathay Williams
-  Clara Belle Williams
-  John Baxter Taylor Jr.
-  Anna J. Cooper
-  The Black Seminoles
-  Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
-  Matthew Williams
-  Phillipa Schuyler
-  Yarrow Mamout
-  Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
-  Frank E. Petersen
-  "Miss Maggie" Walker
-  Paul Robeson
-  Olivia J. Hooker
-  Dr. Henry T Sampson
-  Lovie Yancy
-  Willie James Howard
-  Toni Stone (Marcenia Lyle Alberga)
-  Lucien Victor Alexis
-  Mevinia Sheilds
-  Dr. Lonnie Smith
-  Rosewood
-  Miss Jane Pittman
-  Lucy Terry
-  Abraham Galloway
-  Thomas Jennings
-  Irene Morgan
-  Paul Lawrence Dunbar
-  Jean Toomer
-  Doris Payne
-  Ann Petry
-  Madam C.J. Walker
-  Dr. May Edward Chinn
-  Greenwood, Tulsa, OK
-  Karen Bass
-  Dr. Dorothy Height
-  Dr. Geneva Smitherman
-  Michae¨lle Jean
-  Robin Kelly
-  Mary Macleod Bethune
-  Jane Bolin
-  Donna Edwards
-  Dame Eugenia Charles
-  Dr. Thomas Elkins
-  Wilma Rudolph
-  Annie Malone
-  Ann Lowe
-  Black Wall Street
-  Cathy Hughes
-  Kamala Harris
-  Fannie Lou Hamer
-  Sarah Rector
-  Ruth Simmons
-  Claudette Colvin
-  MC Lyte
-  Benajin Banneker
-  Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
-  Thurgood Marshall
-  Doris "Dorie" Miller
-  Cecil Noble
-  WC Handy
-  Dorothy Counts
-  Bayard Rustin
-  Dr. Eliza Ann Grier
-  Matthew Henson
-  Jesse Owens
-  Nina Simone
-  Wendell Scott
-  Adam Clayton Powell
-  Percy Julian
-  Dr. Charles Drew
-  Thomas "Fats" Waller
-  Satchel Paige
-  Bass Reeves
-  Marian Anderson
-  Josephine Baker
-  Joe Louis
-  Walter White
-  William Hastie
-  Elijah McCoy
-  Jan Matzelger
-  Lewis Latimer
-  Granville T. Woods
-  Fred Jones
-  Nella Larsen
-  Lloyd Hall
-  A. Philip Randolph
-  Althea Gibson
-  Barbara C. Jordon
-  Marcus Garvey
-  Malcolm X
-  James Meridith
-  Guy Buford
-  Hazel Scott
-  Stokely Carmichal
-  Denmark Vessey
-  Alex Haley
-  Virginia Hamilton
-  Ishmael Reed
-  Nalo Hopkinson
-  George Schuyler
-  Patricia Roberts Harris
-  John Lewis
-  Les McCann
-  Martin Delany
-  Derek Walcott
-  Carter Godwin Woodson
-  Alvin Ailey
-  Debbie Allen
-  Ralph Abernathy
-  Arthur Ashe
-  Crispus Attucks
-  Amiri Baraka
-  Sekou Sundiata
-  Count Basie
-  Bud Powell
-  James "Cool Papa" Bell
-  Pfc. Sarah Louise Keys
-  Josh Gibson
-  Harry Belafonte
-  Ruby Bridges
-  The Little Rock 9
-  The Scottsboro Boys
-  Ralph Bunche
-  Cab Calloway
-  Louis Jordan
-  Emmett Till
-  Kenneth B. Clarke
-  Alice Coltrane
-  Scatman Crothers
-  Nipsy Russell
-  Dorothy Dandrige
-  Ruby Dee
-  Miles Davis
-  "Fats" Domino
-  Ralph Ellison
-  Duke Ellington
-  Medgar Evers
-  The Watts Prophets
-  Dick Gregory
-  The Greensboro Four
-  Archie Shepp
-  Gregory Hines
-  John Lee Hooker
-  bell hooks
-  Roy Innis
-  Eartha Kitt
-  Nichelle Nichols
-  Hattie McDaniel
-  Butterfly McQueen
-  Thelonius Monk
-  Garrett Morgan
-  Walter Mosley
-  Odetta
-  Gordon Parks
-  Dr. Joseph Lowery
-  Homer Plessy
-  Gabriel Prosser
-  Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
-  Norbert Rillieux
-  Oscar Peterson
-  Esther Rolle
-  Robert Smalls
-  Wallace Thurman
-  Maxine Waters
-  Daniel Hale Williams
-  August Wilson
-  Cassandra Wilson
-  Richard Wright
-  Howlin' Wolf
-  Andrew Young
-  James Van Der Zee
-  B.K. Bruce
-  Aaron Douglas
-  Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable
-  Estevancio
-  Sarah S. Goode
-  Mae C. Jemison
-  Jacob Lawrence
-  Ella Baker
-  Minnie Joycelyn Elders
-  Esther Jones
-  Frances Harper
-  Harriet Wilson
-  Scott Joplin
-  Sister Rosetta Tharpe
-  Elijah McCoy

Themes of the course are attached (community, call/response), choose one of the people above, and help me to write a two to three pages MLA essay about how this people affect the theme.