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

•   Michaëlle 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.