essay assignments will follow MLA format. This means they must be typed, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins all around, in 12 point, Times New Roman or similar font. Final essays will be 2-3 pages
in length. The first page must display your name, my name, Humanities 370, and the date the assignment is due. Every paper should have an original title.
My due is Feb 14

this is the subject below:
1. 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?

the list is below:
 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