Biographical Dictionary of African Americans Revised Edition

• Author : Rachel Kranz
• Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
• Release : 01 January 2021

For centuries, African Americans have made important contributions to American culture. From Crispus Attucks, whose death marked the start of the Revolutionary War, to Oprah Winfrey, perhaps the most recognizable and influential TV personality today, black men and women have played an integral part in American history. This greatly expanded and updated edition of our best-selling volume, The Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans, Revised Edition profiles more than 250 of America's important, influential, and fascinating black figures, past and present—in

• Author : Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher : e-artnow sro
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher : e-artnow sro
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher : e-artnow sro
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher : e-artnow sro
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher : e-artnow sro
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 07 February 2023

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked

• Author : Matt Birkbeck
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 01 October 2013

To what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meeting of crime chieftains in 1957? Even in the production of The Godfather movie? A uniquely American saga that spans six decades, The Quiet Don follows Russell Bufalino’s remarkably quiet ascent from Sicilian immigrant to mob soldier to a man described by a United States Senate subcommittee in 1964 as “one

• Author : James Kaplan
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 29 October 2015

Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The Voice Finally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed 'The Entertainer of the Century,' deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) powerful actor, business mogul, tireless lover and associate of the powerful and infamous. In 2010's Frank: The Voice,

• Author : Thomas Aiello
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release : 15 October 2021

In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite (1936–2014), under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a satire of Black leaders entitled Color Us Cullud! The American Negro Leadership Official Coloring Book. The book pillories a variety of Black leaders—from political figures like Adam Clayton Powell and Whitney Young to civil rights activists like Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustin, and John Lewis, and even entertainers like Sammy Davis Jr., Lena Horne, and Dick Gregory—critiquing the

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Emilie Raymond
• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• Release : 08 June 2015

From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn’t always the case. As Emilie Raymond shows, during the civil rights movement the Stars for Freedom - a handful of celebrities both black and white - risked their careers by crusading for racial equality, and forged the role of celebrity in American political culture. Focusing on the “Leading

• Author : Steven Otfinoski
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 27 January 2023

Provides short biographies of African Americans who have contributed to the performing arts.

• Author : Keith Hatschek,Veronica A. Wells
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 15 September 2018

Historical Dictionary of the American Music Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important artists, managers, companies, industry terminology and significant trade associations.

• Author : Matt Birkbeck
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 02 August 2005

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime. A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serving as a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC,