JBHE Readers Select the Most Important African Americans of the Twentieth Century

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: October 31, 1999 | Copyright information

JBHE Readers Select the Most Important African Americans of the Twentieth Century

IN THE SUMMER ISSUE of JBHE, we reported the results of our survey of black journalists on the news events of the twentieth century that they considered to be the most important to African Americans.(*) The overwhelming consensus was that the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education had the greatest impact on African Americans than any other event of the century.

We turn now to our questionnaire directed to determining "the most important African Americans of the twentieth century." ...

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