Howard University Alumni - Zora Neale Hurston, Thurgood Marshall, Toni Morrison, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sean Combs, Douglas Wilder, Thomas Sowell (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 204. Chapters: Tom Kahn, Sean Combs, List of Howard University people, Wadsworth Jarrell, Zora Neale Hurston, Kamala Harris, Jessye Norman, Thomas Sowell, Kasim Reed, Stokely Carmichael, Jeremiah Wright, Ossian Sweet, Toni Morrison, Donny Hathaway, Andres Thomas Conteris, Andrew Young, Amiri Baraka, Sharon Pratt Kelly, Ewart Brown, Gloria Oden, Shaka Hislop, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Isaiah Washington, Edward Brooke, Johari Abdul-Malik, Shauneille Perry, Ossie Davis, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Ernest Dickerson, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Kenny Lattimore, George Padmore, Alcee Hastings, Roberta Flack, Phylicia Rash d, David Dinkins, Benjamin Hooks, Heather Knight (educator), D-Dot, George Henry White, Isiah Leggett, E. J. Josey, Adam Clayton Powell IV (politician), Charles V. Bush, Taraji P. Henson, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Elijah Cummings, Harold Ford, Sr., Lennox Yearwood, Karen Carter Peterson, Omarosa Manigault, Albert Wynn, Andy Shallal, Jon Wellinghoff, John Francis Wheaton, Clarence Norman Jr., Edgar Toppin, Oliver Hill, Twinkie Clark, Shirley Franklin, Nellie Quander, David Oliver (athlete), Kenyan McDuffie, Debbie Allen, Ananda Lewis, Alma Thomas, Gloria Richardson, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Lucille Clifton, James W. Holley, III, Dianne Houston, Anthony Anderson, Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Safiya Songhai, Elizabeth Catlett, Rich Harrison, Geri Allen, Cleveland Sellers, Belford Lawson, Jr., Tony F. Mack, James E. Bowman, Kevin Grevioux, Van McCoy, Suzet McKinney, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, Yvette Alexander, Gus Johnson (sportscaster), Walter Washington, Leroy Hutson. Excerpt: Tom David Kahn (September 15, 1938 - March 27, 1992) was an American social democrat known for his leadership in other organizations. He was an activist and influential strategist in the African-American civil-rights movement. He was a senior adviser and leader in the U.S. labor movement. Kahn was raised in New York City. At Brooklyn College, he joined the U.S. socialist movement, where he was influenced by Max Shachtman and Michael Harrington. As an assistant to civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, Kahn helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, during which Martin Luther King delivered his I have a dream speech. Kahn's analysis of the civil-rights movement influenced Bayard Rustin (who was the nominal author of Kahn's "From protest to politics"). A leader in the Socialist Party of America, Kahn supported its 1972 name change to Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA). Like other leaders of SDUSA, Kahn worked to support free labor-unions and democracy and to oppose Soviet communism; he also worked to strengthen U.S. labor unions. Kahn worked as a senior assistant to and speechwriter for Democratic Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, AFL-CIO Presidents George Meany and Lane Kirkland, and other leaders of the Democratic Party, labor unions, and civil-rights organizations. In 1980 Lane Kirkland appointed Kahn to organize the AFL-CIO's support for the Polish labor-union Solidarity; this support was made despite protests by the USSR and the Carter administration. He acted as the Director of the AFL-CIOs Department of International Affairs in 1986 and was officially named Director in 1989. Kahn died in 1992, at the age of 53. Kahn was born September 15, 1938 and was immediately placed for adoption at the New York Foundling Hospital. He was adopted by Adele and David Kahn. His father, David Kahn, a member of the Communist Party USA, became President of the Transport Workers Local 101 of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Tom Kahn was a civil libertarian who "ran for president of the St