The things you're searching for.	February 11, 2000

Black History Month "Black History Month" is #26 on this week's Lycos 50, and the names of historical African Americans are popping up all over our search logs. Here's a closer look. Below are the 40 most-searched-for black history terms on Lycos for the week ending February 5. We've omitted current pop culture figures like Oprah and Michael Jordan, just to give the historical figures a chance. And while we can't give out the actual search numbers (sorry), we've ranked all the terms against the leading historical figure, Martin Luther King. MLK is ranked at 100%. Wilma Rudolph's 12% means that for every 100 people who searched for King, 12 searched for Rudolph. For more details on any of these figures, we suggest you try the Infoplease Almanac's excellent section on Black History Month. Now, here's the list: 100%   Martin Luther King, Jr. 86%    Black history 67%    Rosa Parks 67%    Harriet Tubman 64%    Black history month 46%    African American inventors 39%    George W. Carver 38%    Slavery 35%    Jackie Robinson 34%    Langston Hughes 28%    Frederick Douglass 23%    Civil rights movement 21%    Reuben "Hurricane" Carter 21%    Booker T. Washington 18%    Jimi Hendrix 18%    Malcom X 17%    Jesse Owens 16%    Sojourner Truth 16%    Underground Railroad 16%    Famous black Americans 16%    Thurgood Marshall 16%    Harlem Renaissance 15%    Walter Payton 15%    Black Panthers 14%    Black poetry 14%    Louis Armstrong 13%    Benjamin Banneker 12%    Duke Ellington 12%    Wilma Rudolph 10%    Black scientists 10%    Colin Powell 10%    NAACP 9%     Marian Anderson 8%     Hank Aaron 8%     Billie Holliday 7%     W.E.B. DuBois 6%     Crispus Attucks 6%     Ella Fitzgerald 6%     Nat Turner 5%     Josephine Baker A few of the contemporary people we didn't list: Oprah Winfrey would be at about 70%, Tyra Banks tied with Parks and Tubman at 67%, Michael Jordan at about 56%, Maya Angelou at 36%, and rapper DMX at 99% of King's total. Incidentally, the terms black and African American seem to be used interchangably, with a slight volume edge to black. Inventors was the one term where African American was the clear favorite.

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