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Marian Anderson Marian Anderson became the first African-American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is a prize-winning poet; she recited one of her poems at President Clinton's first Inauguration.

Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz trumpet player and a band leader

Arthur Ashe Tennis Player

Crispus Attucks Crispus Attucks was an American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre prior to the American Revoltionary War

Josephine Baker Josephine Baker was a popular singer whose fame began during the Harlem Renaissance.

James Baldwin James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, and playwright.

Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, surveyor, and the first African-American to receive a presidential appointment.
Quote: "One universal Father hath given to us all...Endowed us with the same faculties...We are all of the same family."
-From a letter dated August 19, 1791, to Thomas Jefferson


James Beckwourth James Beckwourth was one of the best known Mountain Men; he discovered a pass through the Sierra Nevada into California that was named for him.

Mary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune worked to help educate African-Americans and worked with four Presidents to further expand educational opportunities.

James Hubert (Eubie) Blake Eubie Blake wrote the first Black Broadway musical in 1921.

Guion Bluford Guion Bluford was the first African-American to go into space.

Ralph Bunche Ralph Bunche worked at the United Nations and was the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Harry T. Burleigh Baritone soloist, composer, and educator.

George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was a sceinetist famous for agricultural research and for discovering the many uses of peanuts.

Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman to become a member of the United States Congress.

Roberto Clemente Baseball player and humanitarian

Nat King Cole Musician

Bessie Coleman First black woman pilot
John Coltrane Jazz Musician

Count Basie Jazz Musician

Countee Cullen Poet
Aaron Douglas Douglas was a prominent Harlem Renaissance artist.
Quote: "I refuse to compromise and see blacks as anything less than a proud and majestic people."


Frederick Douglass Douglass was an abolitionist, author, and orator.
Quote: "Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains."


Charles R. Drew Charles Drew fought against all odds to become a doctor.

W.E.B. DuBois W.E.B. DuBois was a Civil Rights activist and NAACP Founding Member.

Paul Laurence Dunbar ***

Duke Ellington Duke Ellington was a famous jazz musician

Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison was an author; noted for his novel Invisible Man

Medgar Evers Medgar Evers was a Civil Rights Leader

Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey was an activist.

Will Grant African American composer

Alex Haley Alex Haley was a prize winning author, noted for his novel, Roots.

W.C. Handy Musician

Harlem Renaissance ***

Patricia Roberts Harris Harris was the first African-American woman to serve as a United States Ambassador in another country.

Matthew Henson Matthew Henson, an African-American explorer, discovered the North Pole with Robert Peary.

Billie Holiday Singer

Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was a famous writer of poetry, books, plays, and songs; he is known as the "Poet Laureate of Harlem".
Quote: "I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me."


Zora Neale Hurston Author

Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson is a Civil Rights and political leader; he once ran for President of the United States.

James Weldon Johnson Harlem Renaissance poet.

Scott Joplin Scott Joplin was a famous musician.

Barbara Jordan Politician
Quote: "'We, the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed...I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'"


Judge Jane Bolin First black woman in the United States to be appointed a judgeship.

Coretta Scott King Wife of the slain DR. Martin Luther King and a civil rights activist.

Jacob Lawrence Artist

Spike Lee Film Maker/Director

Alain Locke Author and critic

Malcolm X Malcolm X was a Black Panther leader.

Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

Martin Luther King JR Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement; he won the Nobel Peace Prize for working in peaceful ways to get equal rights for Black Americans.
Quote: "We must use the weapon of love, We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us."


Claude McKay Author

Massachusetts 54th Infantry ***

Willie Mays African-American baseball player.
Quote: "I don't make history. I catch fly balls."


Toni Morrison Author; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Jelly Roll Morton Musician

Jesse Owens Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This helped to start the Civil Rights Movement.
Quote: "I don't know why I wouldn't move. There was no plot or plan at all. I was just tired...My feet hurt."


Salem Poor Revolutionary War hero

Colin Powell Colin Powell was the first African American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Currently the Secretary of State~

Ma Rainey Singer

Paul Robeson *****

Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was the first Afriacn-American to play on a Major League baseball team and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Wilma Rudolph Wilma Rudolph was the first African-American woman to win three gold medals for track at the Olympics.

Bessie Smith Bessie Smith was a famous jazz singer.

Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice

Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was the first African-American woman to travel through the country making speeches against slavery.
Quote: "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?...I have borne thirteen children, and seen them most all sold off into slavery...And ain't I a woman?"


Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North on the Underground Railroad.
Quote: "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one or two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other...I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time comes for me to go, the Lord would let them take me."


Nat Turner Nat Turner led a slave rebellion.

The Tuskegee Airmen Military Unit noted for its bravery

The Underground Railroad ***
Alice Walker Author

Booker T. Washington Washington was a teacher who founded the Tuskegee Institute to train African-Americans to become carpenters, farmers, mechanics, and teachers.
Quote: "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."


Muddy Waters Musician

Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley had a book of poems published in 1773 and became the first Black American poet.

Oprah Winfry Talk show host

Richard Wright Author

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