Extraordinary African-Americans

Lucy Terry Prince

Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable

Crispus Attucks

Benjamin Banneker

Phillis Wheatley

Peter Salem

James Armistead

Elizabeth Freeman

Richard Allen

Gabriel Prossner

York

Denmark Vesey

Black Seminoles

Nat Turner

Joseph Cinque (Sengbe Pieh)

James Pierson Beckwourth

Norbert Rillieux

The Underground Railroad

Lewis Temple

Dred Scott

Lewis Hayden

Harriet Ross Tubman

Jermain Wesley Loguen

Frederick Douglass

Sojourner Truth

Robert Smalls

The Emancipation Proclamation

African-American Civil War soldiers

Reconstruction

P.B.S. Pinchback

Booker T. Washington

Nat Love.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Isaac Myers

George Jordan

Scott Joplin

George Washington Williams

George Washington Carver

Granville T. Woods

Daniel Hale Williams

Madam C.J. Walker

Charles Young

Elijah McCoy

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Ida. B. Wells-Barnett

Mary Church Terrell

Matthew Alexander Henson

Mary McLeod Bethune

W.E.B Du Bois

Robert Sengstacke Abbott

Garrett Augustus Morgan

William Christopher Handy

Henry Johnson

Bessie Smith

The great northern migration

James Weldon Johnson

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman

Marcus Garvey

Harlem renaissance

Louis Armstrong

Zora Neale Hurston.

Langston Hughes

Alain Leroy Locke

Carter G. Woodson

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington

Charles Hamilton Houston

Jesse Owens

Billie Holiday

Ella Fitzgerald

Richard Wright

Julian Francis Abele

Paul Rever Williams

Paul Robeson

Joe Louis

Marian Anderson

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

Asa Philip Randolph

Charles Richard Drew

Jackie Robinson

Gordon Parks

Percy Lavon Julian

Ralph Bunche

Miles Davis

John Coltrane

Lorraine Hansberry

James Baldwin

Wilma Rudolph

Rosa Parks

Alex Palmer Haley

Ella Josephine Baker

Thurgood Marshall

The Little Rock nine

Medgar Evans

Sit-ins.

Freedom Riders

Fannie Lou Hamer

Malcolm X

The 1963 march on Washington

Roy Wilkins

Alvin Ailey

Arthur Mitchell

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The black power movement

Marian Wright Edelman

Maya Angelou

Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr.

Mae C. Jemison

Muhammad Ali

Toni Morrison

Jesse Jackson

John Robert Lewis

Bill Cosby

Colin Luther Powell

Alice Walker

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron

Oprah Winfrey

Michael Jeffrey Jordan

Benjamin S. Carson

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee

Tiger Woods.