Black Inventors
Invented the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb
Lewis Latimer
Made the portrait of president Franklin Roosevelt, that was later featured on the dime, and was never given credit for it
Selma Burke
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
Highest paid black actor, estimated worth $450M
Tyler Perry
Person who introduced inocculation to America
Onesimus, former slave
Inventor of the sprinkler
Elijah McCoy
First African-American to win a nobel peace prize
Ralph J. Bunche
"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women"
Maya Angelou
An award-winning pianist and composer who became the first African-American woman to have her work performed by a major symphony.
Florence Beatrice Price
became the first man to ever set three world records in a single Olympic games
Usain Bolt
Creator of black history month
Carter Goodwin Woodson
Became Philadelphia's first black doctor
Caroline Wiley
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair"
Shirley Chisholm, first black congresswoman
One of the most important blues singers
Chester arthur Burnett
The reason why black history month is in february.
Because, supposedly, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were born in that month.
Inventor of GPS technology
Dr. Gladys West
First licensed african-american pilot in the world
Bessie Coleman
The most grammy nominated artist
Quincy Jones
County with the highest black population
Cook
Inventor of the stoplight and gas masks
Garrett Morgan
First african-american, and second woman to serve as the united states surgeon general
Minnie Jocelyn Lee Elders
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination,your creativity, or curiosity, its your world, its your life"
Mae Jemison, first black woman to travel to space.
Hollywood's First Black Film Star
Stepin Fetchit
The BLACK man who is God's son and died for our sins
Jesus