Black History Pioneers
This woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Rosa Parks
She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Earhart
This group of African American students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
The Little Rock Nine
This singer was known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Aretha Franklin
he was a NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts to space.
Katherine Johnson
He delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This scientist discovered radium and won two Nobel Prizes.
Marie Curie
She co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966 to fight for women’s rights.
Betty Friedan
He was the first Black player in Major League Baseball.
Jackie Robinson
This chemist invented hair care products and became one of the first female self-made millionaires.
Madam C.J. Walker
She was the first Black woman elected to Congress and later ran for president in 1972.
Shirley Chisholm.
She founded the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Juliette Gordon Low
This abolitionist and former slave became a leading voice for women’s rights and Black rights.
Sojourner Truth
She won 23 Grand Slam singles titles in tennis.
Serena Williams
She was the first Black female astronaut in space.
Mae Jemison
He was the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
This activist helped women win the right to vote and appeared on the U.S. dollar coin.
Susan B. Anthony
This Black female journalist and activist led anti-lynching campaigns in the late 1800s.
Ida B. Wells
This poet and activist wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
This scientist developed a revolutionary process for storing blood, helping create blood banks.
Dr. Charles Drew
She was an abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad, helping enslaved people escape to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
She was the first female Supreme Court Justice in the U.S.
Sandra Day O’Connor
She refused to move to the back of a train in 1884, 71 years before Rosa Parks.
Ida B. Wells
He composed Rhapsody in Black and was a pioneering jazz musician.
Duke Ellington
She helped design software for the Apollo Moon missions.
Margaret Hamilton