Influential African American Leaders
Created the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
First African American student to integrate the all-white school who is also a Civil Rights Activist
Ruby Bridges
One of the pioneers of hip hop DJ-ing who invented many of the scratch-mixing techniques
Grandmaster flash
First school to have a medical program for African Americans.
Howard University
Series of civil-rights protests led by Martin Luther King Jr.
Selma to Montgomery marches
A leader in the abolitionist movement who was an escaped slave and became a prominent activist, author and public speaker
Fredrick Douglass
First Black man to attend John Hopkins University and the first African American to study graduate mathematics in the United States.
Dr. Kelly Miller
Wrote the poem "The negro speaks of rivers"
Langston Hughes
First African-American professional nurse
Mary Eliza Mahoney
The day of Juneteenth
June 19th
Former slave who became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the nineteenth century.
Sojourner Truth
First American sociologist to develop structural analysis of social inequality
W.E.B Du Bois
First black woman to win a grammy
Ella Fitzgerald
A trained physician who was the first black woman astronaut to go into space
Dr. Mae Jemison
What year did Barack Obama becomes the first Black president of the United States
2008
Former South African president and civil rights advocate
Nelson Mandela
Lead attorney in Supreme Court case Brown vs Board of Education, which overturned segregation in public schools
Thurgood Marshall
First Rapper To Win Hip-Hop Album of the Year
Lauryn Hill for The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
First African American to earn a medical degree
Dr. James McCune Smith
Year of the Voting rights act
1965
African American leader in the civil rights movement, islam minister, and supporter of Black nationalism
Malcom X
An educator and reformer who founded, and ensued leadership, of the Tuskegee University.
Booker T. Washington
Art movement that brought cultural revival of African American entertainment
Harlem Renaissance
Oldest and largest organization representing Black physicians and health care professionals in the United States
NMA (National Medical Association)
When were the Freedom Rides launched?
May 4, 1961