Black History Women
She wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
He is the founder of the Black Panther Party.
Fred Hampton
The NBA all time leading scorer.
Lebron James
He is the author of the well know poem"Harlem" and was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
He played the roll of Bishop in the movie "Juice."
Tupac Shakur
"The Color Purple" was written by this author.
Lorraine Hansberry
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Founder of the National Rainbow Coalition, Civil Rights activist, politician, and Baptist minister who ran for President in 1984.
Jesse Jackson
Broke baseball's color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
"Raspberry Beret", "When Doves Cry", "Purple Rain" are all songs by this artist
Prince
The deceased actor known for playing Jackie Robinson in the movie “42” and T’Challa in “Black Panther”
Chadwick Boseman
Known as the "Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement", She was president of the NCNW from 1957 to 1997.
Dorothy Height
Ella Baker
Coretta Scott King
Dorothy Height
Founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and advised Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
Booker T. Washington
Born as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., he changed his name, calling it a “slave name.” He changed it to this
Muhammad Ali
Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who is considered a global symbol of Jamaican music and culture and identity.
Bob Marley
Dubbed the "Queen of all media," she's best known for her long-running talk show.
Oprah Winfrey
The first African American child to attend a whites-only school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
Ruby Bridges
A formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery and wrote about his own story that included his name in the title.
Frederick Douglass
Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Carl Louis, Shacarrie Richardsons are all athletes in this sport.
Track and Field
Referred to as the "Queen of Soul", named as the greatest singer of all time by many - has hits including "R-E-S-P-E-C-T".
Aretha Franklin
Popular actress known for a massive list of movies like “The Help,” “The Woman King,” Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad and more.
Viola Davis
Born into slavery in New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
Sojourner Truth
Known as the winning lawyer of the famous case Brown v. Board of Education, in which segregated schools were declared unconstitutional.
Thurgood Marshall
This athlete played both professional baseball and football. This athlete is the only athlete in history to be named an All Star in both MLB and NFL.
Bo Jackson
Seen as one of the biggest pop singers in history, the New Jersey-born star had hits including “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”.
Whitney Houston
Brooklyn-based director and actor known for his work that explores race relations. Also known for always having a courtside seat at Knicks games
Spike Lee
In 1968, she became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress and represented New York's 12th congressional district.
Shirley Chisholm
An activist who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, he continued to fight for people's rights after joining Congress in 1987, and he couldn't seem to escape good trouble.
John Lewis
He was the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl in the NFL.
Tony Dungy
Helped shaped the sounds of the 1960s, which earned him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul.". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Marvin Gaye
Influential actor who is one of 18 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. One of their big roles included “The Color Purple”
Whoopi Goldberg