Althea Gibson
Both a perfessional golf and tennis player
Morgan Freeman
African American actor
Maya Angelou
Poem, activist, woman of power
Rosa Parks
Alice Ball
Devolped the first successful treatments for those suffering from Hansens
Aurther Ashe
First and only African American tennis player to win the US open and French wimbondon
Halley Barry
Langston Hughes
Poem and novelist
Angela Davis
Katherine Johnson
LeBron James
Basketball player, set the record for African Americans
Sydney Politer
First African American to win a academy award for best actor
Alice Walker
American novelist
Martin Luther King JR
Wrote the "I had a dream" Americas biggest activist
Marie M. Dally
first African American woman to earn a Ph.D in chemistry
Wilma Rudpolph
First African American track runner to hold a record at the olympics
Kerry Washington
Actor, producer, and director
Booker T. Washington
Educator and a novelist
Malcom X
Fought against segeration. African American muslim minister
Charles Drew
Helped with Blood Tranfusions, was a chemist
Jackie Robinson
First African American in the Major Leaque
Hattie McDaniel
First African American to win an Oscar
Gail Fisher
one of the first African American to be on TV
Fredrick Douglass
Father of the civil rights movement. Escaped slavery and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
George Washing Carver