Civil Rights Era
Inventors and Innovators
Big Firsts
Let Freedom Ring
Politics and Military
100
Famous for his speech, "I Had a Dream". We have a holiday named after him, too!
Martin Luther King Jr (MLK)
100
He developed techniques to improve types of soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton, but is better known as "The Peanut Man".
George Washington Carver
100
This man was the first African American justice in what we know as the "highest court in the land".
Thurgood Marshall
100
This was the name of the way by which enslaved people escaped slavery from the south and into the north. Choo-choo, all aboard the:
Underground Railroad
100
He is the first black president of the United States of America!
President Barack Obama
200
Famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus and initiating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
200
Invented the sewing machine, gas masks, and the stoplight!
Garret Morgan
200
This was the first black woman to go to space.
Mae Jamison
200
This man escaped enslavement by mailing himself in one of these:
A box
200
She is believed to be the first woman to lead a military operation within the United States.
Harriet Tubman
300
She was chosen as one of the first Black children to attend white schools following the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 decision.
Ruby Bridges
300
Was the first woman to get rich marketing hair products specifically for African American women.
Madam CJ Walker
300
This was the first African American woman to graduate from Yale law school.
Jane Bolin
300
She was one of the most famous "conductors" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
300
She was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in 2019.
Dorothy Vaughan
400
Known as "Mr. Civil Rights," he founded the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 1940.
Thurgood Marshall
400
GPS Foundation: In the 1980s, she programmed large-scale computers to create highly accurate geodetic models of Earth, which are essential for GPS.
Dr. Gladys West
400
This amazing woman is recognized as the first self-made millionaire.
Madam CJ Walker
400
This man escaped being enslaved by disguising himself as a sailor.
Frederick Douglass
400
Known as "the conscience of the U.S. congress and a genuine American hero and moral leader who commands widespread respect in the chamber.”
John Lewis
500
She was handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools.
Katherin Johnson
500
He established a foundation named after him to continue agricultural research.
He donated nearly $60,000 in his savings to create the foundation his foundation.
George Washington Carver
500
This was the first woman to sue a white man-- And win!
Sojourner Truth
500
This formerly enslaved woman became famous for her famous speech: "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
500
She was the first African American woman in Congress.
Shirley Chisholm