BLACK HISTORY

Sports

100

Baseball legend, broke Babe Ruth's hallowed mark of 714 home runs and finished his career with numerous big league records.

Hank Aaron

200

As the first black woman to compete on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam in 1956, she was a true titan in a sport that was predominantly white, both then and now. In total, she racked up six Grand Slam singles titles.

ALTHEA GIBSON

300

She learned to play tennis on the public courts of Los Angeles. After turning professional in 1994, she won seven Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal in singles play.

VENUS WILLIAMS

400

American professional tennis player she has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and several Olympic gold medals. She is an American professional tennis player currently ranked as the 22nd best player in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).

SERENA WILLIAMS

Civil Rights

100

In 1966, he was appointed the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an African-American civil rights organization started by Martin Luther King Jr. He marched with Rev. Martin Luther King.

JESSE JACKSON, SR.

200

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity" He was a member of the religious organization, 'Nation of Islam'. He was highly motivated by the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.

MALCOLM X

300

One day when she was coming back from work, she was asked to get up and give her seat to a white passenger, to which she said no. She is know as "The Mother of The Civil Rights Movement."

ROSA PARKS

400

I was a leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. While fighting against injustice for the African-Americans, I did not use violence. My ideas were based on Christian doctrines. My first major campaign was Montgomery Bus Boycott.

REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

Civil Rights Continued

100

On November 14, 1960, she became the first African-American to go to an all-white school in the Southern United States (or the South), thus integrating a white school and changing the face of the prevailing education system. On her first day at school, Bridges and her mother were escorted by four US marshals, fearing protest from the white parents, as none of them wanted their kids to study with a black girl.

RUBY NELL BRIDGES

200

He participated in the American Anti-Slavery Society’s Hundred Conventions project in 1843 during which he extensively toured all over the U.S. In 1845, he published his first autobiography, ‘Narrative of the Life of _________ _________, an American Slave’, surprising people that a former slave—a black man—could write so eloquently. The book became a bestseller.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

300

He (July 2, 1908 to January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967. He was the first African-American to hold the position and served for 24 years, until 1991. Marshall studied law at Howard University. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools.

THURGOOD MARSHALL

400

He became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

NELSON MANDELA