Black Scientists
who made astrophysical findings and concepts more widely known. (famous astrophysicist)
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Who is among the most captivating runners in the game?
Barry Sanders
Who invented peanuts
George Washington Carver
who did not give up there seat for the whites
rosa parks
at the age of 16, and rose to fame in the late 1990s following the release of his second album, My Way (1997).
Usher
Who gained notoriety for creating physostigmine for the first time?
Percy Lavon Julian
Best boxer of 1987 and 1990
Who created the supersoaker?
Lonnie Johnson
a well-known Black Panther Party leader and chairman who was killed by the FBI and Chicago police in Chicago, Illinois
Fred Hampton
Who is an actor singer and comedian?
Jamie Foxx
He worked aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 as a mission specialist
Guion Brown
The 1st black NBA player
Earl Lloyd
Who made the potato chips and gave them to Cornelius Vanderbilt?
George Crum
For the majority of his professional life, he battled to end slavery and collaborated with eminent abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith.
Frederick Douglas
First black woman to star in a major motion picture?
Josephine Baker
helped bring about the development of the telephone and lightbulb
Lewis Howard Latimer
won four gold medals in the running broad jump (also known as the long jump) at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, setting a global record that remained in effect for 25 years.
Jessie Owens
Who developed the technique known as "dry-scouring,"
Thomas Jennings
The Black Panther Party was created by African American political activist and revolutionary.
Huey P Newton
initially rose to prominence as a rapper and actor on the critically acclaimed television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. His ex is Malaika Terry.
Drake
She helped NASA launch an astronaut into orbit and later assist in landing a man on the moon, but NASA rejected her application the first time around.
Katherine Johnson
who was the best full back in 1957 that had over 12,312 rushing yards
Jim Brown
Which African American inventor came up with the elevator concept?
Alexander Miles
He started to participate in the effort to outlaw slavery. As one of the twelve black men known as the "Sons of Africa," he was well-known for his abolitionist activism. He released his memoirs in 1789.
Olaudah Equiano
First African American Singer
George Johnson