Athletes
Famous African-American Boxer
Muhammad Ali
A famous blind singer
Stevie Wonder
Famous for introducing crop rotation and hundreds of uses for peanuts.
George Washington Carver.
American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. Wikipedia
Malcom X
First Black President.
Barack Obama
Played for the Chicago Bulls. Basketball legend.
Michael Jordan
Made the song "Old Town Road"
Inventor of the water blaster. Ex NASA Engineer
Lonnie Johnson
American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
MLK
American politician and attorney who is the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
Most points scored in basketball.
Kareem Abul-Jabbar
Michael Jackson.
Famous electronic engineer. Pioneered one of the first games.
Jerry Lawson
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Fredrick Douglass
American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
Thurgood Marshall
Entered the baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Dodgers player.
Jackie Robinson
Sang the song "Crazy In Love"
Beyonce.
Inventor of refrigeration materials for WW||
Fredrick McKinley Jones
American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, ______ made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
American politician and retired United States Army four-star general who has served as the 28th and current United States secretary of defense since January 22, 2021.
Lloyd Austin
Considered one of the best golfers in the United States.
Tiger Woods.
Famous trumpeter and vocalist.
Louis Armstrong.
African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist
Sarah Breedlove Walker
American author, activist, and civil rights leader and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Corretta Scott King
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Frederick Douglass