Black History Heroes

Athletes

100

Greatest tennis athlete of all time

Serena Williams

200

Considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time.

LeBron James

300

NBA player with the most championships won

Bill Russell

400

Holds the record as Fastest Woman in the World

Florence Griffith Joyner

500

Holds the NBA record for most all-time points scored: 38,387!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Scientists & Inventors

100

Famous clockmaker and creator of one of the U.S.'s first almanacs

Benjamin Banneker

200

Scientist who created over 300 uses for peanuts

George Washington Carver

300

Invented the air conditioner

Lewis Latimer

400

Invented the traffic light

Garrett Morgan

500

Calculated and analyzed flight patterns for NASA

Katherine Johnson

Actors, Artists & Musicians

100

First African American to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)

Whoopi Goldberg

200

First African American to win a Grammy

Count Basie

300

First African American female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre

Misty Copeland

400

First African American to perform at the White House

Marian Anderson

500

First Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor

Sidney Poitier

Women of the Movement

100

Mother of the Civil Rights Movement; refused to give up her seat on a bus

Rosa Parks

200

First female self-made million in the U.S.

Madame C.J. Walker

300

First African American woman elected to Congress

Shirley Chisholm

400

Served as advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt

Mary McCloud-Bethune

500

Freed more than 300 slaves via the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

Politicians & Government

100

First African American U.S. Surgeon General

Dr. Jocelyn Elders

200

First African American Secretary of State

General Colin Powell

300

Delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

400

First African American U.S. Attorney General

Eric Holder

500

First African American U.S. President

President Barack Obama