Who would have thought when I planted peanuts allergies would follow?
George Washington Carver
I freed over 70 slaves my slave name was Ariminta.
Harriet Tubman
I invented the traffic light.
Garrett Morgan
What is the shortest month of the year that this is celebrated

I paid my fare I am not moving long before Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
The potatoes get cut thinly and fried they will crisp.
George Speck AKA George Crum
By any means necessary.
Malcom X
I invented the pacemaker to keep hearts working properly
Otis Boykin
I was 12 years old playing in a park with a fake gun.
Tamir Rice
This made it somewhat safe for Black folx to travel.
Green Book
Some may like this famous drink in a manhattan or on the rocks although you may not know he made Jack Daniels famous.
Nathan "Nearest" Green
After escaping from slavery in Maryland this person helped slaves escaping to the North on the Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass
He was an inventor, scientist, anti-slavery proponent most famously known for his invention of the clock
Benjamin Banneker
The Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree.
Junteenth
Booming town ran by black folx that was destroyed with 18 hours and covered up
Black Wall Street

When this is cold it is hard to get out ice cream without an ice cream scooper
Alfred L. Cralle
He was the 44th President
Former President Barack Obama
The light bulb itself was perfected by Thomas Edison, but the innovation used to create longer-lasting light bulbs with a carbon filament came from this African American inventor
Lewis Latimer
I was visiting Mississippi and a white woman lied and said I wolf whistled at her and I lost my life
Emitt Till 14 years old
Eventhough I preached about peace, people were told I was assassinated. I died by being smothered with a pillow while white people spat on me and called me the N-word
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I converted day old bread into bread crumbs
Joseph Lee

She was just 6 years old when she became the first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana at the height of desegregation.
Ruby Bridges
She invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery.
Dr. Patricia Bath
This was not the first documented police brutility case this was one of the worse documented on video
"Mama"
George Floyd
1963 Bomb under the church stairs
Four Little Girls