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An American educator, author, and advisor to several presidents of the United States

Booker T. Washington

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invented a smoke hood in 1916 that he used to reduce several men trapped by an explosion in tunnels under Lake Erie. 

Garrett Augustus Morgan

100

the first African American to earn licensure as a practicing veterinarian in 1949

Alfreda Johnson Webb

100

The first African American women to serve as a U.S. Senator

Carol Moseley Braun

100

a man who was a hall of fame tennis player, humanitarian, and activist

Arthur Ashe Jr.

200

A black explorer who accompanied Admiral Robert E. Peary not he first successful expedition to the North Pole 1909

Matthew Henson

200

The inventor of the door lock

A.W. Martin

200
the first black student a the University of Alabama in February.

Autherine Lucy

200

What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?

What is BET Black Entertainment Television?

200

a hall of fame choreographer and activist born in Rogers, Texas

Alvin Ailey Jr.

300

A black man that was arrested for entering a railroad, took his case to the Supreme Court and ended with the separate but equal.

Adolph Plessey

300
invented the lantern lamp, which replaced the use of candles as the primary source of lighting

M.C. Harney

300

in 1954, she was the leader of the all black debate team at Texas Souther University

Barbara Jordan

300

Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?


Tuskegee Institute

300

First African American to earn a PhD from Columbia university 

Kenneth B. Clark

400

In a 22-hour operation in 1984, he was an African American surgeon who successfully separated a pair of twins born joined at the head

Dr. Benjamin Carson Sr.

400

a journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. Founder of the national association for the advancement of colored people

Ida B. Wells

400

The second black woman to graduate from medical school

Rebecca Cole

400

an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist.

Sojourner Truth

400

an American dancer, actress, singer, civil rights activist

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

500

organized the first Negro History Week

Carter G. Woodson
500

invented the heating furnace

Alice Parker

500

An American educator and civil rights advocate

Betty Shabeez aka Betty X

500

first African American female self-made millionaire

Madame CJ walker

500

wrote the "Lift Every Voice & Sing" aka the national negro anthem

James Weldon Johnson