Historical Figures
An American educator, author, and advisor to several presidents of the United States
Booker T. Washington
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
the first African American to earn licensure as a practicing veterinarian in 1949
Alfreda Johnson Webb
The first African American women to serve as a U.S. Senator
Carol Moseley Braun
a man who was a hall of fame tennis player, humanitarian, and activist
Arthur Ashe Jr.
A black explorer who accompanied Admiral Robert E. Peary not he first successful expedition to the North Pole 1909
Matthew Henson
The inventor of the door lock
A.W. Martin
Autherine Lucy
What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
a hall of fame choreographer and activist born in Rogers, Texas
Alvin Ailey Jr.
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
M.C. Harney
in 1954, she was the leader of the all black debate team at Texas Souther University
Barbara Jordan
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee Institute
First African American to earn a PhD from Columbia university
Kenneth B. Clark
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.
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
The second black woman to graduate from medical school
Rebecca Cole
an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist.
Sojourner Truth
an American dancer, actress, singer, civil rights activist
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
organized the first Negro History Week
invented the heating furnace
Alice Parker
An American educator and civil rights advocate
Betty Shabeez aka Betty X
first African American female self-made millionaire
Madame CJ walker
wrote the "Lift Every Voice & Sing" aka the national negro anthem
James Weldon Johnson