Prominent Leaders
This abolitionist and revolutionary is known for helping hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Born in Diamond Missouri, this famous Agricultural Scientist and Inventor is most known for his work with the peanut and creation of peanut butter. He invented more than 300 products involving peanuts including dyes, plastics, gasoline.
George Washington Carver
This group of dedicated and determined young men volunteered to be the first Black Military Airmen who fought in World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen
This HBCU is one of two located in the state of Missouri and the only one in St. Louis.
Harris-Stowe State University
This African American activists refusal to give up her seat ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped initiate the Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa Parks
This political philosopher and activist was one of the most prominent leaders in the Civil Rights Movement who advocated for non-violence in order to achieve change.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This famous singer, guitarist and songwriter is nicknamed the Father of Rock and Roll.
Chuck Berry
This mathematician and NASA pioneer calculated the paths for spacecraft to travel to space which helped send the first American astronauts to the moon and return safely.
Katherine Johnson
In 1960, four students (known as the Greensboro Four) from this HBCU staged the first sit-in protest at a lunch counter which later sparked these protests throughout the south.
North Carolina A&T State University
This Supreme Court case ruled segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the 14th Amendment.
Brown v. Board of Education
This distinguished Civil Rights lawyer and activist was a champion who became the first black Supreme Court Justice and dedicated his life to fight for equality and justice for all.
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African America millionaire? (A parade is held in her honor every year in STL)
Annie Malone
Who was the first woman to obtain her pilot's license in 1921?
Bessie Coleman
Founded in 1867 in Washington, DC, this HBCU is known as one of the most prestigous HBCUs. They rank amongst the highest producers of the nation's Black professionals in Medicine, Engineering, Law, Social Work and more.
Howard University
This pivotal event was held in 1963, where more than 250,000 people rallied in Washington, DC to demand an end to segregation and advocate for fair wages, voting rights, education, and more. It was at this event that Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream Speech".
March on Washington
This African American revolutionary and activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 in Oakland, California.
Huey P. Newton
This famous American poet and Civil Rights Activist is most known for her works "And Still I Rise" and "Phenomenal Woman" was born in St. Louis.
Maya Angelou
Who was the first African-American woman Astronaut to travel in space?
Mae Jemison
Founded in Pennsylavania 1837, this HBCU is know as the nation's oldest HBCU.
Cheyney University
In what year was the Civil Rights Act passed?
1964
At just 15 years old, this teenager was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, months before Rosa Parks' more famous protest, but her case was overshadowed due to her age and circumstances.
Claudette Colvin
This enslaved African American man from St. Louis sued for his freedom in a landmark Supreme Court case, where the Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court, deepening the nation’s divide over slavery.
Dred Scott
This astronaut became the first African American to travel in space, making history in 1983 when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.
Guion S. Bluford Jr.
Founded in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee, this historically Black medical school has produced generations of African American physicians, researchers, and health professionals, and is one of the nation's oldest and largest medical schools dedicated to training Black doctors.
Meharry Medical College
This Supreme Court case, decided in 1950, required that African American applicants be admitted to the University of Missouri School of Law after the state had refused to admit them due to segregation.
Sweatt v. Painter