Scientists
Invented crop rotation, or planting different crops to restore soil instead of single-crop farming, and creating 300 different uses for peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver
She is the best math teacher in the world
Who is Ms. Fergunson
He Famous for his speech I had a dream
Who is Martin Luther King Jr
She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry
Maya Aneglou
He was was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, actor, and director. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation
Who is prince
She invented an important assay that scientists still use today
Who is Emmett Chappelle
She was a mathematics educator. She was one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D in mathematics
Who is Marjorie Lee Browne
She was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
Who is Rosa Parks
He was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes
Who is Richard Nathaniel Wright
He was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor who was among the most influential figures in jazz
Who is Louis Armstrong
She was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
She was an African American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and NASA
Who is Dorothy Johnson Vaughan
He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam
Who is Malcolm X
He was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century
Who is James Arthur Baldwin
He was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades
Who is Duke Ellington
He was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university
Who is Edward Bouchet
She was an American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century
Who is Kelly Miller
She escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
He was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953
Who was Ralph Waldo Ellison
He was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century
Who is Michael Jackson
He was an American zoologist, educator, and comparative psychologist, known for his studies on the behavior of insects, particularly bees and ants.
Who is Charles Henry Turner
He was an African-American mathematician and served as the chairman of the Clark College mathematics department
Who is Joseph James Dennis
After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man
Who is Sojourner Truth
He was a Jamaican writer and poet, and was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Festus Claudius "Claude"
He was an American rapper and songwriter. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Who is the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls