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And the Award Goes to....
100
This person was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Jackie Robinson
100
She was detained for refusing to give up her seat and lost her job for participating in the bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
100
She made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends through the Under Ground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
100
Barack Obama
100
This famous activist won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
She was the first African American woman and the first Native American to earn an international pilot’s license.
Bessie Coleman
200
This famous civil activist led the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
This man taught himself to read and write in secret since, as an enslaved man at the time, he was not allowed to learn.
Frederick Douglass
200
This person was inspired to be a pilot after her brothers returned from war and told her stories of French pilots in World War 1.
Bessie Coleman
200
Won the MLB (Major League Baseball) MVP award following the 1949 season.
Jackie Robinson
300
This person was the first African American to get three gold medals in one Olympic games.
Wilma Rudolph
300
Her experience as an African American student attending a newly desegregated school was famously depicted by Norman Rockwell in the painting The Problem We All Live With.
Ruby Bridges
300
This formerly enslaved man performed as a magician after returning to the United States.
Henry "Box" Brown
300
After his retirement, on December 9, 1998, he was advanced to four-star general by President Bill Clinton.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
300
This woman's life work was depicted and celebrated in the popular film, "Hidden Figures".
Dorothy Vaughan
400
He was the first African American brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr
400
In the 1980s, she programmed large-scale computers to create highly accurate geodetic models of Earth, which are essential for GPS.
Dr. Gladys West
400
This formerly enslaved woman used to go by the name "Isabella Baumfree" before she chose a name for herself (the one we know her by).
Sojourner Truth
400
He chose to practice law was because of his experience facing intense racism while serving as an officer in France during WWI.
Charles Hamilton Houston
400
He argued landmark cases that dismantled segregation, most notably Brown v. Board of Education.
Thurgood Marshall
500
This inventor was the first African American in Cleveland to own a car.
Garret Morgan
500
West Virginia quietly integrated its graduate schools in 1939, West Virginia State’s president selected her and two men to be the first black students offered spots at the state’s flagship school, West Virginia University.
Katherin Johnson
500
Though he was born enslaved, this man was raised by his former owners as their own, where they encouraged his interest in plants.
George Washington Carver
500
She was the co-founder of the national woman’s political caucus in 1977
Shirley Chisholm
500
He was posthumously awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1950
Charles Hamilton Houston