Movies
The film follows the adventures of a shy Harlem, New York, schoolteacher who finds herself magically transported to a new Land.
The Wiz
She said of refusing to give up her seat, "the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
Rosa Parks
Self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Muhammad Ali
This flamboyant Public Enemy rapper made wearing a necklace consisting of clocks and timepieces a fashion statement in the 1980s.
Flavor Flav
Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
Brown vs. Board of Education
A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.
Us
First African-American to be appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
The first African-American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Tiger Woods
Referred to as the "Queen of Soul"
Aretha Franklin
Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980.
BET
"You ain't gotta lie Craig"
Friday
Known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Fastest man in the world.
Usain Bolt
She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Beyonce
The first African-American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Madam CJ Walker
This famous film is a story of a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C.
12 Years a Slave
She said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
Maya Angelou
The first African-American boxer
Jack Johnson
This R&B legend was killed by his father over a dispute about money.
Marvin Gaye
A famous actor and voice talent behind the menacing voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars.
James Earl Jones
Based on the James Baldwin novel, this acclaimed romance follows a young Black couple, Fonny and Tish, whose future is derailed after Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.
If Beale Street Could Talk
He made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990.
George Washington Carver
The Dodgers retired his no. 42 jersey number in 1972 and all of MLB did in 1997.
Jackie Robinson
The birthplace of Jazz
New Orleans
Started Black History Month
Carter J. Woodson