Famous Black Actors/actresses
This famous black actor is eighty-four years old and known for his deep voice.
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Known for her remarkable work as an abolitionist and the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A self-taught artist who turned to art to heal their arm after being shot in battle.
Who was Horace Pippin?
A poet who was never afraid to speak her mind, was a devoted advocate for the rights of women, young people, and the disadvantaged.
Who was Maya Angelou?
A well-known civil rights leader known for his peaceful anti-segregation protests and movements.
A famous black actor who won five Golden Globes and starred in Gemini Man.
Who is Will Smith?
This woman was the first black child to attend an all-white school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Another of the Harlem Renaissance's faces, with a horror-based style that depicted intense feelings.
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Who was Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller?
This poet was a pivotal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a period of black academic, poetic, and artistic life that took place in a number of American cities, most notably Harlem. He was a remarkable poet who also wrote fiction, short stories, articles, and plays.
Who was Langston Hughes?
Known for assisting in the organization of marches and speaking along with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was elected to the United States Congress in 1987 and continued to serve as the Democratic spokesperson for Georgia for 33 years.
Who was John Lewis?
This actor was first recognized for his impressions on the show Living Color.
Who is Jamie Foxx?
Known for being the first Black woman to serve as the First Lady of the US.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This Artist co-founded the Harlem Artists Guild, an organization that counseled the neighborhood's African American artists, in 1935, as well as the Harlem Community Art Center in 1937.
Who was Augusta Savage?
An American poet who became the first African-American to get a book of poems published. She was born in West Africa and sold into slavery when she was seven or eight years old. She was taken to North America and bought by the Wheatley household of Boston.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
This civil rights activist educated young kids regarding civil and human rights. She instructed Rosa Parks to fight for her as well all people's rights. Baker supplied leadership in the fight for equality at a time when blacks were just being treated poorly.
Who was Ella Baker?
This famous black actress has won a EGOT and is featured on The View.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
By becoming the first African American to win a Grand Slam, this woman was known for paving the path for other African Americans.
Who Althea Gibson?
They were known for creating a vibrant exhibition of paintings which portrays the Great Migration, a mass migration of over 6 million African Americans from the deep South to highly urbanized places across the country.
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
Known for being the very first African American poet to earn the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, and then she was given the name Illinois laureate in 1968.
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Who was Gwendolyn Brooks?
Matriarch of the civil rights movement who traveled to Memphis after her husband, Martin Luther King's, assassination to finish his work.
Who was Coretta Scott King?
The first African American to win the "Triple Crown of acting." They were also the most influenctial person in 2012 and 2017.
Who is Viola Davis?
One of the first black women to become a self-made millionaire by selling hair remedies for Black women.
Who was Madam C.J. Walker?
The Obamas chose their painting The Resurrection for the White House art collection, making it the first work in the collection of work by an African American woman.
Who was Alma Thomas?
This poet was born in New York on February 18, 1934, and ended up going on to become an influential African American poet and novelist who highlighted racial issues, gender, and sexual orientation.
Who was Audre Lorde?
Until 1964, he was indeed the Nation of Islam's spokesman, and that he was a leading proponent for black motivation and the publicity of Islam inside the black community.
Who was Malcom X?