Black History Month

Athltes

100

Althea Gibson 

Both a perfessional golf and tennis player 

200

Aurther Ashe

First and only African American tennis player to win the US open and French wimbondon 

300

LeBron James 

Basketball player, set the record for African Americans 

400

Wilma Rudpolph 

First African American track runner to hold a record at the olympics 

500

Jackie Robinson

First African American in the Major Leaque

Actors/Actresses

100

Morgan Freeman 

African American actor

200

Halley Barry 

First African American woman to win an academy award for best actor 

300

Sydney Politer 

First African American to win a academy award for best actor 

400

Kerry Washington

Actor, producer, and director 

500

Hattie McDaniel 

First African American to win an Oscar 

Authors/Enterianers

100

Maya Angelou 

Poem, activist, woman of power

200

Langston Hughes 

Poem and novelist 

300

Alice Walker

American novelist 

400

Booker T. Washington

Educator and a novelist 

500

Gail Fisher

one of the first African American to be on TV

Activist

100

Rosa Parks

Changed segregaition on buses by not giving up her set on the bus

200

Angela Davis 

Was arrested and still had a career in the courtroom

300

Martin Luther King JR

Wrote the "I had a dream" Americas biggest activist 

400

Malcom X

Fought against segeration. African American muslim minister 

500

Fredrick Douglass 

Father of the civil rights movement. Escaped slavery and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement 

Scientist/Inventors

100

Alice Ball

Devolped the first successful treatments for those suffering from Hansens 

200

Katherine Johnson

Critical to the success of the first NASA launch

300

Marie M. Dally

first African American woman to earn a Ph.D in chemistry 

400

Charles Drew

Helped with Blood Tranfusions, was a chemist 

500

George Washing Carver

A agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts