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helped educate African Americans and worked with four presidents to further expand educational opportunities.
Mary McLeod Bethune
led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the north on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
First African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Won the Nobel Peace Prize for working in peaceful ways to get equal rights for African Americans. Always peaceful, never rioting
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Washington Carver
was the first African American woman to travel through the country making speeches against slavery
Sojourner Truth
the first African American woman to win three gold medals for track at the Olympics
Wilma Rudolph
Famous writer of poetry, books, plays, and songs
Langston Hughes
Famous comedian, tv star, and movie star
Bill Cosby
famous jazz trumpet player and band leader
Louis Armstrong
was the first African American woman to serve as an U.S. Ambassador in another country
Patricia Roberts Harris
was the first African American woman to become a member of the U.S. Congress
Shirley Chisholm
Civil rights and political leader who is famous for making speeches to help African Americans
Rev. Jesse Jackson
first African American to play on a major-league baseball team and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Jackie Robinson
worked at the United Nations and was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Ralph Bunche
became the first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
Marian Anderson
Rufused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
Jesse Owens
was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, surveyor, and the first African American to receive a presidential appointment
Benjamin Banneker
was a teacher who founded the Tuskegee Institute to train African Americans to become carpenters, farmers, mechanics, and teachers
Booker T. Washington
had a book published in 1773 and became the first major African American poet
Phillis Wheatley
In 1983, was the first African American to go into space
Gulion Bluford
an African American explorer, discovered the NOrth Pole with Robert Peary
Matthew Henson