Periodic Table of Famous African Americans
Periodic Table of African Americans Part One
Created by Deirdre Smith of JDaniel4’s Mom Based on a Table Created by Lakeland Public Library Key to the Colors
= Activist = Entrepreneurs
= Actors and = Famous Firsts Actress = Visual or = Musicians Performing Artists = Athletes = Politicians
= Authors = Scientists 1
Benjamin Banneker 11.9.1731 – 10.9.1806 2
George Foreman 1.10.1949 3
Fredrick Douglass 2.14.1818- 2.20.1895 4
Marian Anderson
2.27.1897- 4.8.1993 5
Blanche Bruce
3.1.1841 6
David Blackwell
4.24.1919- 7.8.2010 7
Edward Bouchet
9.15.1852- 1.28.1918 8
Otis Boykin
8.29.1920- 3.13.1982 9
Katherine Johnson
8.26.1918 10
Samuel T. Wilcox
9.2.1776- 3.4.1842 11
Medgar Evers 7.2.1925- 6.12.1963 12
Matthew A. Henson
8.8.1866- 3.9.1955 13
Ruby Dee
10.27.1942- 6.11.2014 14
Shirley Chisholm
11.30.1924- 1.1.2005 15
George Carruthers
10.1.1939 16
Annie Easley
4.23.1933- 6.25.2011 17
Marie Maynard Daly
4.16.1921- 10.28.2003 18
Clara Brown
1.1.1800- 10.23.1885 19
A. Philip Randolph
4.15.1889- 5.16.1979 20
Mae Jamison
10.17.1956 21
Maya Angelou
4.4.1928- 5.28.2014 22
Alex Haley
8.11.1921- 2.10.1992 23
Patricia McKissack
8.9.1944- 4.7.2017 24
Walter Dean Myers
8.12.1937- 7.1.2014 25
Octavia Butler
6.22.1947- 2.24.2006 26
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
9.16.1950 27
Phyllis Wheatley
5.8.1753- 12.5.1784 28
Marian Hoffman
3.26.1944 29
Virginia Hamilton
3.12.1934- 2.19.2002 30
Halle Berry
8.18.66 31
Pearl Bailey
3.29.1918- 8.17.1990 32
Barbara Johnson
2.21.1936- 1.17.1996 33
John Lewis
2.21.1940 34
George Washington Carver 1.1.1864- 1.5.1943 35
Bettye Washington Greene 3.20.1935- 6.16.1995 36
Annie Turnbo Malone 8.9.1877- 5.10.1957 37
Martin Luther King Jr.
1.15.1929- 4.4.1968 38
L.Douglas Wilder
1.17.1931 39
Langston Hughes
2.1.1902- 5.22.1967 40
Jerry Pinkney
12.22.1939 41
Carole Boston Weatherford 2.13.1956 42
John Steptoe
8.12.1937- 7.1.2014 43
Toni Morrison
2.18.1931 44
Oprah Winfrey
1.29.1954 45
Rita Williams Garcia
4.13.1957 46
Ralph Ellison
3.1.1914-4.16.1984 47
Booker T. Washington
4.5.1856- 11.14.1915 48
Morgan Freeman
6.1.37 49
Whoopi Goldberg
11.13.1955
50
James Earle Jones
1.17.1931
51
Barack Obama
8.4.1961
52
Condoleezza Rice
11.14.1954 53
Roger Arliner Young
1889- 11.9.1964 54
Jay-Z
12.4.1969 55
Sojourner Truth
1791- 11.26.1883 56
Hiram Revels
11.27.1827- 1.16.1901 57
Muhammad Ali
1.17.1942 – 6.3.2016 58
Arthur Ashe
7.10.1943- 2.6.1993 59
LeBron James
12.30.1984 60
Michael Jordon
2.17.1963 61
Jesse Owens
9.12.1913 – 3.31.1980 62
Jackie Robinson
1.31.1919 – 10.24.1972 63
Serena Williams
9.26.1981 64
Jaqueline Woodson
2.12.1963 65
Derrick Barnes
4.5.1856- 11.14.1915 66
Nichelle Nichols
12.28.1932 67
Sidney Poitier
2.20.1927 68
Issa Rae
1.1.2.1985 69
Will Smith
9.25.1968 70
Jamie Fox
12.13.1967 71
Carol Moseley Braun
8.16.1947 72
Oprah Winfrey
1.29.1954 73
Rosa Parks
2.4.1913- 10.24.2005 74
Thurgood Marshall
7.2.1908- 1.24.1993 75
Louis Armstrong
8.4.1901 – 7.6.1971 76
Chuck Berry
10.18.1926- 3.18.2017 77
Stevie Wonder
5.13.50 78
Aretha Franklin
3.25.1942- 8.16.2018 79
Diana Ross
3.26.1944 80
Prince
6.7.1958- 4.21.2016 81
Esperanza Spalding
1.18.1984 82
Alvin Ailey
1.5.1931- 12.1.1989 83
Edmonia Lewis
7.4.1844-9.17.1907 84
Jacob Lawrence
9.7.1917 85
Arthur Mitchell
3.27.1934- 9.19.218 86
Amy Sherald
8.30.1973 87
Alma Thomas
9.22.1891- 2.24.1978 88
Misty Copeland
9.10.1992 89
Debbie Allen
1.16.1950 90
Beauford Delaney
12.30.1901- 3.26.1979