Phillis Wheatley Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott Emancipation Proclamation
Freedman’s Bureau Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment
Black Codes (1865-1866) Reconstruction acts (1867)
Hiram Revels Spelman College
Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute
George Washington Carver Plessy v. Ferguson
National Association for the Advancement of W.E.B. Du Bois Colored People (NAACP)
James Weldon Johnson Ella Baker
Myrlie Evers-Williams Kwesi Mfume
Marcus Garvey Harlem Renaissance
Jackie Robinson Malcom X
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Rosa Parks
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
“Little Rock Nine” “Greensboro Four”
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee “Freedom Riders” (SNCC)
Civil Rights Movement James Meredith
Malcolm X The Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael Thurgood Marshall
Civil Rights Act of 1968 Affirmative Action
1 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke Barack Obama
Barbara Jordan Mary McLeod Bethune
Ralph Bunche Marian Wright Edelman
Reverend Jesse Jackson Maya Angelou
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Frederick Douglass
Alain Locke Edward Brooke
Mathew Henson Jack Johnson (1908)
Carl Stokes (1967) Tom Bradley
David Dinkins James Earl Jones
Shirley Chisholm Crispus Attucks
Willie Mays Carol Mosely-Braun
Rita Dove Josephine Baker
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Leontyne Price
Marian Anderson Angela Davis
Sojourner Truth Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston Louis Farrakhan
Colin Powell Elijah Mc Coy
Lewis Latimer Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Granville T. Woods Madame C.J. Walker
Garrett Morgan Otis Boykin
Dr. Patricia E. Bath Lonnie G. Johnson
Benjamin Banneker Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Carl Lewis Althea Gibson
Arthur Ashe Muhammad Ali
2 Ernie Davis Wilma Rudolph
Gail Devers Florence Griffith Joyner
Jackie Robinson Marian Anderson
Harlem Globetrotters Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige
Michael Jordan Hattie Mc Daniel
Sidney Poitier Ethel Water
Alice Walker Langston Hughes
Berry Gordy, Jr. Motown Sound (Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops)
Sammy Davis, Jr. Nat King Cole
Lee Patrick Brown Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
Luis “Satchmo” Armstrong Charlie “Bird” Parker
Alvin Ailey Underground Railroad
“Buffalo Soldiers” (1871) Tuskegee Airmen
Amistad “The Great Migration” (1927)
Jesse Owens Bessie Coleman
Mae Jamison Ruby Bridges
Guy Bluford, Jr. Prince Hall
Michelle Obama Dr. Vivien Thomas
John Hanson Michelle Obama
Dr. Charles Richard Drew Condoleeza Rice
Rev. Al Sharpton Oprah Winfrey
Danny Sloan Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Jim Beckwourth (1798-1867) Nat Turner
Nelson Mandela Ronald McNair
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