Famous African Americans

Who was the first African American Woman Millionaire?

• Ruby Bridges

• Oprah Winfrey

• Madame C.J. Walker

• Lizzo

Who is the Current African American Senator from Georgia?

• Miles Davis

• Raphael Warnock

• Nipsy Russell

• Thurgood Marshall

She wrote the Novel "The Color Purple."

• Whoopie Goldberg

• Alice Walker

• Maya Angelou

• Whitney Houston

The First African American President

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barack Obama

• Frederick Douglass

Founder of Tuskegee Institute

• Booker T. Washington

• James Brown

• George Washington Carver

• Hiram Revels

Black Troops which fought in World War 1

• The Impressions

• The Harlem Hellfighters

• The Divine Nine

She was Leader of the Underground Railroad.

• Harriet Tubman

• Toni Morrison

• Nikki Giovanni

• Ella Baker

This Famous Detroit Singer won many Grammy Awards. She Performed at Barack Obama's opening ceremony as President. She was known as the "Queen of Soul"

• Nancy Wilson

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Aretha Franklin

• Patti LaBelle

He was a Famous Botanist from Kansas. He worked as a Professor of Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute (University). He created hundreds of use out of a Peanut!

• George Washington Carver

• Malcolm X

• Don King

• Louis Armstrong