Famous African-Americans

African-American who overcame a childhood illness and won olympic medal

• Serena Williams
• Simone Biles
• Wilma Rudolph
• Michael Phelps

He is widely regarded as the father of gospel music

• Mahalia Jackson
• Aretha Franklin
• Thomas A. Dorsey
• Ray Charles

He was an early civil rights leader and executive secretary of the NAACP from 1932 - 1955

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Walter White
• Malcolm X
• Thurgood Marshall

In 1947 he became the first African-American to break the color barrier in major league baseball

• Jackie Robinson
• Muhammad Ali
• Michael Jordan
• Babe Ruth

Famous botanist who invented over 300 uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes

• Thomas Edison
• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington Carver
• Alexander Graham Bell

During the Civil War, helped free over 300 slaves and was instrumental in the Underground Railroad

• Sojourner Truth
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Nat Turner

African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the first 2 crewed manned space missions

• Dorothy Vaughan
• Mary Jackson
• Katherine Johnson
• Sally Ride

Designed, developed, and led Tuskegee Institute

• Booker T. Washington
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass

Known as the mother of the civil rights movement, was a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she refused to give up her seat to a white man

• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Susan B. Anthony
• Amelia Earhart

A civil rights activist and congressman from Georgia, was instrumental in leading the first Selma to Montgomery march

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Malcolm X
• John Lewis
• Rosa Parks