Famous African-Americans #2

NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, he was murdered at his home in 1963

• Medgar Evers
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Rosa Parks

he was the only black man to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open and the Australian Open

• Serena Williams
• Roger Federer
• Rafael Nadal
• Arthur Ashe

The first black Supreme Court justice

• Thurgood Marshall
• Sonia Sotomayor
• Clarence Thomas
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Born into slavery in New York, but escaped to freedom in 1826, After going to court in 1928 to recover a son, became the first black to win such a case against a white man

• Sojourner Truth
• Rosa Parks
• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass

The first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress

• Kamala Harris
• Michelle Obama
• Rosa Parks
• Shirley Chisholm

American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was killed in 1968

• Abraham Lincoln
• John F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Malcolm X

A minister and leader in the Civil Rights movement and an early supporter of Islam and Black Nationalism

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Rosa Parks
• Nelson Mandela
• Malcolm X

American Memoirist, poet, and activist who published seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several books of poetry in a 50 year career

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Emily Dickinson
• Langston Hughes
• Maya Angelou

Black explorer who was part of seven Arctic expeditions, best known for being the first person to reach the geographic North Pole in 1909

• John Franklin
• Matthew Henson
• Roald Amundsen
• Robert Peary

Designed, developed, and led the Tuskegee Institute

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