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Dancer, director, choreographer, activist who saw dance as a way of expressing what it means to be African-American

First National Youth Poet Laureate, recited poem at President Biden's inauguration in 2021

Tennis star, only Black man to win at Wimbledon, US Open, and Australian Open

Commander of the WWII Tuskegee Airmen and first Black Brigadier General of the US Air Force

First African-American to go into space

Lawyer who founded Equal Justice Initiative, helping poor and minorities in the criminal justice system

Early pioneer of Civil Rights Movement, arrested for not giving up bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks

First American killed in the American Revolution, became icon of anti-slavery

Mathematician and human computer who worked for NASA and depicted in the movie Hidden Figures

First Black person to be a tenured economics professor at Harvard

American Jazz singer often called the Queen of Jazz

Voting and women's rights advocate, leader in Civil Rights Movement

Abolitionist who escaped slavery and became one of the leading voices against it

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Inventor who came up with our traffic light signal

Film director and photojournalist who showed the struggle of Black Americans

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Disability rights advocate, first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School

One of the greatest baseball players of all time, broke Babe Ruth's homerun record with 755 career homeruns.

Abolutionist, activist, escaped from slavery, made 13 trips into slave states to conduct people to freedom

Her cancer cells were used without her consent to create the HeLa cell line, one of the most important cell lines in medical research.

Co-founder of the Black Panther Party aimed at Black liberation

Journalist, educator, early civil rights leader, one of the founders of the NAACP

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Broke Major League Baseball's color line as first Black player, went on to become one of baseball's all-time greats

Writer and activist who explored the issues of racism, class, and sexual orientation in the US in his works.

One of the greatest athletes of all time, won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

One of the greatest football players of all time, set many records as a running back for Cleveland Browns

Musician, singer, songwriter, one of the most influential musicians in American history

Civil Rights activist and then Congressman for many years, one of the key figures of the Movement

Civil Rights activist, organizer of Montgomery bus boycott that led to her home being bombed, in the Selma to Montgomery March

As Vice President, she is the highest ranking female official in American history, formerly senator from California

Mathematician whose work with NASA were crucial to the first and subsequent US spaceflights

Writer and social activist who led the Harlem Renaissance, a movement that celebrated Black culture and creativity

Singer, rapper, record producer, pioneer in the Neo Soul genre, credited with breaking barriers for female rappers

Actress and LGBTQ+ advocate, first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award

Nicknamed Satchmo, he was a trumpeter, vocalist, composer, actor who greatly influenced jazz music

First Black woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor

Environmental justice advocate and public radio host

Mathematician, engineer, worked at NASA, one of three women depicted in movie Hidden Figures

American explorer who went on many trips to the Arctic with Robert Peary, first person to reach North Pole

Poet, book writer, civil rights activist, recited a poem at President Clinton's inauguration

Wife of 44th President, attorney, author, three years winner of Gallup poll of most admired woman in America

Ballet dancer, first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theater's 75 year history

One of the greatest boxers of all time, one of the most celebrated Americans in the 20th century

Astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, television celebrity for his work in teaching Americans about space

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, first Black President of South Africa after the dismantling of apartheid.

Chemist and expert in getting chemicals from plants to use in medicines

Civil rights activist, first Black child to desgregate an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960

Founder of Outdoor Afro, seeking to bring more diversity to the outdoors

One of the all-time greats in the sport of tennis

First Black woman elected to Congress, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom

First Black person to be awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor

Politican, lawyer, voting rights activist, nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for her work in the 2020 presidential election

Fashion stylist for people with disabilities, advocate for people with disabilities

First Black person on US Supreme Court, successfully argued in the Brown v Board of Education case against segregated schools

Writer and professor, winner of Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature

One of the most influential rappers of all time, symbol of resistance and activism in the face of inequality

With no education past high school, became a pioneer in heart surgery and taught it to the country's most prominent surgeons.

First African-American Secretary of State(65th) from 2001-2005

Regarded as one of the most influential hip hop groups and helped pioneer the new school hip hop music

First woman to be the mayor of Atlanta and the first black woman to be elected mayor of a major southern city

First female self-made millionaire in America

First woman and African American painter ever commissioned to paint presidential portraits, from the National Portrait Gallery

First woman and first minority to anchor the daily evening news in Atlanta, GA.

Also known as Big Boi, this Georgia-born rapper was 1/2 of the very popular hip hop group, OUTKAST

Six-time NBA champion who is regarded, by most, as the greatest basketball player of all-time

Award-winning Actress whose career in TV and film spanned over seven decades including

Hall of Fame running back for the Chicago Bears and one of the kindest people to ever walk the Earth

11 Time NBA Champion and Civil Rights Activist