Black History Month- Key Figures

Inventor of  traffic lights.

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Co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.

Mother of Emmitt Till- murdered in 1955- 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955

First surgeon to complete open heart surgery successfully. He also opened the first hospital with an interracial staff.

Deputy Chairman from the Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party Rainbow coalition  (Murdered)

She became the first black woman to travel in space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle End

Started Know Your Rights Campaign; Protested National Anthem during NFL games 

First African American supreme court justice

Leader of the black Lives Matter Movement; Editorial writer from Oakland, California.

First African American woman to write bestselling nonfiction- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

 In 1968; First African American to run for president.

track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games under Nazi Regime.

First African American to run for president

First African American billionaire when he sold the cable station he founded, Black Entertainment Television BET

Famous Jazz musician  is career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s,