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This landmark Supreme Court case ended the practice of separate but equal in American schools.

This man mailed himself to freedom in a two-by-three foot shipping crate.

He thought armed resistance was the only answer to slavery and delivered a ringing "Call to Rebellion" in 1859.

The Underground Railroad's best conductor made at least 15 trips south to help an estimated 300 slaves escape slavery.

He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, stolen from his village in Africa and sold into slavery.

This cowboy won his first rodeo in 1876 in Deadwood City. He later became both a railroad worker and an author.

Black people in Montgomery were sick of the bus laws. This person was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus.

On October 2, 1967, this person became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

This man grew up in Philadelphia, became an astronaut, and became the first African to travel to space.

She was the first Southern African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after reconstruction.

Seeking to show his fitness for service in the First World War, he rode horseback 500 miles from Ohio to Washington D.C.

This heavyweight boxing champion was stripped of his title because of his objections to the Vietnam War.

Brought to America as a slave, this man was the first casualty of the American Revolution in Boston, Massachusetts.

This woman became the first African American woman to complete nurse's training in 1879.

Along with William Lloyd Garrison, he helped organize the American Anit-Slavery Society in 1833.

He was the first African American to become a principal dancer with the major ballet troupe, New York City Ballet.

In 1909, with the help of four Eskimos, he was the first American to reach the North Pole.

After serving 9 years in the U.S. Air Force, this man applied to the University of Mississippi and was denied entrance.

He was the first African American Chairman of the Join Chief of Staff for the U.S. Military.

In 1975, this individual founded Famous Amos cookies using his Aunt Della's recipe.

The author of, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" traveled the world as a dancer before she became a writer.

On Easter Sunday 1939, this singer performed a concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial and 40,000 people.

Showing his leadership, this man captured the Confederate ship, "Planter" and navigated the ship to a Union blockade.

The first black man to earn the Navy's "Wings of Gold," he flew his F4U-4 Corsair on the carrier USS Leyte.