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ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,

Major League Baseball Player won 20 games in his 1949 rookie season. National League's MVP

graduated West Point Military Academy 1st African American to be named Colonel in the U.S. Army

Leader of Rebellion seized the ship (Amistad) and sailed it to Montauk, Long Island,NY

Actress & Civil Rights Activist first black actress to play in the American Shakespeare

Founded a passage way for migrants moving to the West across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Civil Rights Leader and U.S. Congressman, referred toas“FreedomRiders.”

Publishing Company now ranks among the top Black-owned businesses in the country.

Surgeon, Established the first blood bank in U.S.

Military leader and Pioneer, first Black person promoted to General in the U.S. Air Force.

Writer and Educator, In 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Explorer & Pioneer the first person to reach the North Pole and place the American flag there.

Public Servant the first black elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction

1st black regular lecturer in the anti-slavery movement and the first noted black abolitionist.

U.S.Congress woman and Politician, first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress

Medical Pioneer, Performed the world's first successful open-heart operation

Religious,National,and Civil Rights Leader became leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

U.S. Congresswoman, National Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Educator, elected to the Texas Senate

In 1877, became the first black person to graduate from U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

In 1874,he became the second African American U.S. Senator--the first to serve a full-term.

In 1992,she became the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

On June 13, 1839, he published Slavery one of the most factual books written about slavery

Sold on the docks in Boston, learned to read and write,and eventually gained fame as a poet

He became skilled in mathematics and astronomy and published numerous almanacs.

Poet, playwright, and Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance becameone ofthecountry’sleading poets

He began a political career in Chicago he organized PUSH sought the 1988 Presidential election

a founder of the female anti-slavery society, opened her home for the underground railroad

Poet and Writer awarded Pulitzer Prize for her semi-autobiographical volume of poetry,

Failed attempt at a revolution at Harper's Ferry and many of his followers were hanged

Nationalist and Civil Rights Leader 

he received a patent for an“evaporation process” for refining sugar.

Military Hero 1st African American awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor

She was the first Black woman to head a bank--

Writer and Civil Rights Activist One of the nation’s most prolific writers of fiction.

Athlete and business woman @ 14 she won her first national junior pentathlon championship.

Baseball Player and Civil Rights Leader Broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947.