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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nationalist and Civil Rights Leader 

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

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

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

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