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Frederick Douglass
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African Americans
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- Muhammad Ali - Championship boxer and civil rights activist
- Maya Angelou - Author and poet
- Louis Armstrong - One of the most influential figures in the history of jazz music
- Josephine Baker - Dancer and singer who fought for racial integration
Harriet Tubman
- Benjamin Banneker - Scientist and astronomer from the 1700s who wrote a popular almanac
- Ruby Bridges - The first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South
- George Washington Carver - Scientist who helped farmers in the south and discovered many ways to use the peanut
- Frederick Douglass - Former slave who became an advisor to presidents
- Charles Drew - Doctor and scientist who helped create blood banks for World War II
- Michael Jackson - One of the most popular singers and performers of all time
Ruby Bridges
- Michael Jordan - Considered the greatest basketball player in history
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil rights leader who brought about change through non-violent protest
- Thurgood Marshall - The first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Barack Obama - First African-American president of the United States
- Jesse Owens - Track and field Olympic gold medalist
- Rosa Parks - Rosa was a civil rights activist famous for not giving up her seat on the bus
- Colin Powell - General who became the first African-American Secretary of State
Rosa Parks
- Jackie Robinson - First African-American to play in Major League Baseball
- Augusta Savage - Artist during the Harlem Renaissance
- Robert Smalls - Civil War hero who later became a Congressman
- Sojourner Truth - An escaped slave who fought for the end of the slavery and women's rights
- Harriet Tubman - An escaped slave who became a leader in the Underground Railroad helping more slaves to escape from the South
- Madam C.J. Walker - Known as the first woman self-made millionaire
- Booker T. Washington - Civil rights leader who opened the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
- Ida B. Wells - A journalist and civil rights activist, Ida B. Wells led a campaign against lynching
Ida B. Wells
- Oprah Winfrey - Became one of the most successful businesswomen in the world through her TV show The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Malcolm X - Famous leader and member of the Nation of Islam
More articles about African-Americans in history:
African Americans During the American Revolution
African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans in World War 2
Timeline of African American Civil Rights
Black History Month
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