Lucy Terry Prince
Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
Crispus Attucks
Benjamin Banneker
Phillis Wheatley
Peter Salem
James Armistead
Elizabeth Freeman
Richard Allen
Gabriel Prossner
York
Denmark Vesey
Black Seminoles
Nat Turner
Joseph Cinque (Sengbe Pieh)
James Pierson Beckwourth
Norbert Rillieux
The Underground Railroad
Lewis Temple
Dred Scott
Lewis Hayden
Harriet Ross Tubman
Jermain Wesley Loguen
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Robert Smalls
The Emancipation Proclamation
African-American Civil War soldiers
Reconstruction
P.B.S. Pinchback
Booker T. Washington
Nat Love.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Isaac Myers
George Jordan
Scott Joplin
George Washington Williams
George Washington Carver
Granville T. Woods
Daniel Hale Williams
Madam C.J. Walker
Charles Young
Elijah McCoy
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Ida. B. Wells-Barnett
Mary Church Terrell
Matthew Alexander Henson
Mary McLeod Bethune
W.E.B Du Bois
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Garrett Augustus Morgan
William Christopher Handy
Henry Johnson
Bessie Smith
The great northern migration
James Weldon Johnson
Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman
Marcus Garvey
Harlem renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neale Hurston.

Langston Hughes
Alain Leroy Locke
Carter G. Woodson
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Charles Hamilton Houston
Jesse Owens
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Richard Wright
Julian Francis Abele
Paul Rever Williams
Paul Robeson
Joe Louis
Marian Anderson
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Asa Philip Randolph
Charles Richard Drew
Jackie Robinson
Gordon Parks
Percy Lavon Julian
Ralph Bunche
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Lorraine Hansberry
James Baldwin
Wilma Rudolph
Rosa Parks
Alex Palmer Haley
Ella Josephine Baker
Thurgood Marshall
The Little Rock nine
Medgar Evans
Sit-ins.

Freedom Riders
Fannie Lou Hamer
Malcolm X
The 1963 march on Washington
Roy Wilkins
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Mitchell
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The black power movement
Marian Wright Edelman
Maya Angelou
Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr.
Mae C. Jemison
Muhammad Ali
Toni Morrison
Jesse Jackson
John Robert Lewis
Bill Cosby
Colin Luther Powell
Alice Walker
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
Oprah Winfrey
Michael Jeffrey Jordan
Benjamin S. Carson
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee
Tiger Woods.