W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcom X, Alex Haley, John Hope Franklin, Resmaa Menakem, Richard Drake, Sven Beckert, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Edward E. Baptist, Carter G. Woodson, Desmond A. Reid, Trevor Noah, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary E. Church Terrell, Thurgood Marshall, Sojourner Truth, Ben Carson, Desmon Meade, Maxwell Frost, Harry T. & Harriet Moore, Doris “Dorie” Miller, Crystal R. Sanders, Mary McLeod Bethune, John Brown, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, James Baldwin, Jackie Robinson, Zora Neale Hurston, Colin Powell, Marcus Garvey, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Guion Bluford, Paul Robeson, James Weldon Johnson, Dorothy Height, Henry Highland Garnet, William Monroe Trotter, Roy Wilkins, Matthew Henson, Muhammad Ali, Alain LeRoy Locks, Walter White, Edward W. Brooks, Nat Turner, Amada Gorman, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Nelson Mandela, Ralph Abernathy, Maya Angelou, James Bevel, Ralph Bunche, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jimmy Carter, John Lewis, James Meredith, Bayard Rustin, Andrew Jackson, Ella Baker, Naomi Anderson, Daisy Bates, Unita Blackwell, Julian Bond, Lillie Mae Bradford, Ruby Bridges, Aurelia Browder, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Shack Roberts, McCants Stewart, Harriet Redmond, Gladys McCoy, Mary Jane Spurlin, Carrie Halsell Ward, George riley, DeNorval Unthank, Anna Pauline Murray, Eunice Carter, Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, Huey P. Newton, Jeanette Carter, Julius L. Chambers, Fannie Lee Chaney, James Chaney, Septima Poinsette, Clark, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, Charles E. Cobb Jr., John Conyers, Marvel Cooke, Thomas Jennings, Jo Anderson, Benjamin Montgomery, Lewis Latimer, Sarah Goode, Garrett Morgan, Alice Ball, Dr. Charles Drew, Frederick McKinley Jones, Mary Kenner, Otis Boykin, Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert Brown, Valarie Thomas, Patricia Bath, Philip Emeagwali, Dorothy Cotton, Claudette Colvin, Gloria Blackwell, Archibald Carey Jr., Coleman Young, Tom Bradley, Sidney Poitier, Arthur “Pappy” Kennedy, Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary W. Jackson, Christine Darden, Anie Easley, Miriam Mann, Sarah Boone, Alexander Miles, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Margaret Strickland Collins, Benjamin Banneker, Elizabeth Freeman, Mae Jemison, George Carruthers, Mark Dean, Madam C.J. Walker, William H. Carney, Charles Follis, Jane Bolin, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Ursula Burns, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Coachman, Gordon Parks, Mildred Jeter Loving, Charles Hamilton Houston, Bessie Colman, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Beverly Loraine Greene, Max Robinson, Henry Johnson, Georgia Ann Robinson, Mamie Johnson, Kivie Kaplan, Arnie Aronson, Henry Moscowitz, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Toussaint Louverture, Ivan Van Sertima, Rube Walker, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Joan Higginbotham, Percy Julian, John Henrik Clarke, Maggie Lena Walker, John Horse, Elijah McCoy, Elijah Muhammad, Frances Cress Welsing, Medgar Evers, Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Dick Gregory, Nina Simone, Martin Delany, Henry Ossian Flipper, Ketanji Brown Jackon, Kamala Harris, Bell Hooks, Barbara Smith, Claudia Jones, Queen Mother Moore, Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, Ben Crump, Lonnie Johnson, Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Colin Kaepernick, Polly Jackson, Ella Baker, James Harris, Cluade McKay, O.W. Gurley, Geradine Thompson, Rev. Hosea Williams, Oliver Brown, Linda Brown, 761st Tank Battalion, Tuskegee Airmen, Black Panthers Party, Black Wall Street, Rosewood Massacre,
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