Phillis Wheatley
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott
Emancipation Proclamation
Freedman’s Bureau
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Black Codes (1865-1866)
Reconstruction acts (1867)
Hiram Revels
Spelman College
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
George Washington Carver
Plessy v. Ferguson
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
W.E.B. Du Bois
James Weldon Johnson
Ella Baker
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Kwesi Mfume
Marcus Garvey
Harlem Renaissance
Jackie Robinson
Malcom X
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Rosa Parks
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
“Little Rock Nine”
“Greensboro Four”
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
“Freedom Riders”
Civil Rights Movement
James Meredith
Malcolm X
The Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael
Thurgood Marshall
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Affirmative Action
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Barack Obama
Barbara Jordan
Mary McLeod Bethune
Ralph Bunche
Marian Wright Edelman
Reverend Jesse Jackson
Maya Angelou
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Frederick Douglass
Alain Locke
Edward Brooke
Mathew Henson
Jack Johnson (1908)
Carl Stokes (1967)
Tom Bradley
David Dinkins
James Earl Jones
Shirley Chisholm
Crispus Attucks
Willie Mays
Carol Mosely-Braun
Rita Dove
Josephine Baker
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Leontyne Price
Marian Anderson
Angela Davis
Sojourner Truth
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Farrakhan
Colin Powell
Elijah Mc Coy
Lewis Latimer
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Granville T. Woods
Madame C.J. Walker
Garrett Morgan
Otis Boykin
Dr. Patricia E. Bath
Lonnie G. Johnson
Benjamin Banneker
Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Carl Lewis
Althea Gibson
Arthur Ashe
Muhammad Ali
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Ernie Davis
Wilma Rudolph
Gail Devers
Florence Griffith Joyner
Jackie Robinson
Marian Anderson
Harlem Globetrotters
Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige
Michael Jordan
Hattie Mc Daniel
Sidney Poitier
Ethel Water
Alice Walker
Langston Hughes
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Motown Sound (Temptations, Supremes, Four
Tops)
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Nat King Cole
Bill Cosby
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
Luis “Satchmo” Armstrong
Charlie “Bird” Parker
Alvin Ailey
Underground Railroad
“Buffalo Soldiers” (1871)
Tuskegee Airmen
Amistad
“The Great Migration” (1927)
Jesse Owens
Bessie Coleman
Mae Jamison
Ruby Bridges
Guy Bluford, Jr.
Prince Hall
Michelle Obama
Dr. Vivien Thomas
John Hanson
Michelle Obama
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
Condoleeza Rice
Rev. Al Sharpton
Oprah Winfrey
Danny Sloan
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Jim Beckwourth (1798-1867)
Nat Turner
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