He was the first African-American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 65th U.S. Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Commander of the U.S. Army Forces and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, he succeeded Thurgood Marshall and is the second African-American to serve on the court.
He is regarded as one of the leading heavyweight boxers of the 20th century, and remains the only three-time lineal heavyweight champion. He fought for civil and human rights and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement and became the first African-American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
The first black woman elected to the United States Congress, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He is the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), owned the Charlotte Bobcats and became the first black American billionaire.
American stand-up comedian, actor, and social critic, he was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets.
She is best known as the creator, head writer, executive producer - the showrunner of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal and in 2007 was named one of TIME magazine's 100 People Who Help Shape the World.
She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
American retired professional basketball player and former president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a leader in fighting HIV and a successful businessman bringing many businesses to poorer neighborhoods.
American botanist and inventor. He became well-known to the public due to his active promotion of alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life.
She was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
She won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton.
MLB player who became one of the pivotal figures in the sport's labor history when he refused to accept a trade following the 1969 season, ultimately appealing his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although his legal challenge was unsuccessful, it brought additional solidarity among players as they fought against baseball's reserve clause and sought free agency.
She was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African-American Secretary of State, and the second female Secretary of State.
He was dubbed the 'King of Ragtime', he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first, and most popular pieces, the 'Maple Leaf Rag', became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
The named plaintiff in a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
He became the first African-American popularly elected to the United States Senate representing Massachusetts in the Senate from 1967 to 1979.
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