Marjorie Joyner First African American Female Patent Holder
Alex Haley Novelist
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback Union Officer
Sarah Vaughan Singer
William Eldon "Willie" O'Ree First Black to play in the NHL
Paul Robeson Entertainer, Activist
Lucy Terry Poet, storyteller, and colonial activist
Charlie Parker Jazz Pioneer
Amiri Baraka American poet, playwright, and political activist
Matthew Alexander Henson Explorer
Whitney Moore Young Civil rights leader
Absalom Jones One of the first two black Americans to receive formal ordination in any den
Norbert Rillieux was born on March 17, 1806 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Norbert was born a
U.S.S. Mason The only WWII U.S. Navy warship manned by a predominantly African-American cr
W.E.B. DuBoise Writer and social scientist
