Thurgood Marshall First black on the Supreme Court
13th Amendment Congress passed 13th Amendment
Frank Robinson Frank Robinson became the first black major league baseball manager
Leontyne Price World renowned soprano, born 1927
In 1861, Victoria Matthews was born. She was an African-American educator, writer, and rac
Homer A Plessy Refused to move to segregated railroad coach
Mary Church Terrell Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
Julian Bond U.S. legislator and black civil-rights leader
Roy Wilkins Roy Wilkins, 2nd Executive Director
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Poet
Edith Sampson Edith Sampson, first black female US delegate to the United Nations
From 1932 to 1972, 399 poor black sharecroppers in Macon County, Alabama were denied treat
Despite being born a slave on May 16, 1855, Major Richard Robert Wright, Sr. was a post-re
Granville T. Woods The Black Edison
NC Mutual Life Insurance Company NC Mutual Life Insurance Company
