Bryan Stevenson: Justice System Reformer

Ordinary people can do extradorinary things


Melanie Campbell: Making Sure Black Women Aren’t Invisible

Emmanuel Acho: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett: Developer of the prototype for the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine

Amanda Gorman: Youth Poet Laureate and Activist

Marva Collins: Revolutionary Teacher of the “Unteachable”

Steve Henson: Creator of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing

Joyce Ardell Jackson and Brad Lomax: Disability Rights Activists

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson: NASA’s Hidden Figures

Edward W. Brooke, III: First Black U.S. Senator

Lucille and Ruby Bridges: First Black Child to Integrate a White Elementary School

The Deacons for Defense and Justice: Armed Protectors of Civil Rights

Georgia Gilmore: Food Activist Who Fed the Montgomery Boycotters

Fannie Lou Hamer: The woman who was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Bayard Rustin: Master Organizer for Civil Rights, Gay Rights and Human Rights

Charles Hamilton Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow

Dorothy Dandridge: First Black Woman Nominated for Best Actress Academy Award

John Oliver Killens:Founding Member of the Harlem Writer’s Guild


Dr. Charles Drew: Creator of the Life Saving Blood Bank

Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam CJ Walker: Self-Made Millionaires

Paul R. Williams: Architect to the Stars

Mary McLeod Bethune: Teacher, College Founder, FDR Advisor, UN Representative and Unstoppable Force

Granville Woods: The “Black Thomas Edison”

Rebecca Lee Crumpler: America’s First Female African American Doctor

Mary Walker: A formerly enslaved woman who learned to read at 116

Mary Lumpkin: Founder of the country’s first HBCU

Lemuel Haynes: First Black Ordained Minister

Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History Month