| A | B |
| Harriett Tubman | conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Frederick Douglas | anti-slavery speaker |
| Marcus Garvey | leader of Back- to- Africa movement |
| Thurgood Marshal | first Black Supreme Court Justice |
| Shirley Chisholm | first Black to run for U.S. President |
| Rosa Parks | "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| Malcolm X | assassinated Muslim spokesman |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | assassinated nonviolent civil rights leader |
| Nelson Mandela | President of South Africa |
| Kweisi Mfume | current head of NAACP |
| Minister Louis Farrakhan | led Million Man March |
| Jesse Jackson | first Black man to run for U.S. President |