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| She was the first African American aviator | Bessie Coleman |
| This famous African American playwright is best known for her play "A Raisin in the Sun" | Lorraine Hansberry |
| This educator believed in the importance of African-Americans learning trades, he was a leader in founding the Tuskegee Institute, and was the first African-American to dine in the White House | Booker T. Washington |
| She was the first African-American to play in the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament and at Wimbledon | Althea Gibson |
| He believed in self determination and led the back to Africa movement. Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association | Marcus Garvey |
| She is the author of Mules and Men and chronciled the African-American experience in her literature | Zora Neale Hurston |
| She was a famous singer who after being banned from singing at an indoor event in Washington gave a performance at the Linocln Memorial in 1939 that raised awareness. | Marian Anderson |
| She became the richest women in African by founding a line of cosmetics products | Madame C.J. Walker |
| One of the most promenient voices of the Harlem Renaissance. He was a poet and a novelist. He wrote Home to Harlem and lived for some years in Jamaica | Claude McKay |
| She was an anti-lynching activist and taught at Wilberforce University | Mary Church Terrell |
| He pioneered the study of plants | George Washington Carver |
| She become a celebrity performin in France and was active in the resistance in World War II receiving the Legion of Honor | Josephine Baker |
| She was one of the great innovators in dance | Katherine Dunham |
| She become a symbol of the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat. | Rosa Parks |
| She was a pioneer in the civil rights movement. She became a journalist and was active against anti-lynching laws | Ida Wells-Barnett |
| She founded the National Council of Negro Women and has an HBCU partially named after her. | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| She was a leader in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 helping to get African-American delegates seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention. | Fannie Lou Hamer |
| One of hist best known workds is the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | James Weldon Johnson |
| This writer is famous for Uncle Tom's Children, Black Boy, and Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Composer, pianist, and band leader he contributed much to the jazz age. | Duke Ellington |
