Mohammed Ali
Heavy Weight Boxing Champ 

Louis Armstrong
Jazz, Artist-Trumpet

Josephine Baker
Actress

George Washington Carver
Agriculturist, Scientist

William "Bill" Cosby
Actor, Comedian

Dorothy Dandridge
Actress / Singer

Sammy Davis, Jr.
Singer, Dancer
Comedian, Actor

Larry Doby
Star for Cleveland Indians
First African American player
in American League

W.E.B. DuBois
Author

Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz Singer

Aretha Franklin
Singer

Marcus Garvey
Activist

Alex Haley
Novelist, Journalist

Virginia Hamilton
(Author)

Billie Holiday
Jazz Singer

Langston Hughes
poet, song writer, novelist

Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Folklorist

Shirley Ann Jackson
Physicist

Mae Jemison
Astronaut

Marion Jones
Female Track Olypian

Jesse Jackson
Religious Leader, Civil Rights / Human Rights Activist

Lakewood City Schools || Elementary Pathfinders

Prominent African Americans Past and Present

Maya Angelou Writer, Poet, Actress

Bessie Coleman Aviator

Jackie Robinson Baseball Hall of Fame Honoree, Civil Rights Activist

Quincy Jones
Music Impresario

Barbara Jordan
Served in the
U.S. Congress (TX),
Professor

Michael Jordan
Basketball Player

Florence Griffith Joyner
Female Track Olympian

B.B. King
Musician

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist

Spike Lee
Film Director,
Producer, Actor

Malcolm X
Civil Rights Leader

Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court Justice

Toni Morrison
Novelist, Editor, Teacher

Jesse Owens
Olympian
Track and Field

Sidney Poitier
Actor

Colin Powell
Secretary of State

Rosa Parks
Civil Rights Activist

Condoleeza Rice
National Security Advisor

Wilma Rudolph
Olympian-Track and Field

Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist

Harriet Tubman
Conductor on the
Underground Railroad

Alice Walker
Poet, Novelist, Activist

Madame C.J. Walker
Entrepeneur, Cosmetics Manufacturer

Booker T. Washington
Educator, activist

Phyllis Wheatley
Poet

Oprah Winfrey
Talk Show Host / Philanthropist