Throughout our history, many African-Americans have done things so courageous and innovative...

And this is only 74 of them.

With that in mind, we ask that you sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Some of them were women...

Phyllis Wheatley

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

Ida Wells Barnett

Madame CJ Walker

Mary McLeod Bethune

Shirley Chisholm

Barbara Jordan

Mae Jemison

Some were colonial pioneers

Crispus Attuks

Fredrick Douglass

Dred Scott

Henry Bibb

Toussaint L'Overture

For some, the Civil Rights Movement was their grand

stage

The Little Rock Nine

Elijah Muhammad

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Malcolm X

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Roy Wilkins

Many had the power to write powerfully

Maya Angelou

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. DuBois

Alex Haley

Langston Hughes

Nikki Giovanni

Dick Gregory

They were Innovators

Benjamin Banneker

George Washington Carver

David Hale

Garrett Morgan

They were leaders of the Motherland, and made

historical firsts

Kwame Nkrumah

Nnamdi Azikwe

Jesse Jackson

Nelson Mandela

President Barack H. Obama

Thurgood Marshall

Benjamin Davis, Sr.

Matthew Henson

Guion Bluford

They Changed the Face of Entertainment

Hattie McDaniel

Sidney Poitier

Denzel Washington

Vanessa Williams

Oprah Winfrey

Nat King Cole

Berry Gordy

Spike Lee

Redd Foxx

Whitney Houston

Muddy Waters

Michael Jackson

Ray Charles

Lavar Burton

Whoopi Goldberg

Some took their talents to the courts and fields

Muhammad Ali

Leroy Satchel Page

Jim Brown

Wilma Rudolph

Michael Jordan

Arthur Ashe

There you have it, a SAMPLING of just a few of the people that have made an impact on not only black societies, but all

societies today. Thank you so much for viewing this piece, and please enjoy the other

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