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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was the one who signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves from bondage. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was an anti-slave novel. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born on the 17th of February in 1818. He died on February 20th, 1895. -
Harriet Tubmam
Harriet Tubman's actual birth month and day are unknown. She is famous for establishing the Underground Railroad, which helped the slaves escape to freedom. She was also a slave until she herself escaped as well. -
Booker T Washington
Booker T Washington was an African American author, orator and advisary to Republican presidents. He's also the founder of Tuskegee Institute. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a series of tunnels that were underground to help bonded slaves escape to freedom. -
George Washington Carver
The actual date of his birth is unknown. George Washington Carver was born into slavery. After slavery was abolished he was raised by his owners. There, he became interested in science and became an inventor. -
Carter G Woodson
Carter G Woodson was the first scholar to study African American history. He was an author, journalist, and an American historian. He founded the The Association of African American life and Histroy. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was known for his better work during the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue." -
Rosa Parks
"The mother of the freedom movement." Rosa Parks was a civil rights activists who had refused to give up her seat in the negro section. -
Malcolm X
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcom X was, to his admirers, a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks. He was a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and the leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. He recieved a Nobel Piece Prize for his nonviolence racial inequality
