100 African Americans who changed American history

Crispus Attucks 1723-1770

Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806

Elizabeth Freeman 1742-1829

Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784

Paul Cuffe 1759-1817

Richard Allen 1760-1831

James Forten 1766-1842

Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm 1795-1858 and 1799-1851

Dred Scott 1795-1858

Sojourner Truth 1797-1883

Nat Turner 1800-1831

Martin R. Delany 1812-1885

Henry H. Garnet 1815-1882

Frederick Douglass 1817-1895

Harriet Tubman 1820-1913

Henry McNeal Turner 1834-1915

P. B. S. Pinchback 1837-1921

Robert Smalls 1839-1915

Elijah McCoy 1843-1929

Lewis Howard Latimer 1848-1928

George Washington Williams 1849-1891

Nat Love 1854-1921

T. Thomas Fortune 1856-1928

Booker T. Washington 1856-1915

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 1856-1931

Granville T. Woods 1856-1910

Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1856-1910

Mary Church Terrell 1863-1954

George Washington Carver 1864-1943

Matthew Henson 1866-1955

Madame C.J. Walker 1867-1919

W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1963

John Hope 1868-1936

Scott Joplin 1868-1917

Robert Abbott 1870-1940

James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906

William M. Trotter 1872-1934

William Christopher Handy 1873-1958

Arthur Schomburg 1874-1938

Mary McLeod Bethune 1975-1955

Garrett A. Morgan 1875-1963

Carter G. Woodson 1875-1950

Jack Johnson 1878-1946

Oscar Micheaux 1884-1940

Marcus Garvey 1887-1940

Claude McKay 1889-1948

A. Philip Randolph 1889-1979

Mordecai W. Johnson 1890-1976

Bessie Coleman 1892-1926

Frederick McKinley Jones 1893-1961

Walter F. White 1893-1955

E. Franklin Frazier 1894-1962

Bessie Smith 1894-1937

Charles H. Houston 1895-1950

Banjamin E. Mays 1895-1984

Paul Robeson 1898-1976

Duke Ellington 1899-1974

Percy Lavon Julian 1899-1974

Louis Armstrong 1900-1971

Zora Neale Hurston 1901-1960

Roy Wilkins 1901-1981

Marian Anderson 1902-1993

Langston Hughes 1902-1967

Ralph Bunche 1904-1971

Dr. Charles R. Drew 1904-1950

Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1908-1972

Richard Wright 1908-1960

Katherine Dunham b. 1909

Bayard Rustin 1910-1987

Rosa Parks b. 1913

Jesse Owens 1913-1980

Kenneth B. Clark b. 1914

Billie Holiday 1915-1959

Gwendolyn Brooks b. 1917

Ossie Davis b. 1917

Ruby Dee b. 1924

Fannie Lou Hamer 1970-1977

John H. Johnson b. 1918

Jackie Robinson 1919-1972

Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. 1920-1978

Alex Haley 1921-1992

Whitney M. Young, Jr. 1921-1971

Leon Sullivan b. 1922

James Baldwin 1924-1987

Shirley Chisholm b. 1924

Malcolm X 1925-1965

Harry Belafonte b. 1927

Maya Angelou b. 1928

Lerone Bennett, Jr. b. 1928

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965

Toni Morrison b 1931

Bill Cosby b. 1937

Colin Powell b. 1937

Marian Wright Edelman b. 1939

Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994

Bill Gray b. 1941

Jesse Jackson b. 1941

Muhammad Ali b. 1942.