Singer, actor, and Civil Rights activist First African American professional baseball player

Abolitionist and Women’s Rights activist

Conductor on the Underground Railroad

and first African American woman featured

on a US postage stamp

Civil Rights activist “Senior Statesman” of the Civil Rights movement

Journalist, editor, suffragist,

and early Civil Rights activist “Father of Black History”

First African American writer receive major acclaim

with his publication in Atlantic Monthly Poet, novelist, playwright, social activist,

and leader of the Harlem Renaissance

First female self-made millionaire in the US Minister and Human Rights activist

First African American singer with New York’s

Metropolitan Opera Company,

and United Nations delegate First African American Justice on the

US Supreme Court

First African American accredited architect, first

African American student at Massachusetts Institute

of Technology (MIT) and designer of much of

Tuskegee University.

Author, songwriter, Civil Rights activist

First African American on Forbes 400 Chemist and pioneer in synthesizing

medicinal drugs from plants