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Stacey Abrams: politician, voters' rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Marian Anderson: singer who struggled against prejudice to become one of the great opera performers of the century
Patricia Bath: ophthalmologist who invented a specialized laser for removing cataracts and became the first African American woman doctor to receive a medical patent
Ruby Bridges: the first African American to attend an all-white school in New Orleans
Kobe Bryant: 18-time NBA All-Star, a five-time NBA champion, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist
Claudette Colvin: the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott
Georgia Gilmore: the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956
Langston Hughes: contains a collection of 26 of the poet's most important pieces
Mae Jemison: the first African American woman to travel into space
Loretta Little: describes her family's struggles and triumphs while living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
Michelle Obama: lawyer and First Lady, married to Barack Obama
Bass Reeves: a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States marshal, based on his ability to communicate with Native Americans
Sharon Robinson: daughter of Jackie Robinson, she shares her experience growing up during 1963, an important year of the civil rights movement.
William Still: African-American abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad
Madam C.J. Walker: created a line of hair care products for African American women and became one of the first self-made female millionaires in the US
Brave. Black. First: biographies of over 50 African American women
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Muhammad Ali: world champion boxer
Maya Angelou: poet and activist
Elgin Baylor: one of the first professional African American basketball players who fought against prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks: poet and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize
George Washington Carver: scientist and inventor
Frederick Douglass: born into slavery and became a world-renowned orator, journalist, author, and advisor to U.S. presidents
Victor Hugo Green: created The Green Book, a guide for African Americans to stay safe while traveling around the U.S. during the era of segregation
Zora Neale Hurston: a world-renowned writer and anthropologist
Coretta Scott King: author, activist, civil rights leader, and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurgood Marshall: Supreme Court Justice and civil rights leader
Jesse Owens: one of America's greatest track and field athletes and four gold medals at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games
Jason Reynolds: author who writes young adult novels and poetry; winner of the Caldecott and Newbery medals
Dovey Johnson Roundtree: Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a powerful moment from her childhood with her wise grandmother
Sojourner Truth: abolitionist and activist for African American civil rights
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins: a musical prodigy, he was the first African American artist to perform at the White House
Changing the equation: explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America
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Jo Ann Allen: part of the "Clinton 12" who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School
Josephine Baker: legendary performer and civil rights advocate
Simone Biles: Olympic athlete who is the most decorated gymnast in history
Harry T. Burleigh: born in Erie, he became the first African American composer to create a significant body of art songs and adaptations of African American spirituals
Shirley Chisholm: became the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Congress
Aretha Franklin: singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, activist- "The Queen of Soul"
Junius Groves: a sharecropper in Kansas who grew a modest potato farm into a potato kingdom
Ketanji Brown Jackson: the first African American woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
Martin Luther King Jr.: civil rights activist and youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Barack Obama: the first African American President in US history
Rosa Parks: her actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.
Jackie Robinson: the first African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team
NIna Simone: singer whose music gave voice to the struggle for racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement
Harriet Tubman: abolitionist leader who played a key role in helping enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad
Carter G. Woodson: known as the “Father of Black History"
Bold women in Black history: showcases women in black history, including abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.
