Honor the past. Carry the story forward.
Meet 28 people whose courage, creativity and leadership helped shape history.
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Harriet Tubman
Freedom and service
Frederick Douglass
Writing for freedom
Sojourner Truth
A voice for equality
Ida B. Wells
Journalism and justice
Mary Mcleod Bethune
Education opens doors
Rosa Parks
A lifetime of organizing
Ella Baker
Leadership from the community
Fannie Lou Hamer
A voice for voting rights
Shirley Chisholm
Opening political doors
Barbara Jordan
Public service and the Constitution
Katherine Johnson
Mathematics for spaceflight
Dorothy Vaughan
Learning and leading
Mary Jackson
Engineering opportunity
Bessie Coleman
Reaching for the sky
Madam C. J. Walker
Business and community
W. E. B. Du Bois
Research and civil rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolent action for justice
Malcolm X
Dignity and human rights
John Lewis
Courage and civic action
Bayard Rustin
The work behind a movement
Thurgood Marshall
Justice through the law
Robert Smalls
From escape to public service
George Washington Carver
Science that serves farmers
Charles Drew
Advancing blood banking
Garrett Morgan
Inventing for safety
Lewis Latimer
Making electric light practical
Carter G. Woodson
Preserving Black history
Benjamin Banneker
Studying the sky