Black History Month

Biographies

• Muhammad Ali
• Maya Angelou
• Josephine Baker
• James Baldwin
• Tyra Banks
• Amiri Baraka
• Daisy Bates
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• Ralph Bunche
• George Washington Carver
• Ray Charles
• Shirley Chisholm
• Johnnie Cochran
• Nat King Cole
• Bessie Coleman
• Gary Davis
• Frederick Douglass
• Charles Drew
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Duke Ellington
• Medgar Evers
• Jamie Foxx
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Marvin Gaye
• Alex Haley
• William R. Harvey
• Eric H. Holder, Jr.
• Billie Holiday
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston
• LeBron James
• Mae C. Jemison
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Queen Latifah
• Jacob Lawrence

• Spike Lee
• Kevin Liles
• Alain Locke
• Thurgood Marshall
• Walter Mosley
• Elijah Muhammad
• Barack Obama
• Gordon Parks
• Rosa Parks
• David A. Paterson
• Richard Pryor
• Condoleezza Rice
• Smokey Robinson
• Wilma Rudolph
• Dred Scott
• Robert George Seale
• Betty Shabazz
• Tavis Smiley
• Clarence Thomas
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Ross Tubman
• C. Delores Tucker
• Usher
• Denmark Vesey
• Alice Walker
• Booker T. Washington
• Denzel Washington
• Ida B. Wells
• Kanye West
• Reggie White
• Myrlie Evers-Williams
• Serena Williams
• Oprah Winfrey
• Carter G. Woodson
• Malcolm X