Famous Black Americans

African-Americans have made many significant contributions to our nation's history-both past and present. Find out more by reading about some of these famous Americans. Click on their names below to learn more.

Rosa Parks	Hank Aaron.	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oprah Winfrey	Jesse Owens	Condaleeza Rice
Bill Cosby	Wilma Rudolph	Marian Anderson
Shirley Chisholm	Benjamin Banneker	Tiger Woods
Patricia Harris	Ida B. Wells	Mae C. Jemison
Thurgood Marshall	Sidney Poitier	Tim Duncan
Frederick Douglass	Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable	Sammy Sosa
Harriet Tubman	Colin Powell	Guion S. Bluford, Jr.
Paul Laurence Dunbar	Michael Jordan	Jackie Robinson
Jan E. Matzeliger	Sojourner Truth	George Washington Carver

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