Black History Civil Rights Leaders
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- Boys
- Asa Philip Randolph
- Benjamin Banneker
- Carter Woodson
- Charles Drew
- Duke Ellington
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Ernest Just
- Erroll Garner
- Eubie Blake
- Frederick Douglass
- George Washington Carver
- Jesse Owens
- Jim Beckwourth
- Langston Hughes
- Louis Armstrong
- Louis Farrakhan
- Malcolm X
- Marcus Garvey
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Matthew Henson
- Nat King Cole
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Percy Lavon Julian
- Ralph Bunche
- Salem Poor
- Scott Joplin
- Thelonious Monk
- Whitney Moore Young
- William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois
- Girls
- Bessie Coleman
- Biddy Mason
- Billie Holiday
- Cathay Williams
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Diana Fletcher
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Edmonia Lewis
- Eliza Bryant
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Harriet Tubman
- Ida Wells Barnett
- Josephine Baker
- Mahalia Jackson
- Marian Anderson
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Maya Angelou
- Rita Dove
- Rosa Parks
- Sally Hemings
- Sojourner Truth
- Susan McKinney
- Zelma Watson George