Nelson Mandela - The first black president of South Africa. , Joycelyn Elders - The first black US Surgeon General. , Wilma Rudolph - The first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Game. , Garrett Morgan - Invented three-way traffic signals. , Hattie McDaniel - The first black woman to win an Oscar for a supporting role in a movie. , Harriet Tubman - Helped more than 300 people escape slavery. , Mary Jackson - NASA's first black female engineer , Mae C Jemison - The first African-American woman to travel into space. , Amanda Gorman - The youngest person to recite a poem at the US Presidential Inauguration. , Rosa Parks - Her refusal to give up her seat on a bus started a bus boycott and led to segregation reform on public transit systems. , Willie O Ree - The first black player in the NHL while partially blind in one eye. , Carter G Woodson - Known as the "Father of Black History" because he wanted to make sure that the stories of African Americans were written and published. , Althea Gibson - The first black tennis player to win the French Championship, the US Open, and Wimbledon. , Diahann Carroll - The first black woman in America to star in her own tv series. , Katherine Johnson - Worked on space flight plans for Alan Shepard and John Glenn's missions in the 1960s. , Elijah McCoy - He was a mechanical engineer with many patents - improvements to ironing boards, lawn sprinklers, and train travel, to name a few! , Sidney Poitier - The first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor., Alice Walker - The first Black American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize; won for her novel, The Color Purple. ,

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