List of black historical heroes
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This is a list of famous historical black figures
- Martin Luther King Jr, ("MLK" Nobel Peace Prize)
- George Washington Carver, (National Inventors Hall of Fame )
- Marcus Garvey, (UNIA-ACL founder)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, (arguably most famous 19th century black poet)
- Ralph Bunche, (first African Nobel peace prize,Medal of freedom)
- Menelik II, (led first African military victory over European invasion)
- Percy Lavon Julian, (chemist, first black in National Academy of Sciences)
- Tiger woods, (arguably greatest golf players of all-time)
- Michael Jordan , (arguably best basketball player of all-time)
- Abebe Bikila , (first black Olympic champion representing African nation)
- Granville Woods, ("Black Edison" National Inventors Hall of Fame)
- Harriet Tubman , (the person behind the "Underground Railroad")
- Carter G. Woodson, (historian, founder of "Black History month)
- Phillis Wheatley , (first black writer to be published in America)
- George Carruthers, (Scientist, first black NASA medal)
- Mark Dean , (scientist,computer processor, one of original IBM inventors)
- James Edward Maceo West, (invented the foil-electret microphone)
- Philip Emeagwali, (one of the fathers of the internet)
- Joe Louis, (World boxing icon, Congressional Gold Medal)
- Ras Makonnen, (highest General at 1st African victory against European invasion)
- Kwame Nhrumah, ( founder of the African Union (AU))
- Jesse Owens, (one of greatest runners,Presidential Medal of Freedom)
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, (considered greatest female athlete of the 20th century (SI))
- W.E.B. Du Bois, (historian, sociologist, poet, founded the NAACP)
- Jomo Kenyatta , (founder of Kenyan Nation, considered one of greatest East African leaders)
- Malcolm x, (world-renowned Pan-Africanist, founder of OAAU)
- Nelson Mandela, (world icon, leader activist against modern apartheid, a founder of ANC)
- Wallace Fard Muhammad, (founder of the Nation of Islam (NOI))
- Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., (Muhammad Ali, "Sportsman of the century"(SI))
- Hank Aaron, (arguably the greatest black baseball player of all-time)
