List of black historical heroes

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)"

ee also

100 Great Black Britons