African American Links
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individuals
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Muhammad Ali - Heavy Weight Boxing Champ
- Maya Angelou - Writer, Poet, Actor
- Louis Armstrong - Jazz Artist
- George Washington Carver - Agriculturalist, Scientist
- Bessie Coleman - Aviator
- Larry Doby - Hall of Famer, First African American player in American League
- Fredrick Douglass papers
- Duke Ellington - Band leader, Composer, Musician
- Ralph Ellison - Novelist, Essayist
- Virginia Hamilton - Author (Children/Young Adult)
- Lionel Hampton - musician
- Zora Neale Hurston - Novelist, Folklorist
- Jesse Jackson - Civil Rights Activist
- Shirley Ann Jackson - Physicist
- Mae Jemison - Astronaut
- Barbara Jordan - Served in the U.S. Congress (TX), Professor
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights Activist
- Spike Lee - Film Director, Producer, Actor
- Audre Lorde - Poet, Essayist, Activist
- Malcolm X - Civil Rights Leader
- Thurgood Marshall - first African American Supreme Court Justice
- Garrett A. Morgan - inventor
- Toni Morrison - Novelist, Editor, Teacher
- Jesse Owens - Olympian-Track and Field
- Colin Powell - Retired Army General, current Secretary of State
- Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist
- Jackie Robinson - Baseball Hall of Fame Honoree, Civil Rights Activist
- Wilma Rudolph - Olympian-Track and Field
- Clarence Thomas - Supreme Court Justice
- Harriet Tubman - and Other Important 19th Century African Americans
- Alice Walker - Poet, Novelist, Activist
General Topic Links
Created at Madison Branch 19980108. Last updated 20030624.