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African American History: Important People

A Gumberg Library research guide

Sojourner Truth (1797-1893)

Booker T. Washinton (1856-1915)

Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919)

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)

A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)

Nat Turner (1800-1831)

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

Medgar Evers (1925-1963)

Jesse Jackson (1941-)