African-American Biographies from Factmonster

Please choose one of the following notable African Americans to research on Factmonster for your class project.

Abolitionism * James Armistead, American patriot * Matthew Ashby, American colonist * Crispus Attucks, American patriot * Joseph Cinqué, slave leader * Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist * Martin Robinson Delany, American black leader * Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist * W. E. B. Dubois, American author and teacher * Henry Highland Garnet, American abolitionist clergyman * Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier * Homer Plessy, challenged segregation on trains * Gabriel Prosser, leader of unsuccessful slave revolt * Dred Scott, of the Supreme Court Dred Scott case * Pierre Toussaint, philanthropist * Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist * Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist * Nat Turner, American slave * Gustavus Vassa, abolitionist, writer * Denmark Vesey, American leader * Phillis Wheatley, American poet	Civil Rights Leaders * Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader * Ella Baker, civil rights activist * Amira Baraka, American poet, playwright, and political activist * Daisy Bates, civil rights leader * Black Panthers, U.S. black militant party * Julian Bond, U.S. civil rights leader * Stokely Carmichael, radical civil rights leader * Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman * Kenneth B. Clark, civil rights leader * Eldridge Cleaver, American social activist * Angela Davis, political activist, author * Medgar Evers, civil rights leader * Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader * James Farmer, civil rights leader * Marcus Garvey, black nationalist leader * Greensboro Four, civil rights activists * Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer, civil rights activist * Benjamin Hooks, American black leader * Charles Hamilton Houston, civil rights lawyer * Roy Innis, civil rights leader * Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist * James Weldon Johnson, civil rights leader * Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader * Martin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader * John R. Lewis, civil rights leader * Little Rock Nine, first black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School * Malcolm X, militant black leader * Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court * Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader * James Meredith, civil-rights leader, author * Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Representative and NAACP CEO * Benjamin Franklin Muhammad, civil-rights and religious leader * Elijah Muhammad, black nationalist leader * Huey Newton, black activist * Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist * A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader * Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist * Bobby Seale, black activist * Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights activist * Nina Simone, civil rights activist * C. K. (Charles Kenzie) Steele, civil rights activist * Moorfield Storey, civil rights leader * Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist * Walter White, American leader * Roy Wilkins, American social reformer and civil rights leader * Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official * Whitney M. Young, Jr., social reformer
Government Officials * Minorities and Women in the 109th Congress * James Armistead, American Revolution patriot * Tom Bradley, American politician * Carol Mosely Braun, U.S. senator * Edward Brooke, American politician * Ralph Bunche, U.S. government official and United Nations diplomat * Julia Carson, American politician * Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, American politician * John Conyers, politician * Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist * Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American air force general * Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., American general * David Dinkins, political leader * Joycelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General * William H. Hastie, U.S. jurist * Richard Gordon Hatcher, politician, law professor * A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent black federal judge and historian * Benjamin Hooks, American black leader * Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist * Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta * Daniel "Chappie" James, first black U.S. Air Force general * Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator * John Mercer Langston, public official, diplomat, educator * Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier * Thurgood Marshall, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court * Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader * Kweisi Mfume, politician, NAACP leader * Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer and government official * Barack Obama, U.S. politician * P. B. S. Pinchback, U.S. politician * Colin Powell, U.S. army general and public official * Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician and clergyman * Joseph Rainey, U.S. politician * A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader * Charles Rangel, U.S. politician * Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician * Condoleezza Rice, diplomat, professor * Myra C. Selby, attorney, Indiana jurist * Robert Smalls, U.S. captain in the Union navy and politician * Carl B. Stokes, American political leader * Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S.. Supreme Court * Harold Washington, American politician * J. C. Watts, politician * Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development * Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official * Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit, labor organizer	Religious Leaders * Richard Allen, American clergyman * Father Divine, American religious leader * Louis Farrakhan, religious leader * Henry Highland Garnet, American abolitionist clergyman * Prince Hall, clergyman, abolitionist * Barbara C. Harris, Anglican bishop * Benjamin Hooks, American black leader * Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist * Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader * Benjamin Franklin Muhammad, civil-rights and religious leader * Elijah Muhammad, black nationalist leader * Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician and clergyman * Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician * Fred Shuttlesworth, U.S. clergyman and civil rights activist * George Washington Williams, religious leader and historian * Peter Williams, Jr., religious leader * Peter Williams, Sr., religious leader * Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official
Scholars and Educators * Benjamin Banneker, American intellectual and scientist * Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator * Kenneth B. Clark, American educator and psychologist * W. E. B. Du Bois, American author and teacher * John Hope Franklin, American historian * Marcus Garvey, American proponent of black nationalism * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scholar * Archibald H. Grimke, African American author and crusader for black advancement * Richard Gordon Hatcher, law professor, politician * A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent black federal judge and historian * Anita Hill, lawyer, educator, author, activist * Zora Neale Hurston, American writer * John Johnson, publisher * Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator * Ernest Everest Just, biologist, educator * Maulana Karenga, scholar * John Mercer Langston, educator, public official, diplomat * Alain Locke, philosopher * Robert Russa Moton, educator * A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader * Virginia Randolph, educator * Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician * Joel Elias Spingarn, educator and literary critic * Booker T. Washington, American educator * Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development * Ida B. Wells-Barnett, journalist, activist * Cornel West, scholar * Walter White, American leader * Carter G. Woodson, U.S. historian and publisher	Scientists and Inventors * Archibald Alphonso Alexander, design and construction engineer * Benjamin Banneker, American intellectual and scientist * Patricia Bath, American inventor * Edward Bouchet, physicist, chemist * Benjamin Bradley, inventor * Herman Russell Branson, physicist * George Washington Carver, American agricultural chemist * Emmett W. Chappelle, biochemist * Jewel Plummer Cobb, biologist, physiologist * Rebecca Cole, physician * David Crosthwait, Jr., engineer, inventor * Mark Dean, American inventor * Martin Robinson Delany, American black leader, physician * Charles Richard Drew, physician * Clarence L. Elder, engineer and inventor * Philip Emeagwali, computer scientist, mathematician * Evan Forde, oceanographer * Lloyd Hall, chemist * Samuel Elmer Imes, chemist, physicist * Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician * Thomas L. Jennings, inventor * Frederick McKinley Jones, inventor * Percy Lavon Julian, chemist * Ernest Everest Just, biologist, educator * Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor * Henry Cecil Ransom McBay, chemist * Elijah McCoy, inventor * Garrett Augustus Morgan, inventor * Maurice F. Rabb, Jr., ophthalmologist * Norbert Rillieux, inventor * Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr., chemical engineer * Charles Henry Turner, entomologist * Sarah Breedlove "Madame C.J." Walker, inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist * Daniel Hale Williams, physician * Granville Woods, inventor * Roger Arliner Young, zoologist