| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Richard Allen |
Religion |
14-Feb-1760 |
26-Mar-1831 |
Founder, African Episcopal Methodist Church |
| Crispus Attucks |
Activist |
1723 |
5-Mar-1770 |
First man killed in the American Revolution |
| Blanche K. Bruce |
Politician |
1-Mar-1841 |
17-Mar-1898 |
US Senator, former slave |
| George Washington Carver |
Botanist |
c. 1860 |
5-Jan-1943 |
Crop rotation and peanut butter |
| Frederick Douglass |
Activist |
Feb-1817 |
20-Feb-1895 |
Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer |
| Epictetus |
Philosopher |
c. 55 AD |
c. 135 AD |
Stoic, wrote Encheiridion |
| Sally Hemings |
Relative |
1773 |
1835 |
Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress |
| Harriet Ann Jacobs |
Author |
1813 |
7-Mar-1897 |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Military |
20-May-1743 |
7-Apr-1803 |
Led the 1791 Slave Rebellion |
| James C. Napier |
Government |
9-Jun-1845 |
21-Apr-1940 |
Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank |
| Juan de Pareja |
Painter |
c. 1606 |
1670 |
Velázquez's slave turned painter |
| Joseph Rainey |
Politician |
21-Jun-1832 |
1-Aug-1887 |
Congressman from South Carolina, 1870-79 |
| Dred Scott |
Victim |
c. 1799 |
17-Sep-1858 |
Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court |
| Robert Smalls |
Politician |
5-Apr-1839 |
23-Feb-1915 |
Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina |
| Sojourner Truth |
Activist |
c. 1797 |
26-Nov-1883 |
Abolitionist, former slave |
| Harriet Tubman |
Activist |
c. 1821 |
10-Mar-1913 |
Underground Railroad |
| Nat Turner |
Military |
2-Oct-1800 |
11-Nov-1831 |
Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| Booker T. Washington |
Educator |
5-Apr-1856 |
14-Nov-1915 |
Founder, Tuskegee Institute |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
Activist |
16-Jul-1862 |
25-Mar-1931 |
Civil rights advocate |
