African-American History Trading Cards
Civil rights activist, and Nobel
Peace Prize winner who used
civil disobedience as a form of
protest.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 -1968
Country harmonica player
who was the first person to
perform on the Grand Ole
Opry stage and radio show.
DeFord Bailey
1899 -1982
Cardiologist who performed
the first successful open heart
surgery.
Daniel Hale Williams
1858 -1931
Civil rights activist who was the
first African-American
nominated for Vice President of
the United States.
Frederick Douglass
1818 -1895
Abolitionist who led over 70 First African-American world
people to freedom using the heavyweight boxing
Underground Railroad. champion.
Harriet Tubman Jack Johnson
1820 -1913 1878 -1946
Botanist whose research proved
18th Surgeon General of the the benefits of peanuts, soy
United States. beans & sweet potatoes for
both humans and depleted soil.
Regina Benjamin George Washington Carver
1956 - 1864 -1943
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Inventor who invented the First African-American woman

Aviator who was the first Human rights activist who to graduate from Yale Law
three-position traffic signal created the Organization of
African-American to hold an and the gas mask. School and the first to serve as
international pilot license. Afro-American Unity. a judge in the United States.
Bessie Coleman Garrett Morgan Malcolm X Jane Bolin
1892 -1926 1877 - 1963 1925 -1965 1908 - 2007

Lawyer who won landmark

Clergyman and civil rights Brown v. Board of Education
activist and one of the Journalist and human rights case and was the first Singer who was the first
founders of the Leadership activist who helped found African-American Supreme African-American to win a
Conference on Civil Rights. the NAACP. Court Justice. Grammy Award.

Roy Wilkins Ida B. Wells-Barnett Thurgood Marshall Ella Fitzgerald

1901 -1981 1862 -1931 1908 -1993 1917 -1996

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Clergyman and civil rights
activist who founded PUSH
and the Rainbow Coalition.
Jesse Jackson
1941 -
Author and poet who was the
first African-American woman
to have a non-fiction work make
the best-seller list.
Maya Angelou
1928 - 2014
First African-American whose
signature was represented on First African-American to host Clergyman who was the first
U.S. paper currency. a television variety show. African-American Senator.
Blanche Bruce Nat King Cole Hiram Rhodes Revels
1858 -1931 1919 -1965 1827 -1901
Civil rights activist and
educator who founded the Choreographer and founder of Educator and reformer who
the world-famous Alvin Ailey was the first president of
National Council of Negro
Women. American Dance Theater. Tuskegee University.
Mary McLeod Bethune Alvin Ailey Booker T. Washington
1875 -1955 1931 -1989 1856 -1915
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First African-American graduate
of West Point Academy and the
first African-American
commander in the U.S Army.
Henry O. Flipper
1856 -1940
Civil rights activist who was
the first African-American to
graduate from Harvard and
who helped found the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois
1868 -1963
Baseball player who was the
Professional tennis player who first African-American Major
was the first African-American
League Baseball player of the First female self-made
to win the U.S. Open. modern era. millionaire in America.
Arthur Ashe Jackie Robinson Madame C.J. Walker
1960 -1988 1919 -1972 1867 -1919
First African-American artist to Baseball player who was the
have their painting enter the first African-American Major
First African-American woman permanent collection of the League Baseball player of the
to win the Best Actress Oscar. White House. modern era.
Halle Berry Henry Ossawa Tanner Jackie Robinson
1966 - 1859 -1937 1919 -1972
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Neurosurgeon who led the
first successful operation to
separate a pair of conjoined
twin infants.
Ben Carson
1951 -
U.S. Congressman and civil
rights activist who was one of
the original thirteen Freedom
Riders.
John Lewis
1940 -
Educator and politician who
was the first woman to run for
the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Shirley Chisholm
1924 -2005
Human rights activist who
founded the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent
Social Change.
Coretta Scott King
1927 - 2006
Civil rights leader during the Contralto singer who was the
depression and one of the first first African-American to sing
African-American at the Metropolitan Opera
Congressmen. House.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Marian Anderson
1908 -1972 1897 -1993
Political scientist and diplomat
who was the first
First African-American to hold
the office of President of the African-American to win the
Nobel Peace Prize.
United States.
Barack Obama Ralph Bunche
1961 - 1904 - 1971
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Baseball player who was the
Singer who was the first femal first African-American Major
artist inducted into the Rock League Baseball player of the
and Roll Hall of Fame. modern era.
Aretha Franklin Jackie Robinson
1942 - 1919 -1972
Inventor and physicist who
Activist for civil rights, developed the first
socialism, pacifism, and gay moon-based space
rights who helped organize
the first Freedom Ride.
observatory: an ultraviolet
camera on Apollo 16.
Bayard Rustin George Carruthers
1912 -1987 1939 -
Abolitionist and womens
rights activist who was one of Activist and journalist who
the first African-American was the first African-American
women to win a lawsuit woman to serve on a Board of
against a white man. Education.
Sojourner Truth Mary Church Terrell
1797 -1883 1863 -1954
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