Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Ancient Africans

Ahmos; Astronomer-Priestesses; Cleopatra; Imhotep; Pharaoh Khufu; Pharaoh Menes; Olmec Head; Makeda, The Queen of Sheba; Queen Tiye; Pharaoh Tutankhamen; Pharaoh Tuthmosis III; Pharaoh Zoser

Chapter 2 - Later Africans

Queen Amina; Yah-Asantewa; Ahmed Baba; Cinque; Queen Nzinga; Sunni Ali Ber; Toussaint L’Ouverture

Chapter 3 - Civil War

Alexander Thomas Augusta; William Blackwell; William Bronson; William H. Carney; Martin R. Delaney; Christian Abraham Fleetwood; John Henry Lawson; Robert Scott Smalls; Stephen Atkin Swails

Chapter 4 - Politicians

William H. Gray, III; Senator Carol Moseley-Braun; Pres. Barack Obama; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; Black Reconstruction Congress; Lawrence Douglas Wilder

Chapter 5 - Scientists

Colonel Guion Bluford; Dr. Benjamin S. Carson; Dr. George R. Carruthers; Dr. Charles Drew; Clarence Harris; Mae Jemison; Dr. Katherine G. Johnson; Dr. Percy Lavon Julian; Jan Ernst Matzeliger; Elijah McCoy; Garrett A. Morgan; Norbert Rillieux; Dr. Daniel Hale Williams; Granville T. Woods

Chapter 6 - Athletes

Muhammad Ali; Joseph Barrow Louis; Jesse Owens; Jackie Robinson

Chapter 7 - Civil Rights

Frederick Douglass; Marcus Mosiah Garvey; Jesse Jackson; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Nelson Mandela; Thurgood Marshall; Rosa Louise McCauley Parks; A. Philip Randolph; Arthur A. Schomberg; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Ross Tubman; Nat Turner; Ida B. Wells; Malcolm X

Chapter 8 - Entertainers

Marian Anderson; Cabell “Cab” Calloway, III; Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington; Mahalia Jackson; Leontyne Price; Paul Robeson; Ethel Waters

Chapter 9 - Writers

James Baldwin; Gwendolyn Brooks; W. E. B. DuBois; Alexandre Dumas; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Lorraine Hansberry; Langston Hughes; James Weldon Johnson; Alexander Pushkin

Chapter 10 - Business Leaders

Robert Sengstacke Abbott; James Forten; John H. Johnson; John B. Russwurm; Charles Clinton Spaulding; Leon Howard Sullivan; Robert L. Vann; Maggie Lena Walker

Chapter 11 - Artists

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Chapter 12 - Historians

Carter Godwin Woodson

Chapter 13 - Religious Leaders

Bishop Richard Allen

Chapter 14 - Educators

Mary McLeod Bethune; Frances “Fanny” Jackson Coppin; Alain L. Locke

Chapter 15 - Armed Service Heroes

General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.; Captain Erwin Lawrence; General Colin L. Powell; Colonel Charles A. Young

Chapter 16 - Pioneers

Matthew A. Henson; Bill Pickett