This famous doctor opened the first hospital with an integrated staff (which means both black and white nurses and doctors worked there)
Daniel Hale Williams
Born in 1956, she was an engineer, doctor and NASA astronaut! She was the first African-American woman to travel to space
Mae Jemison
Born in 1877 and only having an elementary education, he invented the traffic light and a hair-straightening product
Garrett Morgan
Born in 1845 she was the first African-American in the US to earn a professional nursing license
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Born in 1918 she was a mathematician who worked for NASA. Her calculations of orbital mechanics helped early U.S. crewed spaceflights
Katherine Johnson
He grew up as Shawn Carter in the projects of Brooklyn, New York. He's one of the greatest rappers of all time, he's worth 610 Million Dollars. He's married to Beyonce
Jay Z
One of the most influential Jazz musicicans of all time, he helped to make Jazz music popular across the U.S. and the world
Louis Armstrong
He is the only actor to gross $100 million domestically with eight movies in a row
Will Smith
He was an American artist with Haitian and Puerto Rican roots.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
He is an American painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include the African-American subject
Titus Kaphar
She's won 24 Grammys, dabbled in acting, producing, and directing, and launched an activewear collection.
Beyonce
He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
George Washington Carver
She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America.
Madam C.J. Walker
He was an American inventor and patent draftsman for the patents of the incandescent light bulb
Lewis Latimer
He is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
She was an early pioneer of laser cataract surgery.
Patricia Bath
