Claudette Colvin - At the age of 15, refused to give up her seat… 9 months before Rosa Parks

Black Powerboat Racing Champion - Charles Marks

First Black Female Race Jockey - Cheryl White

Black Inventor of Fire Escape Ladder - Joseph Winters

Safe Bus Co - 1960s Largest Black Bus Company

Champion of the Court and Courage

Believer of Education Power: Elizabeth Wright

First Black Golf Country Club

Female Inventor of Tech for TouchTone Phone, Caller ID

Black Distiller that taught Jack Daniels - Nearest Green

Pioneering Black Architect - Paul Williams

Black Inventor of Ranch Dressing - Steve Henson

Pioneering Female Architect - Beverly Greene

OW Gurley - Black Wall Street Baron #blackexcellist

HBCU: Alabama State University

The Streetcar Crusader: Sarah Fossett #blackexcellist

Black Gatekeeper of the Internet- Emmitt McHenry

Harlem Renaissance Sculptor - James Richmond Barthe

Educator who Transformed Lives of 2000 Students - Charlotte Hawkins Brown

First Black Filmmaker - Oscar Micheaux

First Televised Cooking Show - Lena Richard

First Black Graduate of Harvard University & Educator - Richard T. Greener

Black Man discovered Insects Can Hear & See Colors - Charles Turner #blackexcellist

First Cookbook by Black Woman - Malinda Russell - free Tennessee cook #blackexcellist

First Black woman with B.A College Degree - Mary Jane Patterson #blackexcellist

Henry Johnson - Buffalo Soldier in US Army who earned Medal of Honor #blackexcellist #blackhistory

Freedom House Ambulance Services - Paramedic Pioneers in EMS #blackexcellist #blackhistory

The Black Architect & Fraternity Founder - Vertner Tandy

Prolific Novelist, Poet, Playwright - James Baldwin #blackexcellist #blackexcellist

From Student to Janitor to Donor - Laurence Ousley

First Black Female Judge- Jane Bolin

Black Man Who Saved America from Smallpox Epidemic - Onesimus

Black Man Who Performed 1st Heart Surgery- Daniel Hale Williams

First Black Female Police - Georgia Ann Hill Robinson

Richest Black Girl in America (1912) - Sarah Rector

Black Renaissance Man & Inventor - Lewis Latimer #blackexcellist #blackhistory

California Gold Rush Entrepreneur- Mary Pleasant #blackexcellist #blackhistory

Pioneering Educator - Mary Kelsey Peake #blackexcellist #blackhistory

First Black American Female Pilot - Bessie Coleman #blackexcellist #blackhistory

IBM Black Engineer Pioneer - Mark Dean #blackhistory #blackexcellist

NAACP Attorney “Man Who Killed of Jim Crow” - Charles Houston #blackexcellist #blackhistory

First Black Female Pulitzer Prize Winner - Gwendolyn Brooks #blackexcellist #blackhistory

Founder of Largest Black Newspaper of 20th Century- Robert Abbott #blackexcellist #blackhistory

First Black Pro Football Player - Charles Follis #blackexcellist #blackhistory

Black Renaissance Man & Masterful Photographer - Gordon Parks #blackexcellist #blackhistory

First Black Medal of Honor - William Carney #blackexcellist #blackhistory

First Black Female Self-Made Millionaire - Madam CJ Walker #blackexcellist #blackhistory #cjwalker

First Black International Sports Star - Major Taylor #blackexcellist #blackhistory #majortaylor