1) Alvin Ailey - dancer who expressed the African-American experience through dance 2) Toni Morrison - author who wrote about the Black experience 3) Little Rock Nine - first students to integrate a white-only high school in Arkansas 4) Misty Copeland - first African American ballerina promoted to principal dancer 5) Harriet Tubman - Abolitionist and activist who freed 70 slaves and her own family 6) Katherine Johnson - African American mathematician and NASA researcher 7) Louis Armstrong - one of America’s most influential jazz trumpeters. 8) Malcolm X - African American civil rights leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam 9) Barack Obama - First African American President 10) Shirley Chisolm - politician and first African American to be elected to the United States Congress 11) Ruby Bridges - first black child to integrate a white-only school in Louisiana 12) Dr. Mae Jemison - the first African American woman in space 13) Langston Hughes - African American poet and social activist, and leader of the Harlem Renssaince 14) Tuskegee Airmen - the first black pilots in American military history 15) Sidney Poitier - first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor 16) Shani Davis - first African American athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Olympic Winter Games 17) Rosa Parks - African American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

Black History Month: Historical Figures

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