Famous Historical Black Americans List

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Get the information about famous Historical Americans who are got the prestige by their working. The list of famous African Americans is presented randomly without any particular order of field and without any regard to living and non-living legends. Every year America celebrated black history day on February month, which was established since 1926. Benjamin Banneker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln, Jesse Owens, President Barack Obama, Michael Joseph Jackson are one of them.

Follow the list for detailed about famous black African Americans:

Benjamin Banneker: Benjamin Banneker is an African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Banneker's life is inspirational. Despite the popular prejudices of his times, the man was quite unwilling to let his race or his age hinder in any way his thirst for intellectual development.

Dr. George Washington Carver: one of the great scientist, botanist, educator and inventor transforming southern agriculture. He discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean and thus stimulated the culture of these crops. He devised many products from cotton waste and extracted blue, purple, and red pigments from local clay.

W.E.B. DuBois: An African American educator, author, historian, sociologist, philosopher, poet, and leader. Besides being one of the founders of the NAACP, he was the very first African American to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard University.

Marian Anderson: First African American Opera singer was well known for her extraordinary contralto voice. . She was the first African American to be named a permanent member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, as well as the first to perform at the White House

Maya Angelou: A world famous poet, author, historian singer and civil rights activist. This Grammy and Horatio Alger award winner was raised in segregated rural Arkansas.

Jesse Owens: He was a track and field athlete who won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Influenced by principles and practices of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. he took the role of Defense.

B.B King: The guitarist B.B. King has been called the undisputed King of the Blues.

Les McCann: The legendary godfather of contemporary soul-jazz is known for his smooth and funky spontaneity.

Toni Morrison : Famous author of such works as "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", "Tar baby", and many other great works. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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