Nelson Mandela
Apartheid Activist & First Black President of South Africa
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist & Revolutionary
Shirley Chisholm
The first African American woman in Congress
Fannie Lou Hamer
Voting Rights Activist
Ruby Bridges
Icon for School Integration
John Lewis
“Good Trouble” Activist & State Representative
Charlotte E. Ray
First U.S. African American Lawyer
Ida B Wells
Pioneering Journalist
Thurgood Marshall
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Michelle Obama
American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States