2. Rickey signed Robinson to a Dodgers farm team that year and two years later had moved him up, making Robinson the first African American player to play on a major league. After Robinson's historical breakthrough base ball was steadily integrated

3. Gorge Washington carver Gorge Washington carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink,, plastics, soap, medicinal oils and cosmetics. He invented some of the things we use to day

4. Rosa parks On December 1, 1955, an African American woman named Rosa Parks was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man. Her quote was I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed&.I had decided that I will have to know once and for all what rights I had as a person and a citizen. She is the reason we can ride the bus and sit were ever we want

5. Martin Luther king In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the noble peace prize for his work to end racial segergation and racial disorienting through civil disobedience and other non- violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on en

6. Thurgood marshal Thurgood marshal was the first African American ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Lyndon b. Johnson, and served on the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991.