3. Rosa Parks was an African-American seamstress who took the bus to and from work every day in Montgomery, Alabama. She had grown up in a segregated South, where there were separate rules for blacks and whites. For instance, on buses, if the rows of seats that were reserved for white passengers were full, then an African- American passenger would be required to give up their seat so that the white passenger could sit down. On every other day of her life, Rosa Parks had followed the rules of segregation. However, on December 1, 1955, she decided she was tired of giving in. When a white passenger entered an already full bus, the bus driver asked Rosa Parks and three other African- Americans sitting in her row, to stand up. The others stood up; Rosa Parks remained seated.

4. Harriet Tubman was a woman who helped slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman was in charge of the Underground Railroad. She helped slaves make it to the north. The Underground Railroad was a secret-passage way that helped slaves, have better live also didn't like Slave Owners because they were the people who captured slaves and sold them. You should find out more information. I know this because she is my Great cousin.

5. African-American history is filled with the tales of inspiring individuals—many of whom overcame great odds to leave their mark on the United States. In this group, we examine the lives of African Americans who have made extraordinary achievements in their fields, including inventors such as George Washington Carver; activists like Malcolm X and Rosa Parks; athletes such as Willie Mays and Michael Jordan; and entertainers like Bessie Smith and Oprah Winfrey. Their names, and their stories, have become synonymous with the rich legacy that is African-American culture.

6. Sojourner Truth (originally named Isabella Baum free), was born a slave in Ulster County, New York State, in about 1797. At the age of nine she was auctioned off to an Englishman named John Nealey. Over the next few years she was owned by a fisherman in Kingston and then by John Dumont, a plantation owner from New York County. Between 1810 and 1827 she had five children with a fellow slave. She was dismayed when one of her sons was sold to a plantation owner in Alabama. Sojourner Truth was a preacher, abolitionist, and a worker in the underground railroad. She was a great woman speaker and was always a determined worker.

7. Writer and African American activist Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Maya Angelou's five autobiographical novels were met with critical and popular success. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993, Angelou wrote a poem for Clinton's inauguration. In 2008, she earned a NAACP Award. She was a poet an author a playwright an actress a producer a director a singer a dancer a teacher a speaker a civil rights activist a mother and a grandmother An award for an achievement in American journalism, literature, or music. There are thirteen awarded each year

8. November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States. He officially became the first African-American president when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Barack Obama - Childhood and Education: Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He moved to Jakarta in 1967 where he lived for four years. At the age of 10, he returned to Hawaii and was raised by his maternal grandparents. After high school he attended first Occidental College and then Columbia University where he graduated with a degree in political science. Five years later he attended Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 1991.

9. Born Nov. 15, 1873, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., U.S died Feb. 22, 1945, New York, N.Y.) U.S. physician. She became the first American woman to receive a doctorate in public health. As the first director of New York City's Division of Child Hygiene (the first public agency devoted to child health), she helped make New York's infant-mortality rates the lowest of any major American city. She helped found the American Child Hygiene Association and organized what became the Children's Welfare Federation of New York. She published five books on child hygiene. Ella Baker created peace between white and colored people.

10. Andrew Young was born in March 12, 1932) is a noted Civil rights activist, was the former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and the United State's ambassador to the United Nations in the Jimmy Carter administration. Andrew Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a dentist and his mother a school teacher. After one year at New Orleans' Dillard University, in 1947 Young went to Howard University in Washington D.C. where he received his Bachelor of Science and pre-med degree in 1951. He had originally planned to follow his father's career of dentistry, but then felt a religious calling. He entered the ministry and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955. He was a politician who also was a supporter and friend of rev. Martin Luther king JR.