Its Black History Month guys. Come in and list significant leaders who were the first to do something in their profession. List someone who changed their profession for the better racially, please don't list the obvious. I'd like to see you guys list African Americans who are unknown but did huge things to further African Americans into the forefront. I will start:

Earl 'Black Jesus' Monroe:

Billie Holiday





Date: March 1939

An adaptation of Abel Meeropol's 1937 poem "Bitter Fruit," "Strange Fruit" has become one of Billie Holiday's most well-known performances, a poignant, tour-de-force exposing the widespread lynching of African Americans in the United States. In 1939, Holiday first performed the song at Cafe Society in Greenwich Village New York. She came to her label, Columbia, with the record, but, worried about backlash in the South, the label wouldn't record it. Instead, they released her from her contract for one session. She recorded the song through Vocalion records, and it sold a million copies, becoming her highest-selling record. So much for playing it safe.

Nat Turner
Nathaniel "Nat" Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths. He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia.



February 23, 1868:
W. E. B. DuBois, important civil rights leader and co-founder of the NAACP, was born.

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor.

I don't remember her full name but Bessie was the first African-American female pilot

Just search some info about her

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descent[1] and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license.[2][3]

Booker T Washington >>> WEB Du Bois


My taste>>>>>

Madame C J. Walker.
First African American female millionaire.
Thank sistren walker for perms.

Frederick Douglass >>>>> both of them

But WEB Du Bois >>>>> Booker T "lets sacrifice our rights so the South can get rich" Washington

Two ladies who created Happy Birthday were actually black. we truly lead the way.

OT Why does my BHM thread get no replies but all these other threads get some?

Anyway,I'm more into Black architecture BTW.

Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Shirley Chisholm
Jesse Jackson
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama

that is incredible

Guion Bluford - First Black person in space

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