Information on African-American heroes covering more than 150 years of American history.

Frederick Douglass -- Matthew Henson -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Bessie Coleman -- Paul Robeson -- Satchel Paige -- Thurgood Marshall -- Pauli Murray -- Joe Louis -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Jacob Lawrence -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Shirley Chisholm -- Malcolm X -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Judith Jamison -- Ruth Simmons -- Ben Carson.