An introduction to some black men and women who have overcome obstacles to make significant contributions.Ira Aldridge; Muhammad Ali; Marian Anderson; Benjamin Banneker; Mary McLeod Bethune; Joseph Cinque; Fanny M. Coppin; Frederick Douglass; William E. B. DuBois; Jean DuSable; Katherine Dunham; Duke Ellington; Aretha Franklin; Marcus Garvey; Althea Gibson; Lorraine Hansberry; Matthew Henson; Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston; Rex Ingram; Jesse Jackson; James Weldon Johnson; Ulysses Kay; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Edmonia Lewis; Alaine Locke; Thurgood Marshall; Willie Mays; Constance B. Motley; Kwame Nkrumah; Jesse Owens; Rosa Parks; Adam Clayton Powell; Benjamin Quarles; Paul Robeson; Wilma Rudolph; Bessie Smith; William Grant Still; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; Leslie Uggams; Denmark Vesey; Booker T. Washington; Ethel Waters, Ida B. Wells; Phillis Wheatley; Malcolm X; Whitney Young; Shaka Zulu.