Heroes and Legends

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No Need to "Re-invent the Wheel"!

There are many examples of people who have made a difference for the better.

George Alcorn (&) Nathaniel Alexander (&) Virgie Ammons (&) Marian Anderson (&) Arthur Ashe (&) Benjamin Banneker (&) Amiri Baraka (&) Patricia Bath (&) Andrew Jackson Beard (&) Harry Belafonte (&) Mary McLeod Bethune (&) Miriam E. Benjamin (&) Edmond Berger (&) Henry Blair (&) Bessie Blount (&) Sarah Boone (&) Otis Boykin (&) Ralph Bunche (&) Charles Brooks (&) Phil Brooks (&) Henry Brown (&) Marie Brown (&) John Albert Burr (&) Imhotep Gary Byrd (&) Stokely Carmichal (&) George Washington Carver (&) George Carruthers (&) Benjamin S. Carson (&) Emmett W. Chappelle (&) John Christian (&) Donald Cotton (&) David Crosthwait (&) Mark Dean (&) Ronald Demon (&) Joseph Hunter Dickinson (&) Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus (&) Dr. Charles Richard Drew (&) Frederick Douglass (&) W.E.B. DuBois (&) Paul Lawrence Dunbar (&) Thomas Elkins (&) Philip Emeagwali (&) Marcus Garvey (&) Sarah E. Goode (&) Meredith C. Gourdine (&) George Grant (&) Lloyd Augustus Hall (&) Fannie Lou Hamer (&) Matthew Alexander Henson (&) Augustus Jackson (&) Thomas L. Jennings (&) Jack Johnson (&) Lonnie Johnson (&) Willis Johnson (&) Frederick Jones (&) Marjorie Stewart Joyner (&) Dr. Percy Lavon Julian (&) Ernest Everett Just (&) Roscoe Koontz (&) Fred Thompson (&) Lewis Howard Latimer (&) Joseph Lee (&) John Lee Love (&) Jan Ernst Matzeliger (&) Elijah McCoy (&) Alexander Miles (&) Ruth Miro (&) Cecil B. Moore (&) Harry T. Moore (&) Garrett Morgan (&) Toni Morrison (&) Lyda Newman (&) Gil Noble (&) Alice Parker (&) Traverse Benjamin Pinn (&) Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (&) Willam Purvis (&) Lloyd P Ray (&) Cordell Reed (&) Louis Roberts (&) James Weldon Johnson (&) Jan Ernest Matzeliger (&) Jesse Owens (&) A. Philip Randolph (&) Paul Robeson (&) Sojourner Truth (&) Harriett Tubman (&) Cynthia Delores Tucker (&) Ida B. Wells (&) Granville T. Woods (&) Carter G. Woodson (&) Phillis Wheatley (&) Whitney Moore Young (&) Norbert Rillieux (&) Walter Sammons (&) Henry Sampson (&) Jerry Shelby (&) Richard Spikes (&) John Standard (&) Mavis Staples (&) Thomas Stewart (&) Rufus Stokes (&) Percy Sutton (&) Lewis Temple (&) Valerie Thomas (&) John Henry Thompson (&) Kwame Toure (&) Madame Walker (&) James Edward West (&) John Thomas White (&) Doctor Daniel Hale Williams (&) Paul E. Williams (&) Joseph Winters (&) Georgie Woods (&) Granville Woods (&) Kevin Woolfolk

The Internet is an excellent resource to obtain information about
these and other Pacesetters, Heroes and Legends
who have consistently been willing to serve humanity.