ArecordofwhatBlackAmericabuiltandwhatwastaken.

Started with $1.25. Employed forty thousand. America's first self-made female millionaire.

Built the first Black-owned billion-dollar company.

The first woman of any race to charter a bank in America.

Invented the traffic signal. Invented the gas mask. Saved lives on both counts.

No American flight school would teach her. So she learned French and went to Paris.

44th President of the United States. First Black President.

49th Vice President. First Black woman, first South Asian, first woman.

First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Won Brown v. Board of Education.

First Black U.S. Senator. Took the seat Jefferson Davis had held.

Freed Southern agriculture from cotton. Refused to patent his discoveries.

John Glenn would not fly the Friendship 7 until she verified the numbers.

Built the modern blood supply. Resigned when it was segregated.

First Black woman physician with a U.S. medical patent.

First Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court. First Black woman federal judge.

116th Supreme Court Justice. First Black woman on the court.

First Black woman billionaire. Built a media empire from a fired news desk.

Built a $130M Black business empire. Bailed Dr. King out of the Birmingham jail.

Paid off every 2019 Morehouse graduate's student debt. $34 million, in one sentence.

The most photographed American of the 19th century.

Invented investigative journalism on racial violence. Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 2020).

First Black PhD from Harvard. Founded the sociology of Black America.