1. African Americans who have influenced our lives for the better

2. To recognize all the struggles the African American people have been through and what was done to achieve them. To remember America’s history: we are all Americans and have an equal right to be here. To honor those brave people who had big dreams and lived them so others could follow their own dream.

3. Booker T. Washington George Washington Carver Oprah Winfrey Tiger Woods Michael Jordan Maya Angelou Sojouner Truth W.E.B. Du Bois Langston Hughes Colin Powell

4. Fredrick Douglas Marian Anderson Jackie Robinson Madam C.J. Walker Garrett Morgan Lewis Howard Latimer Joe Lewis Condoleezza Rice Barack Obama Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr.