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The men and women who are honored and remembered during Black History Month are many in number—and some of them are highlighted below. Choose any person in particular and then navigate within the window that will open. Or close the window and select a new person to read about.

  • Ralph Abernathy
  • Carol Moseley-Braun
  • Frederick Douglass
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • James Farmer
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Benjamin Hooks
  • Jesse Jackson
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Malcolm X
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Colin Powell
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Roy Wilkins
  • Andrew Young
  • More profiles

  • Maya Angelou: 1st Person
  • Follow Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Footsteps
  • Jesse Jackson: 1st Person
  • Rosa Parks: "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
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