Famous Black Americans

Muhammad Ali
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0803335.html


Maya Angelou
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0804025.html


Louis Armstrong
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0804776.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/estevanico/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress/louis_1
http://pbskids.org/jazz/nowthen/louis.html
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/class/armstrong/la_match.asp


Benjamin Banneker
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/banneker/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/jb_date.cgi?day=09&month=11
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html#bio

Otis Boykin
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/boykin/
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/boykin.html

Ruby Bridges
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
elibrary elementary
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/history/spotlight_september.html


George Washington Carver
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0810661.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/carver/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/scientists/carver
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/gwcoverview.htm
http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/index.html?page=/outthere/black_history/index.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/carver.html


Ray Charles
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0811469.html8



Bessie Coleman
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/coleman/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=182


Bill Cosby
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0813691.html1


Frederick Douglass
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/bio4kids-meet-douglass.jsp
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0815988.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/douglass/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/douglass
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress/douglass_1


William Edward Burghardt DuBois
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/dubois/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/dubois


Duke Ellington
Kids InfoBits
http://pbskids.org/jazz/nowthen/duke.html
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/class/ellington/de_match.asp


Ella Fitzgerald
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0818803.html


Aretha Franklin
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0154745.html


Matthew Henson
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/henson/


Mae C. Jemison
Kids InfoBits
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775690.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/space/mae_jemison/index.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/jemison/


Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0827680.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/king/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/king
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/king


Thurgood Marshall
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0831961.html
http://www.factmonster.com/biography/var/thurgoodmarshall.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/marshall/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/marshallthrgd

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/mccoy/
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775694.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/mccoy.html
http://www.ncalifblackengineers.org/Elijah McCoy.htm



Garrett Augustus Morgan
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0878299.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0932275.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/morgan.html


Jesse Owens
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/owens/
http://www.factmonster.com/biography/var/jesseowens.html

Rosa Parks
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0837678.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/parks/
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4809
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1122822,00.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9374595


Jackie Robinson
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,1035133,00.html
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/robinson_jackie.htm
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,93126,00.html


Sojourner Truth
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9511284
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,203485,00.html
http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/extra/women/
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/truth/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=158


Harriet Tubman
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0849622.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/tubman/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/tubman
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/tubman
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=159
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9073673


Madam C. J. Walker
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/walker/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=163
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/cjwalker.html


Booker T. Washington
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0851531.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/btwashington/


Phyllis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/revolut/poetslav_1
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0852026.html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html#people


Granville T. Woods
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/woods/
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/woods.html

Malcolm X
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0831348.html