3.Nelson Mandela co-founded South Africa's first all-black law firm with Oliver Tambo.
4.Zora Neale Hurston got a B.A. in anthropology in 1928 from Barnard College, where she was the only black student and the school's first black graduate.
5.During World War II, Lena Horne refused to perform for segregated audiences at USO shows.
6.Malcolm X first earned notoriety in the U.S. in 1957, when he rallied Nation of Islam members at a Harlem NYPD precinct in protest of police brutality.
9.George Washington Carver developed a mobile classroom to bring his agricultural teachings directly to farms and the community.
10.Angela Davis co-founded Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization working toward eliminating the prison industrial complex.
11.Frederick Douglass was the only known African-American man to sign a petition for women's suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights.
12.Maya Angelou worked as a calypso singer and dancer around San Francisco in the mid-1950s.
13.Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest during a Harlem book signing.