Periodic Table of African Americans Part One
Created by Deirdre Smith of JDaniel4’s Mom Based on a Table Created by Lakeland Public Library
Key to the Colors
= Athletes
= Activist
= Actors and Actress = Visual or Performing Artists
= Authors
= Politicians
= Entrepreneurs
= Famous Firsts
= Musicians
= Scientists
1
Benjamin Banneker 11.9.1731 – 10.9.1806
2
George Foreman 1.10.1949
Fredrick Douglass 2.14.1818- 2.20.1895
3
Marian Anderson 2.27.1897- 4.8.1993
4
Blanche Bruce 3.1.1841
5
David Blackwell 4.24.1919- 7.8.2010
6
Edward Bouchet 9.15.1852- 1.28.1918
7
Otis Boykin
8.29.1920- 3.13.1982
8
Katherine Johnson
8.26.1918
9
Samuel T. Wilcox 9.2.1776- 3.4.1842
10
Medgar Evers 7.2.1925- 6.12.1963
11
Matthew A. Henson 8.8.1866- 3.9.1955
12
Ruby Dee 10.27.1942- 6.11.2014
13
Shirley Chisholm 11.30.1924- 1.1.2005
14
George Carruthers 10.1.1939
15
Annie Easley
4.23.1933- 6.25.2011
16
Marie Maynard Daly
4.16.1921- 10.28.2003
17
Clara Brown 1.1.1800- 10.23.1885
18
A. Philip Randolph 4.15.1889- 5.16.1979
19
Mae Jamison 10.17.1956
20
Maya Angelou 4.4.1928- 5.28.2014
21
Alex Haley 8.11.1921- 2.10.1992
22
Patricia McKissack 8.9.1944- 4.7.2017
23
Walter Dean Myers 8.12.1937- 7.1.2014
24
Octavia Butler 6.22.1947- 2.24.2006
25
Henry Louis Gates Jr. 9.16.1950
26
Phyllis Wheatley 5.8.1753- 12.5.1784
27
Marian Hoffman 3.26.1944
28
Virginia Hamilton 3.12.1934- 2.19.2002
29
Halle Berry 8.18.66
30
Pearl Bailey 3.29.1918- 8.17.1990
31
Barbara Johnson 2.21.1936- 1.17.1996
32
John Lewis 2.21.1940
33
George Washington Carver
1.1.1864- 1.5.1943
34
Bettye Washington Greene
3.20.1935- 6.16.1995
35
Annie Turnbo Malone
8.9.1877- 5.10.1957
36
Martin Luther King Jr. 1.15.1929- 4.4.1968
37
L.Douglas Wilder 1.17.1931
38
Langston Hughes 2.1.1902- 5.22.1967
39
Jerry Pinkney 12.22.1939
40
Carole Boston Weatherford
2.13.1956
41
John Steptoe 8.12.1937- 7.1.2014
42
Toni Morrison 2.18.1931
43
Oprah Winfrey 1.29.1954
44
Rita Williams Garcia 4.13.1957
45
Ralph Ellison 3.1.1914-4.16.1984
46
Booker T. Washington 4.5.1856- 11.14.1915
47
Morgan Freeman 6.1.37
48
Whoopi Goldberg
11.13.1955
49
James Earle Jones
1.17.1931
50
Barack Obama
8.4.1961
51
Condoleezza Rice
11.14.1954
52
Roger Arliner Young
1889- 11.9.1964
53
Jay-Z 12.4.1969
54
Sojourner Truth 1791- 11.26.1883
55
Hiram Revels 11.27.1827- 1.16.1901
56
Muhammad Ali 1.17.1942 – 6.3.2016
57
Arthur Ashe 7.10.1943- 2.6.1993
58
LeBron James 12.30.1984
59
Michael Jordon 2.17.1963
60
Jesse Owens 9.12.1913 – 3.31.1980
61
Jackie Robinson 1.31.1919 – 10.24.1972
62
Serena Williams 9.26.1981
63
Jaqueline Woodson 2.12.1963
64
Derrick Barnes 4.5.1856- 11.14.1915
65
Nichelle Nichols 12.28.1932
66
Sidney Poitier 2.20.1927
67
Issa Rae 1.1.2.1985
68
Will Smith 9.25.1968
69
Jamie Fox
12.13.1967
70
Carol Moseley Braun
8.16.1947
71
Oprah Winfrey
1.29.1954
72
Rosa Parks 2.4.1913- 10.24.2005
73
Thurgood Marshall 7.2.1908- 1.24.1993
74
Louis Armstrong 8.4.1901 – 7.6.1971
75
Chuck Berry 10.18.1926- 3.18.2017
76
Stevie Wonder 5.13.50
77
Aretha Franklin 3.25.1942- 8.16.2018
78
Diana Ross 3.26.1944
79
Prince 6.7.1958- 4.21.2016
80
Esperanza Spalding 1.18.1984
81
Alvin Ailey 1.5.1931- 12.1.1989
82
Edmonia Lewis
7.4.1844-9.17.1907
83
Jacob Lawrence 9.7.1917
84
Arthur Mitchell 3.27.1934- 9.19.218
85
Amy Sherald 8.30.1973
86
Alma Thomas 9.22.1891- 2.24.1978
87
Misty Copeland
9.10.1992
88
Debbie Allen
1.16.1950
89
Beauford Delaney
90
12.30.1901- 3.26.1979