1998-present Birthplace: Los Angeles, California National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States Poet Activist Author Model. Amanda...

1954-present Birthplace: Tylertown, Mississippi First African American student to desegregate an all-white school at 6 years old Civil...

Katherine Coleman Johnson 1918-2020 Birthplace: White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia Widowed mother of 3 in 1959 remarrying 3 years later...

1820-22(?)-1913 Birthplace: Dorchester County, Maryland – born into slavery Conductor of the Underground Railroad Soldier Nurse Suffrage...