ALT In 1968, Chisholm became the first Black woman in Congress. She was also the first Black woman to seek a presidential nomination from a major political party. A former educator, she was also a member of Women's League of voters , and the NAACP. She was a champion of gender and racial equality legislation and cofounded the National Political Congress of Black Women.

ALT Floyd Norman was the first Black animator for Disney. He worked on movies like The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmations, and Monsters Inc. He founded his own animation company, Vignette Films, producing one of the first films on Black history. He has won multiple lifetime achievement awards, and continues doing work for Disney.

ALT Dr. Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Corbett is an American viral immunologist for the NIH and Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious diseases at Harvard. She played a key role in the development of the COVID vaccine, is an advocate for STEM education particularly in underserved communities, and has won several highly esteemed awards such as NAACP's Key of Life.

ALT Mark E. Dean is an inventor and computer engineer who developed the one-gigahertz computer processing chip for IBM. This led to his co-creation of IBM's personal computer (PC) released in 1981. He holds several other patents with IBM, including one for a color PC monitor. In 1997, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

ALT Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company when she stepped up as CEO for Xerox in 2009. In the same year, President Obama appointed her to help lead the National STEM program. Forbes named her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world in 2014, and she has been on many boards of directors for companies and non-profits.

ALT Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and author of 21 New York Times best selling books. His novel The Crossover won the 2015 Newbery Medal for its distinguished contribution to children's literature. He also cofounded an organization called LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy organization that has, among other things, set up a library and health clinic in Ghana.

ALT Sheryl Swoopes was the first person to be drafted in the WNBA. She is a four time WNBA champion, three time Olympic gold medalist, and three time WNBA MVP. In 2005, she was one of the first high-profile athletes to publicly come out as gay, and was named an LGBT History Month Icon by the Equality Forum. A WNBA Hall of Famer, she now is a basketball coach.

ALT Clarence "Skip" Ellis was an American computer scientist famous for pioneering the Operational Transformation field and collaborative editing technology that is now used in programs like Google Docs. He was the first African American to receive a PhD in computer science, and later in life he won a Fulbright scholarship to teach and research in Ghana.