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Claudette Colvin. Some people know her but they rarely talk about her in school. They mainly talk about Rosa Parks although Claudette did the same thing Rosa did before her.

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Ota Benga,is a boy who wassold to slavery because his tribe was killed off and he was the only one left.By ship they took him to Bronx zoo and they put him with the monkeys.White folks made fun of badly and laughed at him.Racist white folk from everywhere came to see him in his exhibit.Sense he was only 12 and did not speak there language he didn't know what the cruel people were saying.

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I'm not sure tbh.

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We should notice Carter G. Woodson. He is the one who created black history month. He is known as the father of black history.

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In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States. A newspaper article reported that a black man named Dick Rowland attempted to rape a white woman. They refused to wait out the investigation. The whole block went up in flames and 300 people died, 800 injured.

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Ethel Waters was the first black woman to have her own tv show and nominated for the first emmy

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In school we never learned about her so I honestly don't know. Also you don't really talk or hear about her.

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Annie Easley was one of four African Americans of about 2500 employees that worked  as a mathematician and computer engineer at the NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory.

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The first black woman army nurse. Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse. She tended to an all Black army regiment named the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later redesignated the 33rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment, where her husband served, for four years during the Civil War.

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Benjamin was a mathematician and Astronomer. He wrote almanacs and surveyed Washington D.C.

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Fannie Lou Hamer.  A voting rights advocate, Fannie Lou Hamer was fired from her job for trying to register to vote and was nearly beaten to death by police. This did not stop her, however, from helping to organize Mississippi’s Freedom Summer. She also became vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that attended the 1964 Democratic Convention in an attempt to challenge the all-white, anti-Civil Rights official delegation. Her speech to the credentials committee was carried to many parts of the country and led to more widespread support for the cause.

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Ruby Bridges! It's not recognition that she lacks, but people don't typically talk about how many waves she made when it comes to

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Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.