Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1918. Deutsch: Der Soziologe William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), Mitbegründer der afroamerikanischen Bürgerrechtsorganisation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), aufgenommen 1918 von C.M. Battey (1873–1927). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Alpha Phi Alpha Board members at Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. for the centennial banquet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at its first General Convention, held in 1908 at Howard University. Français : La Fraternité Alpha Phi Alpha à sa Première Convention Générale, tenue en 1908, à Howard University. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: BARRY SANDERS AT AN AUTOGRAPH SHOW IN 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Michael Jackson dancing with the living dead. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The platinum record for Michael Jackson’s Thriller album on display at the Hard Rock Café, Hollywood in Universal City, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she unwillingly began. National Archives record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93). Source: Ebony Magazine Ελληνικά: Φωτογραφία της Rosa Parks με τον Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (περ. 1955.) Español: Fotografía de Rosa Parks con Martin Luther King jr. (aprox. 1955). Français : Photographie Rosa Parks (ca. 1955) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The bus on which Rosa Parks was arrested triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The star of Michael Jackson on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood Deutsch: Der Stern von Michael Jackson auf dem Walk of Fame in Hollywood (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Michael Jackson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, ca. September 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Portrait of Richard Wright (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Permanent wave machine invented in 1928 by Marjorie Joyner – The first African American woman to receive a patent (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Patent image sheet 2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Patent image sheet 3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)