Jesse Owens shook racial stereotypes both with Nazis and segregationists in the USA at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Jesse Owens with Ralph Metcalfe at track and field tryouts at Randall’s Island Stadium in New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Owens performing the long jump at the Olympics. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
African-American Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Actress Octavia Spencer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Kendall Gill after the fight on April 30, 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ezekiel Kemboi at the World Championship Athletics 2009 in Berlin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: ‘The Last Moments of John Brown’, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hovenden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Daguerreotype of John Brown (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Patti LaBelle2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Tracy McGrady playing against the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association/ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: William Harvey Carney (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
 By James E Reed – Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
performing at UCLA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Langston Hughes Lincoln University 1928 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group, in front of his P-47 Thunderbolt in Sicily. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
from http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070207-F-9999W-001.jpg. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., an aviation pioneer, is one of the most famous Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
LIEUT. COL. BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR. – AIR FIGHTER – NARA – 535698 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Langston Hughes, 29 February 1936 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Vivian Green (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Naomi Campbell at the Cannes film festival (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Naomi Campbell at FashionWeekLive in San Francisco, March 15, 2007. Photo by Jesse Gross. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1530 – 1534 15th Street, N.W. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mary Jane Patterson’s home in Washington D. C.
Fats Waller, three-quarter length portrait, seated at piano, facing front / World Telegram & Sun photo by Alan Fisher. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Naturi Naughton at a performance of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker in December 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Racing driver Willy T. Ribbs, photographed at Sears Point International Raceway in 1984. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Willy T. Ribbs – 1991 CART Race – Laguna Seca – October 1991 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
