(…but probably don’t because the only one that’s mentioned with any degree of regularity during Black History Month is Harriett Tubman.)

1. Shirley Chisholm
2. Barbara Jordan
3. Angela Davis
4. Edmonia Lewis
5. Milla Granson
6. Fanny Lou Hamer
7. Althea Gibson
8. Dorothy Dandridge
9. Marian Anderson
10. Zora Neale Hurston