• "What did Barbara Jordan do for us?"
• "I need a report on Diana Ross"
• "Something on Frederick Douglass"
• "Do you have information on Malcolm X?"

These are four actual questions from among the many we received in the past week! Yes, it is hard to find reliable information about African American visionaries and pioneers.

Here are 26 twentieth century personalities responsible for moving the American Dream forward you need to know about (in random order):

1. Langston Hughes
2. Marian Anderson
3. Thomas Bradley
4. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
5. Coretta Scott King
6. Frederick Douglass
7. Dr. Charles Drew
8. Sammy Davis Jr.
9. Shirley Chisholm
10. Jesse Owens
11. James Meredith
12. Ella Fitzgerald
13. William H. Hastie
14. Richard Wright
15. Malcolm X
16. Diana Ross
17. Charles H. Houston
18. A. Philip Randolph
19. Andrew Young
20. Barbara Jordan
21. Ronald Dellums
22. Bo Diddley
23. Rosa Parks
24. Duke Ellington
25. Lena Horne
26. Joe Louis

If you'd like to learn more about these achievers, (and you've signed up for our free black history biographies via email...and have confirmed your subscription), then you'll be among the first to be able to benefit from an exciting new project profiling these African American legends coming soon.