'In celebration of Black History Month, BCES invites students to research a famous Black American and create a poster highlighting that person’s impact. Families are encouraged to help students select a person, research key facts, and prepare the poster. The posters are due before Monday, February 23, 2026.
Thank you for supporting your child and partnering with BCES to celebrate Black history and excellence.'

100 Black History Figures for Presentation Boards
Civil Rights & Social Justice (1–25)

1. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Rosa Parks
3. Harriet Tubman
4. Frederick Douglass
5. Malcolm X
6. Thurgood Marshall
7. John Lewis
8. Ella Baker
9. Bayard Rustin
10. Fannie Lou Hamer
11. A. Philip Randolph
12. Medgar Evers
13. Ida B. Wells
14. Sojourner Truth
15. James Baldwin
16. Stokely Carmichael
17. Angela Davis
18. Cesar Chavez
19. Pauli Murray
20. Roy Wilkins
21. Daisy Bates
22. Claudette Colvin
23. Coretta Scott King
24. Walter Reuther
25. Julian Bond

1. Katherine Johnson
2. Mae Jemison
3. George Washington Carver
4. Benjamin Banneker
5. Charles Drew
6. Lonnie Johnson
7. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
8. Mark Dean
9. Patricia Bath
10. Garrett Morgan
11. Annie Easley
12. Neil deGrasse Tyson
13. Shirley Jackson
14. Daniel Hale Williams
15. Vivien Thomas
16. Herman Branson
17. James West
18. Marie Daly
19. Percy Julian
20. Gladys West

1. Mary McLeod Bethune
2. Booker T. Washington
3. W.E.B. Du Bois
4. Maya Angelou
5. Langston Hughes
6. Zora Neale Hurston
7. James Weldon Johnson
8. Carter G. Woodson
9. Octavia Butler
10. Nikki Giovanni
11. Countee Cullen
12. Toni Morrison
13. Alex Haley
14. Paul Laurence Dunbar
15. bell hooks
16. Richard Wright
17. Gwendolyn Brooks
18. Jean Toomer
19. Benjamin Mays
20. Septima Clark

1. Louis Armstrong
2. Duke Ellington
3. Aretha Franklin
4. Ella Fitzgerald
5. James Brown
6. Nina Simone
7. Jacob Lawrence
8. Romare Bearden
9. Gordon Parks
10. Spike Lee
11. Kara Walker
12. Jean-Michel Basquiat
13. Alvin Ailey
14. Quincy Jones
15. Billie Holiday
16. Hattie McDaniel
17. Sidney Poitier
18. Oprah Winfrey
19. Tyler Perry
20. Paul Robeson

1. Jackie Robinson
2. Jesse Owens
3. Wilma Rudolph
4. Muhammad Ali
5. Serena Williams
6. Simone Biles
7. Michael Jordan
8. LeBron James
9. Barack Obama
10. Shirley Chisholm
11. Kamala Harris
12. Colin Powell
13. Condoleezza Rice
14. Mae Jemison
15. Hank Aaron