Since his arrival into the baseball scene in 1996, Derek Jeter has not only turned himself into a baseball icon but a symbol of athletic perfection as well. Spending his entire 20-year career with the New York Yankees, he helped them win 7 pennants and 5 World Series, while also making the All-Star team nearly every year.
Elizabeth Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 â April 30, 1926) was the first female African American pilot ever to hold an international pilot license. She fought discrimination to follow her dream of becoming a pilot. 1 Early Life.
8. This person was appointed by President George Washington to help survey the land that would become Washington, D.C. 9.This person was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. 10. This person wrote proudly of black people in books, poems, and plays. Louis Armstrong Benjamin Banneker Bessie Coleman Ida Wells-Barnett Joe Louis