Name some african americans that influenced all of american society?

Sheesh! You can't be for real! Well, here's just a few off the top of my head:





Frederick Douglass (did you know he was, among other things, the first African-American nominated for the position of Vice President?)


Martin Luther King, Jr.


Thurgood Marshall


George Washington Carver


Malcolm X


Robert L. Johnson


Oprah Winfrey


Barack Obama


Robert Johnson


Miles Davis


Jimi Hendrix


Josephine Baker


Michael Jordan


Josiah Henson


Alex Haley


Bill Cosby


Kunta Kinte


Harriet Tubman


Jesse Jackson


Spike Lee


...





Too, too many to list here.











BTW: I'm a white fellow, originally from the South.

Name some african americans that influenced all of american society?
Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Colin Powell, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr, Doris Miller,
Reply:Oprah Winfrey and Woopie Goldberg .


Malcom X and Martin Luther King.


Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix.


Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross and many other singers and performers.


And of course Michael Jackson.


And Rosa Parks
Reply:Ida B. Wells -- stopped lynching
Reply:Oprah


Obama


Will Smith


Tyra Banks


Rosa Parks (I guess..)


Jesse Jackson


MLK
Reply:Martin Luther King