This 25-minute video features nine notable black Americans, including:

Alfred L. Cralle ice cream scoop inventor https://youtu.be/r_1jgDqEbNE

Jan Matzeliger shoe lasting machine inventor https://youtu.be/uCfQMx0cHOo

Garrett Morgan traffic light inventor and businessman https://youtu.be/MBAJmkJh218

Dr. Mae Jemison astronaut and physician https://youtu.be/0w21h00Mm8E

Gwendolyn Brooks Pulitzer Prize-winning poet https://youtu.be/P3nmxloOsHM

George Washington Carver inventor https://youtu.be/zjeWIsaB9Fc

Frederick Douglass social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman https://youtu.be/UapCxnaOLus

Hank Aaron home run record legend https://youtu.be/IwontxVdGMY

Matthew Henson explorer North Pole https://youtu.be/atJrxxV4azg