Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer Malcolm X : Spark-Light Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary Barack H. Obama, Jr. : Holding on to Hope Timeline