This document lists 10 influential black figures from the 16th to 20th centuries who impacted the Atlantic slave trade and civil rights movement in the United States. It includes dates for slave rebellions led by Nat Turner and the Stono Rebellion, as well as lifetimes of abolitionists Fredrick Douglas and Harriet Tubman, and civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Jackie Robinson who broke the color barrier in baseball.