John Marrant: 1st Great Awakening: 1st black American to successfully evangelize Native-Americans, Had one of the best selling narratives of the day.

Harry Hosier: Black preacher of the 2nd great awakening. Giving Indiana the Hosier nickname.

These two people are useful to show that blacks preached to a white congregation all the way back to the beginnings of America which sounds unheard of. you would assume they were all just slaves. But that's because you only get the southern history in detail in high school history books. Not the northern.

Peter Salem: The hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)

Salem Poor: Also a hero in the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), the general gave him several metals.

Lemuel Haynes: A minuteman, First black to get a degree in higher education. The first credentialed African-American clergyman in the United States. First to have sermon published. Preached in churches filled will all races (the 1750s)

How many people would have thought that in the 1750s black people were getting a higher education? I would assume, not many.

Phillis Wheatley: First black poet. She was so good, George Washington brought her to the army to read poetry to the officers.

So all the way back then, there were black women who could read and write and were free, and respected by the president and the army?

James Armistead: First Double-spy in American history. Key in ending the revolutionary war early.

This man saved countless lives for his heroic actions. And the US military trusted him with this responsibility. This doesn't sound like the US we were taught in school.

Richard Allen: Soldier in the American Revolution, Founder of the first black denomination in America, and a great narrative sold.

Benjamin Banneker: Thomas Jefferson contacted him to be the surveyor for the land which is now Washington DC.

This was a quick rundown of very early American history and a part of the founding of America but it's never talked about because of Woodrow Wilson who removed much of this from the history books which did have this information in it originally.