There are champions we all know, like writer and activist Maya Angelou, but there are dozens of leaders whose inspirational stories are widely unknown. In this second installment of Young Trailblazers, get familiar with even more Black heroes and overcomers.

Alice Allison Dunnigan -- Bessie Coleman -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Daisy Bates -- Eartha Kitt -- Fritz Pollard -- Guion Bluford Jr. -- Henrietta Lacks -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Joe Louis -- Kwame Ture -- Langston Hughes -- Maya Angelou -- Nance Legins-Costley -- Oscar Micheaux - P.B. S. Punchback -- Queen Latifah -- Rebecca Lee Crumpler -- Sidney Poitier -- Tarana Burke -- Unita Blackwell -- Victor Glover -- Wally Amos -- Xernona Clayton -- Yolanda King -- Zoe Saldana.