Question: who is the most important person in black history?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr. No single African American in history is perhaps as famous as Martin Luther King Jr., otherwise known as MLK. ... 
Rosa Parks. ... 
Muhammad Ali. ... 
Frederick Douglass. ... 
W.E.B Du Bois. ... 
Jackie Robinson. ... 
Harriet Tubman. ... 
Sojourner Truth.