Fortunately, Black History Month basically assures us that young Americans will be taught about the immortals of African-American achievement. The contributions by Americans with the names Frederick Douglass, W.E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King Jr. should be known to all teachers and students of American history. Albeit, the cream rises to the top of any race or generation and should be recognized, yet the common man, so often overlooked or forgotten in the volumes of history, at least deserves a footnote in the making of America and its