An inspirational story about a black person is Jay Z's story. He grew up in one of the roughest parts of New York City; he lived in rags and poverty. He took the negativity to inspire his success. Now, he's from rags to riches. He turned his life around to help inspire others.
In WWII, when all the men went to fight overseas, all of the women took over and did the manufacturing jobs and even took over playing baseball because there were so few men to do so
