Booker Taliaferro Washington

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey-Douglass

Araminta Ross

George Washington Carver

Annie Minerva Malone-Turnbo

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Madam C.J. Walker

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

William Howard Day

Henry Highland Garnet

Josiah Henson

Mary Ann Shadd

Lewis Hayden

Solomon Northup

Claudette Colvin

Thurgood Marshall

Jessie Owens

Bessie Coleman

Jimi Hendrex

James McCune Smith