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A

• Aaron, Hank
• Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
• Abdul-Qaadir, Bilqis
• Abrams, Stacey
• Achieng, Rose
• Aderin-Pocock, Maggie
• Adewumi, Tanitoluwa
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
• Ailey, Alvin
• Aldridge, Ira
• Allen, Will
• Ali, Muhammad
• Aliu, Akim
• Anatsui, El
• Anderson, Marian
• Andrews, Troy “Trombone Shorty”
• Angelou, Maya
• Armstrong, Lil Hardin
• Armstrong, Louis
• Ashe, Arthur
• Austin, Elsie

B

• Badiel, Georgie
• Baker, Augusta
• Baker, Ella
• Baker, Josephine
• Baldwin, James
• Banneker, Benjamin
• Banning, James
• Barnes, Ernie
• Basquiat, Jean-Michel
• Bass, Charlotta
• Bates, Clayton “Pegleg”
• Bath, Patricia
• Battle, Robert
• Baylor, Elgin
• Beals, Melba Pattillo
• Bearden, Romare
• Belafonte, Harry
• Bethune, Mary McLeod
• Betsch, MaVynee
• Beyoncé
• Bibb, Henry
• Biles, Simone
• Bishop, Stephen
• Bonaly, Surya
• Bolt, Usain
• Boulogne, Joseph
• Bowser, Mary
• Boyce, Jo Ann Allen
• Bridges, Ruby
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Brown, Clara
• Brown, Henry “Box”
• Brown, James
• Brown, Linda
• Brown, Willie Mae
• Bryant, Kobe
• Bunche, Ralph J.

C

• Cameron, Anita
• Carney, William Harvey
• Carver, George Washington
• Ceesay, Isatou
• Charles, Ray
• Chisholm, Shirley
• Clark, Yvonne
• Clemente, Roberto
• Coachman, Alice
• Coleman, Bessie
• Collins, Janet
• Coltrane, Alice
• Coltrane, John
• Colvin, Claudette
• Copeland, Misty
• Cotten, Elizabeth
• Coverley, Louise Bennett
• Cox, Laverne
• Cox, MacNolia
• Crum, George
• Crumpler, Rebecca Lee
• Cruz, Celia
• Cummings, Elijah
• Curry, Stephen

D

• Darden, Christine
• Davis, Miles
• Delaney, Joe
• Desmond, Viola
• Doby, Larry
• Douglas, Gabby
• Douglass, Frederick
• Drake, David
• Drew, Charles
• Du Bois, W.E.B.
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence

E

• Ealey, Chuck
• Earley, Charity Adams
• Easly, Annie
• Edmonson, Emily
• Ellington, Duke
• Equiano, Olaudah
• Erivo, Cynthia
• Evers, Medgar

F

• Fairbanks, Mabel
• Fall, Tacko
• Farah, Mo
• Fields, Mary
• Fitzgerald, Ella
• Flack, Roberta
• Fletcher, George
• Fletcher, Tiera
• Fortune, Amos
• Francis-McBarnette, Yvette Fay
• Franklin, Aretha
• Freelon, Philip
• Freeman, Elizabeth “Mumbet”

G

• Garvey, Marcus
• Gates, Jr., Henry Louis
• Gauff, Coco
• Gibson, Althea
• Gibson, Josh
• Gillespie, Dizzy
• Gilmore, Georgia
• Gladden, Yolanda
• Glover, Savion
• Goode, Sarah E.
• Gorman, Amanda
• Granderson, Lily Ann
• Green, Elijah “Pumpsie”
• Green, Victor Hugo
• Groves, Junius G.
• Gurley, O.W.
• Guyton, Tyree

H

• Hamer, Fannie Lou
• Hamilton, Lewis
• Hamilton, Mary
• Hamilton, Virginia
• Harris, Kamala
• Hayes, Ira
• Height, Dorothy
• Hemings, James Madison
• Hendricks, Audrey Faye
• Hendricks, Jimmy
• Henry, Lenny
• Henson, Matthew
• Herc, DJ Kool
• Holiday, Billie
• Horton, George Moses
• Howard, Ayanna
• Hughes, Cathy
• Hughes, Langston
• Hunter, Clementine
• Hurston, Zora Neale

J

• Jackson, Augustus
• Jackson, Ketanji Brown
• Jackson, Mahalia
• Jackson, Mary
• Jackson, Shirley Ann
• James, LeBron
• Jemison, Mae
• Jennings, Elizabeth
• Johnson, Dwayne
• Johnson, Eunice W.
• Johnson, Jack
• Johnson, James Weldon
• Johnson, Katherine
• Johnson, Lonnie
• Johnson, Magic
• Johnson, Mamie “Peanut”
• Johnson, Willie
• Jones, Jennifer
• Joplin, Scott
• Jordan, Barbara
• Jordan, Michael
• Joyner, Florence Griffith
• Judge, Ona
• Just, Ernest Everett

K

• Kaepernick, Colin
• Kamkwamba, William
• Keckley, Elizabeth Hobbs
• Key, William “Doc”
• King, Jr., Martin Luther
• King, Coretta Scott
• Kirkwood, Kathlyn J.

L

• Lafayette, James
• Langley, Sharon
• Latifah, Queen
• Latimer, Lewis
• Law, Westley Wallace
• Lawrence, Jacob
• Lawson, Jerry
• Lee, Opal
• Lewis, Cudjo
• Lewis, Edna
• Lewis, William
• Liston, Melba
• Lemmons, Robert “Bob”
• Lewis, John
• L’Ouverture, Toussaint
• Louis, Joe
• Love, Nat
• Loving, Richard & Mildred
• Lowe, Ann Cole
• Lowe, Chaunté
• Lowery, Lynda Blackmon
• Luper, Clara
• Lyle, Marcenia (Toni Stone)
• Lynch, John Roy

M

• McDaniels, Darryl “DMC”
• McNair, Ronald
• Maathi, Wangari
• Makeba, Miriam
• Malone, Annie
• Mandela, Nelson
• Manley, Effa
• Marley, Bob
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Mason, Biddy
• Matzeliger, Jan
• Mays, Willie
• Melvin, Leland
• Michaux, Lewis
• Miller, Norma
• Mills, Florence
• Mitchell, Leona
• Montague, Raye
• Moore, Leroy
• Moore, Maya
• Morgan, Garrett
• Morris, Olive
• Morrison, Toni
• Morton, Jelly Roll
• Murphy, Isaac
• Murray, Pauli

N

• Nakate, Vanessa
• Nash, Diane
• Nelson, Prince Rogers
• Nforba, Tantoh
• Nichols, Nichelle
• Nixon, E.D.
• Nkrumah, Kwame
• Noah, Trevor

O

• O’Neal, Frederick
• O’Neal, Shaquille
• O’Neil, Buck
• O’Ree, Willie
• Obama, Barack
• Obama, Michelle
• Ormes, Jackie
• Osaka, Naomi
• Owens, Biddy
• Owens, Jesse

P

• Paige, Satchel
• Parker, Charles S.
• Parker, Charlie
• Parker, John P.
• Parks, Gordon
• Parks, Rosa
• Patterson, Tia
• Paul, Chris
• Payne, Ethel L.
• Pelé
• Peterson, Oscar
• Pickett, Bill
• Pierce, Chester
• Pierce, Elijah
• Pieterson, Hector
• Pinkney, Jerry
• Pippin, Horace
• Powell, Colin
• Powell, William
• Powers, Harriet
• Price, Florence Beatrice “Bea”
• Price, Leontyne
• Pryce, Shelly Ann Fraser

R

• Ra, Le Sony’r (Sun Ra)
• Rashford, Marcus
• Rector, Sarah
• Reese, Rev. F.D.
• Reeves, Bass
• Reeves, Mae
• Ringgold, Faith
• Roberts, Sarah
• Robeson, Paul
• Robinson, Bill (Bojangles)
• Robinson, Jackie
• Rollins, Sonny
• Roundtree, Dovey Johnson
• Rudolph, Wilma
• RuPaul
• Rustin, Bayard

S

• Schomburg, Arturo
• Scott, George
• Scott, Hazel
• Scott, Wendell
• Sengstacke, Robert
• Shabazz, Betty
• Shakur, Tupac
• Sifford, Charlie
• Simone, Nina
• Smalls, Robert
• Smith, Bessie
• Smith, Tommie
• Still, William
• Stringfield, Bessie
• Subban, P.K.

T

• Taylor, Jr., Hosea Missouri
• Taylor, Major
• Taylor, Susie King
• Terrell, Mary Church
• Tharpe, Rosetta
• Thomas, Alma
• Thomas, Vivian
• Thurman, Howard
• Till, Emmett
• Till-Mobley, Mamie
• Tindley, Charles Albert
• Traylor, Bill
• Truth, Sojourner
• Tubman, Harriet
• Tuck, Justin
• Turner, Charles Henry
• Turner, Nat
• Tutu, Desmond
• Tyson, Cicely
• Tyson, Neil Degrasse

V

• VanDerZee, James
• Vaughn, Dorothy

W

• Walker, Dabney
• Walker, Lucy Ann
• Walker, Mary
• Walker, Sarah Breedlove
• Wallace, Christopher (Biggie Smalls)
• Waring, Laura Wheeler
• Warnock, Raphael
• Washington, Booker T.
• Waters, Muddy
• Webb, Chick
• Wells-Barnette, Ida B.
• Wheatley, Phillis
• White, Willye
• Wiggins, Thomas
• Wilkinson, Raven
• Williams, Daniel Hale
• Williams, James B.
• Williams, Mary Lou
• Williams, Molly
• Williams, Paul R.
• Williams, Serena
• Williams, Venus
• Wilson, August
• Wilson, Teddy
• Winfrey, Oprah
• Winkfield, Jimmy
• Wright, Richard
• Wonder, Stevie
• Woods, Granville T.
• Woodson, Carter G.

X

• X, Malcolm

Y

• Yates, Alton
• Yeboah, Emmanuel Ofosu
• York

Z

• Zendaya