Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder/publisher

            Chicago Defender

Richard Allen, founder/first bishop AME Church

James Herbert "Euble" Blake, composer/pianist

William "Count" Basie, orchestra leader/composer

Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California

Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole, singer

W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author/historian

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, orchestra

            leader/composer

Medgar Wiley Evers, civil rights leader

James Forten, abolitionist/manufacturer

Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist

Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac

Alex Haley, author

William C. Handy, composer

Augustus F. Hawkins, U.S. Congressman California

Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/composer

Matthew Henson, explorer

Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director NAACP

Daniel "Chappie" James, general U.S. Air Force

John H. Johnson, publisher EBONY and JET

Thurgood Marshall, associate justice

            U.S. Supreme Court

Benjamin Mays, educator/former president

            Atlanta University

Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympic champion

Harold G. Moss, former mayor Tacoma, Washington

A. Philip Randolph, founder/first president

            International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porto-,

Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman New York

Norman B. Rice, mayor Seattle, Washington

Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy boxing champion

Carl B. Stokes, U.S. Congressman Ohio

Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman Ohio

Booker T. Washington, educator/founder

            Tuskegee Institute

Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams, actor/comedian

Harry A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian

Andrew Young, former mayor Atlanta, Georgia

Whitney M. Young, former director National

Urban League