( 1931 – 2006 )
Albert E. Meyzeek
Alberta Odell Jones
Alice Dunnigan
Anna Mac Clarke
Audrey Louise Ross Grevious
Benjamin F. Shobe
Bertha Whedbee
Carter G. Woodson
Charles Anderson, Jr.
Charles Henry Parrish, Sr.
Charles Young
Effie Waller Smith
Eleanor Young Love
Ella Baker
Emma Lewis Minnis
Fannie Lou Hamer
Frank L. Stanley
Garrett Augustus Morgan
Georgia Davis Powers
Grace Marilynn James
Harvey C. Russell, Sr
Helen Humes
Helen LaFrance Orr
I. Willis Cole
Isaac Murphy
James Bond
James Winkfield
Jane Roberta Summers
John H. Smiley
Jonah Jones
Joseph McMillan
Lionel Hampton
Louis Coleman
Lyman T. Johnson
Mae Street Kidd
Marilyn Yarbrough Ainsworth
Mary Ann Fisher
Mary Cunningham Smith
Mary E. Merritt
Mary Ellen Britton
Mary Virginia Cook-Parrish
Moneta J. Sleet
Muhammad Ali
Murray Atkins Walls
Nancy Green
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Nellie Conley
Robert Todd Duncan
Ruby Wilkins Doyle
Sara Martin
Sterling Orlando Neal
Thomas Fountain Blue
Willa Brown Chappell
William Benjamin Ray
William Sheppard
William Simmons
William Summers
Woodford Roy Porter
