Thurgood Marshall male, deceased

Thurgood Marshall was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to becoming a...

Toni Morrison female (Princeton, nj, United States)

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...

Debbie Allen female

Debbie Allen (born Deborrah Kaye Allen on January 16, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor, choreographer, film director, television...

Ossie Davis male, deceased

Ossie Davis (December 18 1917 - February 4 2005) was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist.

Stokely Carmichael male, deceased

Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist...

Phylicia Rashād female

Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen on June 19, 1948 to Andrew Arthur Allen and Vivian Ayers in Harris County, TX) is a black activist and T...

Roberta Flack female

Roberta Flack (born February 10 1939 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American singer, notable in the areas of jazz, soul, and folk. Flack is...

Andrew Young male

Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States'...

Douglas Wilder male

Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American politician. He was the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S....

Edward Brooke male

Edward William Brooke III is an American politician and was the first Black American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate when...