- male, deceased (1950)
- Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895-April 22, 1950) was a black lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director...
- male, deceased (1969)
- Joshua Daniel White, best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. Today, he...
- male, deceased (1860)
- Thomas Dartmouth (T.D.) "Daddy" Rice, was a comedian in the blackface form of comedy of the 19th century. Because he developed an immediately...
- male, deceased (1982)
- DeFord Bailey (December 14, 1899 - July 2, 1982) was an early country music star and the first African American performer on the Grand Ole Opry....
- male, deceased (2004)
- Herbert Hill (born January 24 1924, died August 15 2004) was the labor director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
- male, 71 years old
- Johnny Rebel is the pseudonym of Cajun/country musician Clifford Joseph "Pee Wee" Trahan (born 1938). Trahan has used this pseudonym most notably...
- male, 74 years old
- Robert Parris Moses (born Harlem, New York, January 23, 1935, usually known as Bob Moses) is an American Harvard-trained educator who joined the...
- male, deceased (1998)
- Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Born in Detroit, Diggs attended the University of Michigan and Fisk...
- female, deceased (2005)
- MaVynee Betsch was an environmentalist and an activist. She was better known as The Beach Lady, because she spent the better part of her adult life...
- male, 77 years old
- Henry E. Frye is an American judge and politician who concluded his public-service career as the first African-American chief justice of the North...
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