- Martin Luther King Jr., Activism
- Frederick Douglas, Activism
- Julius Chambers, Activism
- W.E.B. Dubois, Activism
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Activism
- Thurgood Marshall, Government/Politics
- Edward Brooke, Government/Politics
- Chaka Fattah, Government/Politics
- John Hope Franklin, Education/Scholarship
- Frederick D. Patterson, Education/Scholarship
- Cornel West, Education/Scholarship
- Duke Ellington, Entertainment
- Omari Hardwick, Entertainment
- Hill Harper, Entertainment
- Roscoe Cartwright, Military
- LaSalle Leffall, STEM
- Garrett Morgan, STEM
- Fritz Pollard, Sports