Caterina Jarboro First Black prima donna of an United States opera company
Geroge H. White Last former slave to sit in the House of Representative
Nannie Helen Burroughs African-American educators
Ambrose Caliver Senior Specialist in the Education of Negroes
Arna Wendell Bontemps Writer
Elmer Simms Campbell Cartoonist
James Amos Porter Artist and author
Henry Blair Inventor
Shirley Graham Writer
Anna Ella Carroll Writer, civil-war strategist
Prudence Crandall Pioneer Civil-Rights Educator
The Pittsburgh Courier Early African American newspaper
Anna Maria Weems Underground Railroad Slave
John James Neimore Publisher
Annie Onieta Plummer The Dictionary Lady