From: Everywhere, Occupation: All, Field: All, Politics: All, Gender: All, Genre: All, Instrument: All, Religion: All, Award: Spingarn Medal, Star sign: All ▸ 28 people found
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor
Jesse Jackson
American Baptist minister, activist, civil rights leader, politician, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer
Colin Powell
American general and diplomat
Jackie Robinson
American baseball player
John Lewis
American politician and civil rights leader
Harry Belafonte
American musician and actor
Bill Cosby
American actor and comedian
Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician; 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Leontyne Price
American soprano
Hank Aaron
American baseball player
Carter Godwin Woodson
African-American historian, writer, and journalist
Lena Horne
American singer, actress, dancer and activist
Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist
Gordon Parks
American photographer, musician, writer and film director
John Conyers
American politician
Jessye Norman
American opera singer
Charles Chesnutt
Novelist, short story writer, essayist, activist
Charles Hamilton Houston
American lawyer
Charles Young
African-American graduate of West Point
Cicely Tyson
American actress
Julian Bond
American social activist
Harry T. Moore
American teacher
John Hope Franklin
American historian
John H. Johnson
American businessman and publisher
Charles Sidney Gilpin
American actor
Damon Keith
American judge
Barbara Jordan
American politician