Carol L. Adams
Educator & Government Administrator

Victoria Gray Adams
Civil Rights Activist

Bobby Austin
Foundation Executive

Rev. Harold Bailey
Founder, Probation Challenge

C. Vincent Bakeman
Educator & Human Services Provider

Irma Josephine Barber
Seamstress

Thomas C. Barnwell, Jr.
Entrepreneur

MaVynne ‘Beach Lady’ Betsch
Environmental Actvist

Rev. James Bevel
Minister and Activist

Amy Tate Billingsley
Political Consultant

Leonard Blackshear
President, Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation

Gloria Blackwell (Rackley)
Educator & Civil Rights Activist

Julian Bond
Civil Rights Activist & Politician

Ethel Bradley
Former Los Angeles First Lady

James Pleasant Breeden
Former Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader & Educator

Amazon Brooks
Domestic

Jacqueline Finney Brown
Therapist & Educational Administrator

Dr. Joyce F. Brown
Clinical Psychologist, Educator & Civic Leader

Les Brown
Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneur & Author

Alma Brown
Banking Executive

Fannie Brown
Non-Profit Executive

Clayola Brown
Union & Civil Rights Leader

Howard Brown, Jr.
Corporate CEO

John Hope Bryant
Nonprofit Chief Executive, Author & Entrepreneur

Gloria Burgess
Organization Founder, Educator & Poet

Hugh C. Burroughs
Foundation Executive

Arthur Burton, Sr.
Pullman Porter

John Bynoe
Attorney & Civil Rights Worker

Peggy Cooper Cafritz
Arts School Founder & Philanthropist

Alfred E. Cain
Writer & Choral Director

James Cameron
Curator, Author & Civil Rights Activist

Emory Shaw Campbell
Entrepreneur

Donald Carpenter
Educator & Social Worker

Walter C. Carrington
Ambassador, Lawyer & College Professor

Iva Carruthers
Sociologist and Activist

Michael Carter
Nonprofit Chief Executive & Educator

Dr. John L. Cashin
Dentist & Political Activist

Benjamin Chavis, Jr.
CEO, Hip-Hop Summit Action Network

Mary Cherry
Candy Maker Employee

Eileen Tate Cline
Music Educator & Administrator

Dale Head Clinton
Community Resource Specialist

Christopher Cloud
CEO, AMISTAD America

Sanford Cloud
Attorney & Foundation Executive

William T. Coleman
Corporate Lawyer

James W. Compton
Urban League Executive

Ann Cooper
Civic Activist

Maudine Cooper
Urban League Executive

Lilliette Council
Volunteer

Forrest C. Crawford
Civic Leader & Educator

Kenneth Crooks
Urban League Executive

Mildred Cruzat
Dance Instructor

Betty Currie
Presidential Secretary

Herbert Daughtry
Minister & Activist

Angela Davis
Activist & Educator

Myrtle Reid Davis
City Council Member & Pharmacist

Carrie Davis
Community Activist

Lula Cole Dawson
Government Consultant

Horace Dawson, Jr.
Ambassador & Educator

Leola “Roscoe” Dellums
Civic Leader

Lillian Dickerson
Civic Activist

Aaron Lloyd Dixon
Political Activist & Organization Founder

Hattie B. Dorsey
Retired Community Economic Practitioner

Thomas W. Dortch
Corporate Chief Executive & Community Leader

Patricia Stephens Due
Civil Rights Activist

Clinton E. Dye
Social Worker

Ramona Edelin
Educator & Community Leader

Marian Wright Edelman
Foundation Executive

Willis Edwards
NAACP Executive & Producer

Ollie Ellison
Foreign Service Officer

David Steele Ewing
Attorney

Dorothy Jenkins Fields
Archivist & Historian

Rev. Dr. Leon Finney
Community Redeveloper & Minister

Bernyce Fletcher
White House Office Manager

William Gerald Fletcher, Jr.
President, TransAfrica Forum

Lula M. Ford
Former Educator & Illinois Commerce Commissioner

James Forman
Social Activist & SNCC Organizer

Maureen Forte
Teacher & Talk Show Host

Eugenia Fortes
Civil Rights Activist

Betty Hager Francis
Public Works & Transportation Director

Junius Gaten
Social Activist

Carver Gayton
Museum Executive Director & Educator

Thelma Gibson
Nurse & Former City Commissioner

James H. Gilliam, Sr.
Social Worker

Robert Goodwin
Foundation Executive

Naomi Gray
Health & Family Planning Consultant

Ernest Green
Investment Banker & Civic Leader

Dick Gregory
Comedian & Social Activist

Audrey Grevious
Educator & Civil Rights Activist

Jacquelyne D. Grimshaw
Public Policy Advocate

Thelma Jarmon Groomes
Educator

Sandra Grymes
Foundation Executive

Lawrence Guyot
Author & Civil Rights Activist

Annie Rosetta Hall
Educator

Evangeline Hall
Civil Rights Activist

Anthony W. Hall, Jr.
Attorney

Vicki Hallman
Parole Board Director

Vincent G. Harding
Theologian & Author

Nathan Hare
Sociologist & Psychotherapist

Julia Hare
Motivational Speaker & Author

Jannette Hoston Harris
City Historian

Dorothy Penman Harrison
Educator & Former Sorority President

Dorothy Height
Women's Leader & Social Activist

Gloria Owens Hemphill
Educator & Foundation Executive

Joe Hendricks
Civil Rights Activist

Maycie Herrington
Historical Conservator

Phyllis Hicks
Retired Marketing Director

Calvin Hicks
Journalist, Activist & Educator

Ora Higgins
Personnel Manager

Robert Hill
Sociologist

Paul Hill
Association Executive

Patricia L. Hill
Police Officer & Community Activist

Azira Gonzalez Hill
Civil Rights Activist & Registered Nurse

Rev. Benjamin Hooks
Community & Civic Leader

Emma E. Houston
Nonprofit Executive

Bernice Hutcherson
Social Worker, Civic Activist & Educator

James L. Jackson
Former Soldier & Community Activist

Philip Jackson
Educator & Children’s Advocate

Alexine Jackson
Civic Volunteer

Dorothy O. Jackson
Civic Activist & Deputy Mayor

Constance Jackson
Minister & Former City Commissioner

Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
Civil Rights Leader & Minister

Valerie Bowman Jarrett
Lawyer, Business & Civic Leader

Harriett Jenkins
Federal Executive

John J. Johnson
NAACP Chief Exective of Operations

Colonel Stone Johnson
Retired Rail Road Worker & Civil Rights Activist

Hubie Jones
Children's Advocate & Social Worker

Shirley Jones
Educator

Katherine Butler Jones
Educator, Civil Rights Activist & Historian

Ingrid Saunders Jones
Corporate Executive & Foundation Chairperson

Charles Jordan
Chairman, Conservation Fund

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Lawyer & Civic Leader

James Alfred Joseph
Former U.S. Ambassador

Sokoni Karanja
Founder, Center for New Horizons

Janis Kearney
Presidential Diarist & Journalist

Alice Key
Journalist, Community Leader & Former Dancer

Reed Kimbrough
Newspaper Community Relations Director

Loann Honesty King
Program Administrator & Educator

Dorie Ladner
Clinical Social Worker & Civil Rights Activist

Carlotta Walls LaNier
Civil Rights Pioneer

William Layton
Historian

J.W. Lemon
Community Activist

Alvin Little
Civic Leader

Matthew Little
Civic Leader

Evelyn Gibson Lowery
Civil Rights Activist

Rev. Joseph Lowery
SCLC Founder

C. Payne Lucas
International Development Consultant

Freddie Hill Lucas
Consultant

William Lucy
Union Leader & Activist

Barbara Lumpkin
Banker & Civil Servant

Frank Lumpkin
Union Leader

John Mack
Civic Leader

Leatrice Branch Madison
Community Activist

Carmel Carrington Marr
Advisor to the United Nations

Warren Marr II
Archive Founder & Civic Leader

Joe Marshall
Youth Advocate

Clara Sylvia Cooke Martin
Genealogist, Historian & H.R. Specialist

Clyde Martin
Businessman & Civic Leader

Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.
Physician & Social Activist

Cora Masters Barry
Former First Lady of the City of Washington, D.C.

John A. Matthews
Community Activist

Rev. H.K. Matthews
Minister & Civil Rights Leader

Fred Matthews III
YMCA Executive

Ernest S. McBride
Community Leader

Jewell Jackson McCabe
Organization Founder

Diane McCoy-Lee
Activist & Social Service Administrator

Willie L. McCray
Civil Rights Organizer

Marion McElroy
Diversity Specialist

Dorothy Layne McIntyre
Aviator

Rufus McKinney
Lawyer & Executive

Barbara A. McKinzie
CPA & International AKA Sorority President

Quentin Mease
YMCA Executive & Civic Leader

Harriet Michel
Foundation Executive

Art Minson
Community Leader

Steven Minter
Former foundation executive

Nannette Kindle Mitchell
County Official

Littleton Mitchell
Tuskegee Airman & NAACP Chapter President

Peggy A. Montes
Museum Founder & Educator

Rev. Jerry Moore
Retired Minister & Civic Leader

John E. Moore, Sr.
Civic Leader

Dan Moore, Sr.
Museum Founder

Pauline Cauthone Morton
Home Economist & Civic Leader

A. Paul Moss
YMCA Executive

Laura W. Murphy
ACLU Executive

Bob Nash
Bank Executive & Civic Leader

Prexy Nesbitt
Activist & Consultant

Constance Berry Newman
Assistant Secretary of State

Hazel Rollins O'Leary
Former U.S. Sec. of Energy

Elisabeth Omilami
Humanitarian & Actress

Les Outerbridge
Firefighter & Union Activist

Hellen O’Neal-McCray
Civil Rights Volunteer

Edward L. Palmer
Educator & Activist

Jorja English Palmer
Community Activist

Lutrelle F. Palmer
Community Activist & Journalist

Bernard Parks
Los Angeles City Councilman

Juanita Passmore
Community Philanthropist

Porter Peeples
Civil Servant

Audrey Peeples
Women's Advocate & Nonprofit Executive

Aurie Pennick
Field Foundation Executive Director

June Martin Perry
Social Worker & Nonprofit Executive

Marvin Early Perry
Business Executive

Enid Pinkney
Community Activist

Alma Powell
Foundation Chairperson & Author

Floyd Powell
Police Chief

Hugh Price
Former Urban League CEO

Mahlon Puryear
Urban League Executive

Imam Mujahid Ramadan
Religious Leader & Activist

Marlene Owens Rankin
Social Worker & Foundation Executive

Fred Rice, Jr.
Chicago Police Department

Tim Richardson
Civic Leader

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers, III
Youth Organizer

Allene Roberts
Business Executive & Consultant

Dr. Terrence James Roberts
Little Rock Nine Member & Psychologist

Renault Robinson
Community Activist

Amelia Boynton Robinson
Educator & Civil Rights Pioneer

Kenneth Rodgers
Youth Advocate

Jamala Rogers
Community Activist & Newspaper Columnist

Wilhelmina Rolark
President, United Black Fund

Rev. Joseph Metz Rollins
Retired Minister & Civil Rights Activist

Dorothy Walker Runner
Civic Volunteer

Sidney L. Rushing
Bank Officer and Civic Administrator

Howard Saffold
Criminal Justice Activist

Ruby Sales
Social Activist

Eugene Sawyer
Former Chicago Mayor & Alderman

LaVerne Kenon Sci
Non-Profit Manager

Mary Shy Scott
Association Chief Executive

Michael Scott, Sr.
Public Servant & Executive

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
Policy Scholar

Ilyasah Shabazz
Educator & Author

Rev. Al Sharpton
Minister & Activist

Hilary O. Shelton
Civic Leader

Boots Shepard
Railroad Chef

Vera Shorter
Community Activist & Author

Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Minister & Civil Rights Leader

Rodney Slater
Lawyer & Government Official

Rev. Gregory Robeson Smith
Minister & Activist

Frank Smith, Jr.
Founder, African American Civil War Memorial

Hilbert Dennis Stanley
Association Executive

Robert Stanton
Conservation Consultant & Educator

Charles Stewart
Electrician

Imagene Bigham Stewart
Minister & Social Activist

Reverend Charles Stith
Director of the African Presidential Archives

Ozell Sutton
Civil Rights & Community Leader

Harry Sykes
Community Leader

Carrie Tankard
Community Activist

Rev. Harry C. Tartt
Chaplain, Actor & High School Teacher

Hannah Thomas
Civic Activist

Rev. Raleigh Trammell
Minister & Activist

Sterling Tucker
Politician & Activist

Charles “Chuck” Turner
Boston City Councilor

Carole Henderson Tyson
International Affairs Expert

Sala Udin
Politician & Activist

Valarie Justiss Vance
Social Worker & Activist

Reverend C.T. Vivian
Civil Rights Leader & Educator

Joan Scott Wallace
Government Appointee

Alyce Faye Wattleton
Nonprofit Chief Executive

Zonia Way
Interior Design Consultant

James O. Webb
Former Corporate Executive & Mayor, Glencoe, IL

Ruth Wells
Community Leader & Activist

Lillie Mae Wesley
Community Activist

Elyse White
Social Worker & Travel Agent

Linda White
Former International AKA Sorority President

Benaree Wiley
Diversity Consultant

Eddie Williams
Research Foundation Director

E. Faye Williams
Lawyer & Activist

Rufus Williams
Accountant, Entrepreneur & Public Servant

Genois Wilson
Fire Safety Specialist

Alice Windom
Social Worker

Nadine Poole Winter
Community Health Activist

Richard Womack
Assistant to AFL-CIO President

Rev. Abraham L. Woods, Jr.
Minister, Civil Rights Leader & Educator

Rev. Calvin Wallace Woods, Sr.
Minister & Civil Rights Activist

Robert L. Woodson
Social Activist

Conrad Worrill
Educator

Robert L. Wright
Technology Chief Executive & Civil Rights Activist

Rev. Addie Wyatt
Labor & Women's Rights Leader

Andrew Young
Civil Rights Legend & Former U.N. Ambassador

Doris Zollar
Community Leader & Entrepreneur