Maya Angelou

American memoirist

Martin Luther King Jr.

American minister

Colin Powell

Former United States Secretary of State

Richard Wright

English coach

Langston Hughes

American poet

Oprah Winfrey

American host

Jackie Robinson

American baseball player

Cicely Tyson

American actress

Rosa Parks

American activist

Martin Luther

Priest

W. E. B. Du Bois

American-Ghanaian sociologist

Ben Carson

Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Ruby Dee

American actress

Gordon Parks

American photographer

John Hope Franklin

American historian

Dorothy Height

American activist

Barbara Jordan

Former United States Representative

Taison

Brazilian football player

Jack Robinson

English football player

Elizabeth Eckford

American civil rights activist

Ernest Green

Terrence Roberts

School teacher

Gordon Parks Jr.

American film director ‧ Gordon Parks' son

Vernon Jordan

American executive

A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.

American advocate

Ernie Green

American football player

Orpah

Ruth's sister

Oliver Hill

American attorney

Benjamin Hooks

Former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States

Richard Weight

Author

Louis Wright

American football player

Martin Lücker

German organist

Édouard Dubois

French professional golfer

J. R. Martin

Linguist

Luther Martin

Politician

John Hope

American educator

Martin King

Irish television presenter

Myrlie Evers-Williams

American civil rights activist

Martin Kind

Managing Director of Kind Hörgeräte

Jacqueline Robinson

Louis T. Wright

American surgeon

William Stanley Braithwaite

American writer

George Washington Carver

American agricultural scientist

Thurgood Marshall

Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Constance Baker Motley

Former New York State Senator

Gloria Ray Karlmark

Contributing editor

Ernest Everett Just

Biologist

Leontyne Price

American soprano