W.E.B. Du Bois – Malcom X – Alex Haley – John Hope Franklin – Resmaa Menakem – Richard Drake – Sven Beckert – Nikole Hannah – Jones – Edward E. Baptist – Carter G. Woodson – Desmond A. Reid – Trevor Noah – Booker T. Washington – Fannie Lou Hamer – Frederick Douglass – George Washington Carver – Ida B. Wells – Martin Luther King Jr. – Mary E. Church Terrell – Thurgood Marshall – Sojourner Truth – Ben Carson – Desmon Meade – Maxwell Frost – Harry T. & Harriet Moore – Doris “Dorie” Miller – Crystal R. Sanders – Mary McLeod Bethune – John Brown – Rosa Parks – Harriet Tubman – James Baldwin – Jackie Robinson – Zora Neale Hurston – Colin Powell – Marcus Garvey – George Washington Carver – Booker T. Washington – Guion Bluford – Paul Robeson – James Weldon Johnson – Dorothy Height – Henry Highland Garnet – William Monroe Trotter – Roy Wilkins – Matthew Henson – Muhammad Ali – Alain LeRoy Locks – Walter White – Edward W. Brooks – Nat Turner – Amada Gorman – Barack Obama – Michelle Obama – Nelson Mandela – Ralph Abernathy – Maya Angelou – James Bevel – Ralph Bunche – Shirley Chisholm – Jesse Jackson – Al Sharpton – Jimmy Carter – John Lewis – James Meredith – Bayard Rustin – Andrew Jackson – Ella Baker – Naomi Anderson – Daisy Gatson Bates – Unita Blackwell – Julian Bond – Lillie Mae Bradford – Ruby Bridges – Aurelia Browder – Nannie Helen Burroughs – Beatrice Morrow Cannady – Shack Roberts – McCants Stewart – Harriet Redmond – Gladys McCoy – Mary Jane Spurlin – Carrie Halsell Ward – George riley – DeNorval Unthank – Anna Pauline Murray – Eunice Hunton Carter – Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter – Huey P. Newton – Jeanette Carter – Julius L. Chambers – Fannie Lee Chaney – James Chaney – Septima Poinsette – Clark – Eldridge Cleaver – Angela Davis – Kathleen Cleaver – Charles E. Cobb Jr. – John Conyers – Marvel Cooke – Thomas Jennings – Jo Anderson – Benjamin Montgomery – Lewis Latimer – Sarah Goode – Garrett Morgan – Alice Ball – Dr. Charles Drew – Frederick McKinley Jones – Mary Kenner – Otis Boykin – Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert Brown – Valarie Thomas – Patricia Bath – Philip Emeagwali – Dorothy Cotton – Claudette Colvin – Gloria Blackwell – Archibald Carey Jr. – Coleman Young – Tom Bradley – Sidney Poitier – Arthur “Pappy” Kennedy – Katherine G. Johnson – Dorothy Vaughan – Mary W. Jackson – Christine Darden – Anie Easley – Miriam Mann – Sarah Boone – Alexander Miles – Rebecca Lee Crumpler – Margaret Strickland Collins – Benjamin Banneker – Elizabeth Freeman – Mae Jemison – George Carruthers – Mark Dean – Madam C.J. Walker – William H. Carney – Charles Follis – Jane Bolin – Mary Ellen Pleasant – Ursula Burns – Robert Sengstacke Abbott – Gwendolyn Brooks – Alice Coachman – Gordon Parks – Mildred Jeter Loving – Charles Hamilton Houston – Bessie Colman – Henry Ossawa Tanner – Beverly Loraine Greene – Max Robinson – Henry Johnson – Georgia Ann Robinson – Mamie Johnson – Kivie Kaplan – Arnie Aronson – Henry Moscowitz – A. Philip Randolph – Roy Wilkins – Anna Julia Cooper – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – Mary Church Terrell – Fannie Barrier Williams – Toussaint Louverture – Ivan Van Sertima – Rube Walker – Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable – Joan Higginbotham – Percy Julian – John Henrik Clarke – Maggie Lena Walker – John Horse – Elijah McCoy – Elijah Muhammad – Frances Cress Welsing – Medgar Evers – Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan – Dick Gregory – Nina Simone – Martin Delany – Henry Ossian Flipper – Ketanji Brown Jackon – Kamala Harris – Bell Hooks – Barbara Smith – Claudia Jones – Queen Mother Moore – Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee – Ben Crump – Lonnie Johnson – Tommie Smith – John Carlos – Colin Kaepernick – Polly Jackson – Ella Baker – James Harris – Cluade McKay – O.W. Gurley – Geradine Thompson – Dr. Hazel N. Dukes – Rev. Hosea Williams – Oliver Brown – Linda Brown – 761st Tank Battalion – Tuskegee Airmen – Black Panthers Party – Black Wall Street – Rosewood Massacre – Joe Lang Kershaw – Gwen Sawyer Cherry – Carrie P. Meek – Dr. Arnett E. Girardeau – Judge Henry L. Adams – Judge Marva L. Crenshaw – Melvia Green – James Weldon Johnson – Judge Hubert L. Grimes – Joseph W. Hatchett – Justice James E. C. Perry – Justice Peggy Ann Quince – Leah Aleice Simms – July Perry – Rev. W. D. Judge – Dr. James R. Smith – Dr. J. B. Callahan – Katherine Johnson – Mae Jemison – Benjamin Banneker – Dr. Hazel N. Dukes – Samuel Ringold Ward – Henry Highland – Garnell – Charles L. Remond – Henry Bibb – John Berry Meachum – Buffalo Free Soil Convention – Denmark Vessey – William Loyd Garrison – Albert Murray – Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – Howard Thurman – Audre Lorde – Fritz Pollard – Marsha P. Johnson – Constance Baker Motley – Gerald Wilson – Amelia Boynton Robinson – James Amistead Lafayette – Major Taylor – Rosa Lee Ingram – Osbourne Brooks – Bass Reeves – Dr. I. Sylvester Hankins – Rosalind Franklin – Robert Smalls – Molly Williams – Mary White Overton – Henrietta Lacks – Claude Mckay – Thomas Sowell –
No list can ever represent a complete list of all the names that has created our history, please suggest any additions.