2 Richard Allen, founder/first bishop AME Church
3 James Herbert Eubie Blake, composer/pianist
4 William Count Basie, orchestra leader/composer
5 Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California
6 Nathaniel Nat King Cole, singer
7 W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author/historian
8 Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington, orchestra leader/composer
9 Medger Wiley Evers, civil rights leader
10 James Forten, abolitionist/manufacturer
11 Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist
12 Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac
13 Alex Haley, author
14 William C. Handy, composer
15 Augustus F. Hawkins. U.S. Congressman California
16 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/composer
17 Matthew Henson, explorer
18 Benjamin L. Hooks, Former Executive Director NAACP
19 Daniel Chappie James, general U.S. Air Force
20 John H. Johnson, publisher EBONY and Jet magazines
21 Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
22 Benjamin Mays, educator/former president Atlanta University
23 Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympicchampion
24 Rev. Al Sharpton, Black activist
25 Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman New York
26 Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/lightheavy boxing champion
27 Carl B. Stokes, first Black elected mayor, Cleveland, OH
28 Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman Ohio
29 Booker T. Washington, educator/founder Tuskegee Institute
30 Egbert Austin Bert Williams, actor/ comedian
31 Rev./Dr. Martin Luther king Jr., civil rights leader
32 Harry A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian
33 Rev. Jesse Jackson, Black Activist/Civil rights leader
34 Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta
