1. Robert
Sengstacke Abbott, founder/publisher CHICAGO DEFENDER
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, Olympic champion
24. A.
Phillip Randolph, founder/ first president, Internat. Brotherhood Sleeping Car
Porters
25. Charles
B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman New York
26. Sugar
Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy 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. Harry
A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian
32.
Andrew
Young, former mayor of Atlanta
