Charles Hamilton Houston
Lawyer and educator who designed the legal strategy that brought down Plessy v. Ferguson.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiChuck Berry
St. Louis pioneer of rock and roll; author of "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven."
St. Louis, MO, USA
@blackwikiCicely Tyson
Actress whose 60-year stage and screen career produced Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and How to Get Away with Murder.
New York, NY, USA
@blackwikiCoretta Scott King
Civil rights leader who built the King Center and the campaign that made MLK Day a federal holiday.
Atlanta, GA, USA
@blackwikiCornel West
Tulsa-born philosopher and public intellectual; emeritus professor at Princeton and Harvard.
Tulsa, OK, USA
@blackwikiCurtis Mayfield
Songwriter and producer who scored the soundtrack of Black 1960s and 70s β "People Get Ready," Super Fly, "Move On Up."
Chicago, IL, USA
@blackwikiDaniel Hale Williams
Surgeon who performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893 in Chicago.
Chicago, IL, USA
@blackwikiDenzel Washington
Two-time Academy Award-winning actor, director, and producer whose four-decade career spans Shakespeare to street dramas and makes him one of the most respected figures in Hollywood.
@blackwikiDerrick Brooks
Hall of Fame Buccaneers linebacker and 2014 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee.
Tampa, FL, USA
@blackwikiDiane Nash
Nashville student-movement leader who organized the lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides.
Nashville, TN, USA
@blackwikiDomonique Brown
Award-winning illustrator and designer from Pomona, CA; founder and artist behind the DomoINK lifestyle brand.
Pomona, CA, USA
@blackwikiDoug Williams
Buccaneers QB; first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl.
Tampa, FL, USA
@blackwikiDr. Dre
Compton producer and Beats co-founder; architect of West Coast hip-hop.
Compton, CA, USA
@blackwikiDraymond John
Entrepreneur and investor known for building businesses across fashion, media, and brand consulting.
Entrepreneur
@blackwikiDuke Ellington
Washington, DC-born composer and bandleader whose 50-year career made jazz America's classical music.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiEddie Bernice Johnson
Long-serving Dallas Black congresswoman; first Black woman elected to public office from Dallas.
Dallas, TX, USA
@blackwikiEleanor Holmes Norton
Long-serving non-voting Delegate to Congress from Washington, DC.
Washington, DC, USA
@blackwikiElla Baker
Field organizer who built the infrastructure of three major civil rights organizations β NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC β without ever seeking the spotlight.
Littleton, NC, USA
@blackwikiEmmitt Smith
NFL all-time leading rusher; Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame running back.
Dallas, TX, USA
@blackwikiErykah Badu
Dallas-born neo-soul artist; founding voice of the genre.
Dallas, TX, USA
@blackwikiErykah Badu
Dallas-born neo-soul artist; founding voice of the genre (already added in earlier round β duplicate skipped).
Dallas, TX, USA
@blackwikiFannie Lou Hamer
Mississippi Delta sharecropper turned voting-rights organizer whose 1964 DNC speech forced national TV coverage of Jim Crow violence.
Ruleville, MS, USA
@blackwikiFrederick Douglass
Maryland-born abolitionist, orator, and statesman; the most photographed American of the 19th century.
Easton, MD, USA
@blackwikiGarrett Morgan
Paris, KY-born inventor of the three-position traffic signal and an early gas mask design.
Paris, KY, USA
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