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, first African-American female physician in Georgia
, former Chair, United States Commission on Civil Rights; former Chancellor University of Colorado at Boulder
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, Art historian and museum administrator
, First woman to be appointed professor of Latin at a coeducational college
, President of Wilberforce University from 1942 to 1947, and President of Central State College from 1947–1965; third African-American to receive a PhD from Harvard
, Congressman, civil rights activist, former President of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
, Presbyterian missionary in Belgian Congo
, scholar of African-American politics, Chair, Afro-American Studies Brandeis University
, Pianist, professor, and piano accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers
, Harlem Renaissance painter, illustrator, and muralist
, United States House of Representatives Michigan
, jazz percussionist
, Choir director, ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Afro-American folk music
, father and former manager of Beyoncé, founder and owner of Music World Entertainment, and adjunct professor at Texas Southern University
, Administrative Law Judge, wife of Congressman Kendrick Meek
, U.S. Representative for Florida's 17th congressional district
, posthumously, a Hand of the Cause in Bahá'í Faith
, Pianist, professor, and former director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
, Concert pianist, piano professor, and director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
, Founder of Morris College
, first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate
, Actor, Five on the Black Hand Side; The Color Purple
, former NFL all pro cornerback
, first black female attorney in the state of Alabama and first black president of the National Association of Women Lawyers
, vaudeville performer
, sociologist; Julius Rosenwald Foundation Fellow at Columbia University
, renowned physicist and second African-American to earn a PhD in Physics
, Two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee
, former U.S. Secretary of Energy
, acclaimed filmmaker
, businesswoman and clubwoman in Arkansas
, Fifth president of Fisk University
, Assistant U.S. Attorney General under President Herbert Hoover
, U.S. Congressman and former U.S. district court judge
, music producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa
, author of children's books and former professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
, Concert pianist, piano professor, and accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers
, past national president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority
, businessman, Universal Life Insurance, Tri-State Bank
, first African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics; former Chair, mathematics department at Spelman College
, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, Meharry Medical College
, educator, decorated World War I veteran
, Fisk Jubilee Singer
, linguist and Chair, African Studies at Roosevelt University
, first African-American to publish a best-selling novel
, politician; first African-American to serve on the Denver Public Schools Board of Education
, State Senator during the Reconstruction Era and the first African American elected three times to the Tennessee General Assembly
, educator
, microwave physicist, chief of the Microwave Laboratory at NASA's Electronics Research Center and director of the United States Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
, community organizer, women's activist, and social worker
, Chemist and second African-American member of the National Academy of Sciences
, legendary basketball coach, Southern University
, first African American to earn a doctorate in zoology
, pioneering dancer and choreographer; former artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
, jazz pianist/composer, second wife of Louis Armstrong
, teacher, college administrator, activist
, Organist and Professor Emerita of music at Spelman College in Atlanta
, two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner
, actress, comedian
, Isler became the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in Astrophysics from Yale University in 2014
, First woman and first African-American U.S. Secretary of Energy; fourteenth president of Fisk University
, former acting chief and operating officer of the United States Agency for International Development
, historian, professor, scholar, author of landmark text From Slavery to Freedom
, Sociologist of the Chicago School
, Lady Principal of Tuskegee Institute and third wife of Booker T. Washington
, Head librarian and Harlem Renaissance poet
, author and Baptist missionary
, Ghanaian politician and founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention
, concert singer
, first African-American to earn an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
, academic, author, activist
, Mathematician and civil rights activist. Fired in 1955 for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
, first African-American woman elected to a state senate
, first Fisk graduate to receive a scholarship to Juilliard, Pulitzer Prize Nominee
, sociologist, scholar, first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard
, first black woman to earn a doctorate in library sciences from Columbia University
, first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus
, NFL Cornerback for Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills, and Cleveland Browns
, American civil rights activist and women's suffrage advocate
, pioneering Liberian educator
, second African-American United States Solicitor General; Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
, famous bandleader in the swing era
, San Francisco District 10 Supervisor 2010 – Present
, First African-American president of Fisk University
, novelist, Harlem Renaissance era
, inventor, control device for the heart pacemaker
, first African American to earn a doctorate in Chemistry
, Grammy Award-winning and Dove Award-nominated Christian contemporary singer/songwriter, ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol
, teacher
, director of Harlem YWCA, 1914-1947
, Author, poet, and civil rights activist; wrote the poem on which the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is based
, first African American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin
, musical composer, studied at Juilliard and Columbia University
, anthropologist, former President of Spelman College and Bennett College
, first African American to occupy the office of Mayor of Memphis. Tennessee State Representative, State Senator, Memphis Councilman, Jurisdictional Bishop in the Church of God in Christ
, Founding editor of Freedomways Journal
, poet, author, professor, scholar
, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
, Godfather of Black Politics
, 1.57788E9
, wife of Gen. Colin Powell
, actress, best known for IKEA commercials
, Senator, South Carolina General Assembly
, founding member of SNCC
, philanthropist and member of the Ethiopian Imperial Family
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