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JOHN H. JOHNSON--Pioneer media mogul (EBONY and Jet) and businessman

ROSA PARKS--"Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"

OSSIE DAVIS--Award-winning actor, activist, producer, playwright, director

VICTIMS OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA

U.S. REP. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM--Politician and first Black woman elected to the U.S Congress

JOHNNIE L. COCHRAN JR.--Famed attorney, activist and author

BROCK PETERS--Award-winning actor

OSCAR BROWN JR.--Composer, singer, actor, playwright, director

JOHN L. PROCOPE--New York publishing entrepreneur (Amsterdam News)

KENNETH B. CLARK--Noted educator and scholar who helped end segregation

LUTHER VANDROSS--Award-winning singer

RONALD WINANS--Gospel singer

SHIRLEY HORN--Jazz singer

BOBBY SHORT--Vocalist and performer

NIPSEY RUSSELL--Comedian and actor, called the "poet laureate of television"

JIMMY SMITH--Pioneering musician, called "the king of the Hammond organ"

LAMONT BENTLEY--Actor, co-starred in TV's MOESHA

TYRONE DAVIS--Singer

OBIE BENSON--Original member of the Four Tops

LITTLE MILTON CAMPBELL--Mississippi blues musician, singer and songwriter

VIVIAN MALONE JONES--Civil rights pioneer and first Black graduate of the University of Alabama

CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY--Civil rights attorney who became the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge

AUGUST WILSON--Award-winning playwright

C. DELORES TUCKER--Civil rights activist, scholar, founder of the National Congress of Black Women

ARTHUR FLETCHER--Activist who was called "the Father of Affirmative Action"

HAROLD CRUSE--Author and educator

EUGENE RECORD--Songwriter and lead singer of The Chi-Lites

FREDDIE PERREN--Grammy Award-winning producer

AL LOVING--Painter

DONN CLENDENON--New York Mets star and 1969 World Series MVP

EUGENIA CHARLES--Pioneering Prime Minister of Dominica, known as "the Iron Lady"

CLARENCE (GATEMOUTH) BROWN--Texas musician and bluesman

THEODORE ROOSEVELT (DOUBLE DUTY) RADCLIFFE--Negro Leagues baseball star

MARK MATTHEWS--Oldest Buffalo Soldier

ATTY. MAKGATHO MANDELA--Last son of Nelson Mandela

DONALD L. HOLLOWELL--Civil rights lawyer

EARL L. NEAL--Attorney

LLOYD WHEELER--Retired president of Supreme Liberty Life Insurance

FLOYD WASHINGTON JR.--Ford Motor Company Fund executive

HELEN WILKINS CLAYTOR--First Black president of the YWCA

DR. MAURICE F. RABB JR.--Pioneering opthalmologist

HAMILTON NAKI--Self-taught South African surgeon

BRUCE WRIGHT--Former New York judge

LYN COLLINS--Singer

MARY THELMA WASHINGTON--Pioneering CPA

LEE WARRICK--Mother of Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick

CHARLES JEMISON--Father of pioneering astronaut Dr Mae Jemison

ARTHUR E. TEELE JR.--Former Miami city commissioner

RAY W. POLLARD--Former lead singer of the 1950s group, The Wanderers

JOHN LASSITER--Pioneering insurance executive

WILLIE HUTCH--Motown producer and singer

SONJI CLAY--First wife of Muhammad Ali

THE REV. DR. HENDERSON S. DAVIS--Noted A.M.E. pastor

HELEN G. QUIGLESS--Historic preservationist and wife of founder of first Black hospital In Tarboro, N.C.

JACQUELINE (JACKIE) DONAHUE--Sister of rapper Nelly

ERNEST CRICHLOW--Harlem Renaissance artist

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