| Name | DOB | Occupation/Hometown |
| Frederick Douglas | 1817 - 1895
Feb | Abolitionist/Orator |
| W.E.B. DuBois | 1868 - 1963
FEB 23 - AUG | Scholar/Activist |
| Carter G. Woodson | 1876 - 1950
DEC 19 | Historian/Educator |
| Joel A. Rogers | 1880 - 1966
SEP 6 | Anthropologist |
| Claude McKay | 1890 - 1948
SEP 15 | Poet |
| Melvin B. Tolson | 1898 - 1966
FEB 6 – AUG 29 | Poet/Writer |
| Langston Hughes | 1902 - 1967
FEB 1 – MAY 22 | Poet/Author |
| Zora Neale Hurston | 1891 - 1960
JAN 7 | Anthropologist/Author |
| Alain Locke | 1886 - 1954
SEP 13 – JUNE 10 | Philosopher/Author |
| A. Philip Randolph | 1889 – 1979
APR 15 – MAY 16 | Labor Statesman/Activist |
| Alex Palmer Haley | 1921 – 1992 | Author/Writer |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871 - 1938 | Diplomat/Poet |
| Thelma (Butterfly) McQueen | 1971 - 1995 | Actress |
| Huey P. Newton | 1942 - 1989 | Political Activist/Humanist |
| Kwame Nkrumah | 1909 - 1972 | Head of State |
| George Padamore | 1901 - 1959 | Pan-Africanist |
| Jacques Romain | 1907 - 1944 | Novelist/Diplomat |
| Dr. Bobby E. Wright | 1934 - 1989 | Psychologist |
| Dorothy West | 1909 - 1998 | Writer/Humanist |
| Bruce Wright | 1918 - 2005 | Jurist/Poet |
| H. Hubert Harrison | 1883 - 1927 | Free Thought Orator |
| Whitney M. Young | 1921 - 1971 | Human Rights Statesman |
| Jesse Owens | 1913 – 1970 | Goodwill Ambassador/Athlete |
| Chandler Owen | No info | Activist/Writer |
| John Jackson | 1883 - 1927 | Historian/Lecturer |
| Paul Robeson | 1883 - 1927 | Actor/Activist |
| Richard Wright | 1883 - 1927 | Naturalist/Author |
| Sterling Brown | 1901 - 1989
MAY 1 - JAN 13 | Poet |
| Lucy Parsons | 1853 - 1942
MAR 16 - MAR 7 | Anarcist/Activist |
| Lorraine Hansberry | 1930 – 1965
MAY 19 - JAN 12 | Play Wright |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917-2000
JUN 7 – JUN 30 | Poet |
| George Schuyler | No info | Columnist |
| Arturo Schomburgh | 1874 – 1938
JAN 24 - JUN 30 | Bibliographer |
| John H. Clarke | 1915 - 1998
JAN 1 - JUL 16 | Historian |
| Ralph Bunche | 1904 - 1971
AUG 7 | Statesman |
| James Farmer | 1920 - 1999
JAN 20 - JUL 9 | Human Rights Activist |
| Daniel Hale Williams | 1856 – 1931
JAN 18 - AUG 4 | Physician |
| J. Saunders Redding | 1906 – 1988
OCT 12 - MAR 2 | Educator/Author |
| Edgar Ethelred Brown | 1924 – 1987
AUG 22 - NOV 30 | Author |
| James Baldwin | 1924 – 1987
AUG 22 - NOV 30 | Author |
| Chauncey Bell | 1901 – 1993 | Entrepreneur/Atheist |
| William Waring Cuney | 1906 – 1976
MAY 6 - JUN 30 | Writer |
| Frank Crosswaith | 1892 – 1965
MAY 13 - JUN 17 | Political Activist/Journalist |
| Elridge LeRoy Cleaver | 1935 – 1998
MAY 1 | Political Activist |
| W.A. Domingo | No info | Writer |
| Frank Marshall Davis | 1905 – 1987
DEC 31 | Poet/Journalist |
| James Forman | 1931 – 2005
OCT 28 | Human Rights/Activist |
| Frantz Fanon | 1925 – 1961 | Psychoanalyst/Philosopher |
| Freda Amakye Ansah |
| Rationalist
Accra, Ghana |
| Martin G. Bernal |
| Professor |
| Michel Fabre |
| Scholar
Paris |
| Charles W. Faulkner |
| Columnist
Washington D.C. |
| Leonard Harris |
| Philosopher |
| Norman Hill |
| Human Rights Activist
New York City |
| David H. Pitney |
| Lecturer |
| Mike McBryde |
| Actor/Artist
Pittsburgh, PA |
| Nkeyonye Otakpor |
| Philosopher
Benin, Nigeria |
| Ivan Van Sertima |
| Journalist |
| Franz Vanderpuye |
| Rationalist
Accra, Ghana |
| Kwasi Wiredu |
| Philosopher |
| Anthony Burnside |
| Magician
Kansis City, MI |
| Carolyn M. Dejoie |
| Humanist |
| Chaka Ferguson |
| Journalist
Irvington, NJ |
| Gladman C. Humbles |
| Fire-fighter
Paducah, KY |
| Leo Igwe |
| Humanist
Nigeria |
| Alfred T. Kisubi |
| Poet/Philosopher |
| Micah Lamptey |
| Rationalist
Accra, Ghana |
| Dominic I. Ogbonna |
| Philosopher/Humanist
Nigeria |
| Keenya H. Oliver |
|
Glen Ellyn, IL |
| Anthony B. Pinn |
| Professor
St. Paul, Minnesota |
| David S. Summers |
| Writer/Physician
Erie, Pennslyvania |
| Ranjini L. Thaver |
| Professor/Economist
DeLand, Florida |
| Igwe Ucheakolam |
| Activist
Ibadan, Nigeria |
| Kenyatta Yamel |
| Activist
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Gebregeorgis Yohannes |
| Activist
Ethiopia |
| Kelly Abbey |
| Athiest
New York |
| David Allen |
| Writer
Washington D.C. |
| James Andrews |
| Professor
Florida |
| Brenda Anthony |
| Rapper/Humanist |
| Saundra Brown Asante |
| Unitarian
Washington D.C. |
| Niitse Akufo Awnku Ado-Dwanka |
| Rationalist/Nuclear Physicist |
| Richard B. Boddie |
| Free-thinker
Southern California |
| Herb Brown |
| Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist
Ohio |
| Dr. Josef ben-Jochannan |
| Scholar |
| Eugene Charrington |
| Athiest |
| Ssekitooleko Deogratias |
| Humanitarian
Uganda |
| Cheikh Anta Diop | 1923 - 1986 | Historian/Humanist |
| Emanuel dos Santos |
| Free-thinker |
| Angela Yvonne Davis |
| Activist/Poet |
| Rothchild Francis |
| Editor |
| Gregory Gross |
| Athiest |
| Ken Hamblin |
|
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| Walter Everette Hawkins | 1915 - | Poet |
| Makeda Judkins |
| Humanist |
| Alfred Kisubi |
| Professor |
| Nu Otto Kwame II |
| Rationalist |
| Monica G. Moorehead |
| Militant Unionist |
| Edgar Marese-Smith |
| Secularist |
