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- Member of the Alabama House of Representatives (en)
- pianist and composer (en)
- local New Orleans politician. She was also Director of the Center for Student Retention and Success in Southern University at New Orleans. (en)
- Jazz pianist and music educator; father of jazz artists: Branford, Wynton, Jason and Delfeayo; retired Director of Jazz Studies, University of New Orleans (en)
- minister and a Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, seventh district (en)
- the first African-American President of an Ivy League University and the first African-American President of a "Seven Sisters" school (en)
- Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 11; lawyer from Arcadia (en)
- Award winning Poet whose poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American. (en)
- the first African American to serve on the Louisiana State Supreme Court ; a member of the Dillard University Board of Trustees (en)
- Women's rights activist and wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar (en)
- Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana (en)
- Dentist, businessman, and civic leader in Shreveport, Louisiana, who organized the civil rights movement in his city through the formation of the interest group known as "Blacks United for Lasting Leadership", which successfully lobbied for racial justice (en)
- actress of stage, screen and television. She was a poet, playwright and author (en)
- Civil rights activist, Algebra Project (en)
- Member, Louisiana House of Representatives (en)
- National Spokesman, Nation of Islam (en)
- Poet Laureate for Louisiana (en)
- First African-American Governor in the United States; 24th Governor of Louisiana (en)
- among first African Americans to receive a PhD (en)
- comedian/actor (en)
- Minister, former United States Ambassador to Liberia, and founder of the Maryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored Youths. (en)
- Founder, Dunbar Hospital, the first black hospital in Detroit, MI (en)
- Accomplished jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger; musical director for Sonny & Cher, Dr. John and many others; arranger for Sam Cooke (en)
- President & CEO of Girls, Inc.; former President and Chief Operating Officer of Carson, Inc.; the first female chairperson of the Dillard University Board of Trustees (en)
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