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