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- Economist (en)
- American jazz musician (en)
- Civil rights attorney (en)
- Blues musician (en)
- writer, educator (en)
- Recipient of the Medal of Honor (en)
- Congresswoman (en)
- Politician and civil rights activist; considered one of the most influential African Americans in the history of Kansas City, Missouri (en)
- Composer and conductor; the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, and the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company (en)
- African-American doctor notable for self-defense in 1925 against a white mob's attempt to force him out of his Detroit neighborhood, and acquittal at trial (en)
- American architect, professor at Tennessee State University, and an early African American architect in Oklahoma and Tennessee; he did not graduate from Wilberforce University but took classes (en)
- American school administrator, college president, and teacher (en)
- Business executive and civil rights leader (en)
- Educator, writer and activist (en)
- Jazz composer and theorist (en)
- Labor leader, civil rights organizer (en)
- Minister, AME bishop (en)
- Musician; member of the Count Basie Orchestra (en)
- City commissioner and first African American mayor of Dayton, Ohio (en)
- Jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, pianist, and drummer (en)
- Pioneering civil rights activist (en)
- Former college football coach at Southern University from 1936 to 1961. He also coached at Jarvis Christian College, Bishop College, Texas College; member of College Football Hall of Fame (en)
- U.S. Congressman, Wilberforce President (en)
- University president and founder (en)
- Owner and designer of Clearview Golf Club, the first integrated golf course in America and the first owned and designed by an African American (en)
- Playwright, librarian, and member of the Harlem Renaissance (en)
- served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1970 to 1984 (en)
- Pastor at Cosmopolitan Community Church in Chicago from 1932 to 1966. First woman to graduate with a Doctor of Divinity from Wilberforce University. (en)
- president of Paul Quinn College 1883-1891, 1911-1914 (en)
- First African-American woman to serve in the Illinois House of Representatives (en)
- The first female NAACP president in 1949, civil right leader and activist. (en)
- Twelfth African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics . First African-American faculty member at Oberlin College. Former associate dean of graduate studies at the University of Michigan. (en)
- Opera singer and first African American prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera (en)
- American mathematician whose work at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , predecessor agency to NASA; inspired the 2016 biographical drama film Hidden Figures (en)
- First female African-American officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; commanding officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas during WWII (en)
- Minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879 (en)
- First African American state legislator in New Hampshire (en)
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