Nella Larsen 1891 to 1964 was a nurse, librarian, writer, and novelist during the Harlem Renaissance.

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C.L. Dellums 1900 to 1989 was a porter, union, civil rights, and civic leader. He co-founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1937, the first labor union established and led by black folks. He was the founding President of the NAACP West Coast Region. He was also the uncle of Ron Dellums.

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Jaia Thomas is a sports/entertainment/intellectual property attorney, entrepreneur, and professor. She is the founder of Diverse Representation, a database of black entertainment agents, managers, attorneys and publicists in Los Angeles.

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Mavis Pusey 1928 to 2019 was a Jamaican abstract artist.

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Martin Sostre 1923 to 2015 was a prison rights activist who served time in Attica.

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Tommie Smith, a sprinter in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico protested racial discrimination during the awards ceremony by bowing his head and raising his black gloves fist in a black power salute during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem.

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Dorothy Lee Bolden 1923 to 2005 was the founder of the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America. She was also instrumental in voter registration.

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Iddris Sandu at 16 designed software which allowed for the algorithms for Uber, Instagram, and Snapchat. He will turn 22 in 2019.

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Robert Boyd, MD. became the President and co-founder of the first professional organization for black physicians in 1895.

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Lois Mailou Jones 1905 to 1998. She was an artist and teacher. An ex pat in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s.

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