Clara McBride Hale was a black humanitarian who founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs; 1969.

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Lena Horne was a black singer, dancer, actress who, in 1941, sang at Cafe Society during World War II and  refused to perform for segregated audiences.

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Unita Blackwell 1st black woman mayor in Mississippi, 1976.

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The Supremes, a back female singing group, became Motown’s most successful act and the best charting group in U.S. history as well as the world’s best-selling girl groups of all times; 1959.

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Dr. Walter Turnbull was a black musician and the founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem; 1968.

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Dinah Washington, black singer and pianist, was cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott, a black newspaper publisher and editor, founded The Chicago Defender which grew to have the highest circulation of any black-owned newspaper in the country; 1905.

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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke first black woman ever elected to Congress from CA, 1972.

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Florence Griffith-Joyner aka Flo Jo, was a black, female, track and field athlete who is considered the fastest woman of all time based on her world records for both 100m and 200m of any race; 1988 Olympics.

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Eartha Kitt was a black singer, actress, and activist who established the Kittsville Youth Foundation and was involved with “Rebels with a Cause,” 1966.

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