Beverly Smith is a writer, feminist, academic, and activist. She and Barbara Smith are twins.

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Alex Haley received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP for his research and literary skills in the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family in1977.   

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Alice Walker born 1944 is a writer, poet, and activist. She coined the term “womanist” to describe a feminist of color. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Color Purple.

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Marcus Garvey was the Jamaican-born President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL); 1927.

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Black Bourbon Society is the first black bourbon Society to have a barrel pick with Makers Mark.

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Zelda “Jackie” Ormes born in 1911, died in 1985 was the first black woman cartoonist to have a syndicated column with Torchy Brown in Dixon Harlem 1937 to 1942 followed by Patty-Jo n Ginger from 1945 to 1956.

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Arthur Ashe was the 1st black tennis player selected for the United States Davis Cup team, 1963.

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Audre Lorde born 1934, died 1992, lesbian writer, feminist, poet, librarian and activist. Co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, first U.S. publisher for women of color.

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Absalom Boston was the 1st black captain to sail a whale ship with an all-black crew, 1822.

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Lorraine Branham born 1952 died in 2019. In 2008 became the first woman and first person of color to be Dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, NY.

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