Statue of Liberty was designed to celebrate the end of slavery not immigrants.

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James Chaney, 1943 to 1964 one of three civil rights activists murdered during the Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

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Melba Roy Mouton, 1929 – 1990, Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA‘s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called “computers”.

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Johnnie Tillmon, 1926 to 1995 in 1963 founded ANC (Aid to Needy Children) Mothers Anonymous, one of the first grassroots welfare mothers’ organizations, later became part of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). She was the first chair of the NWRO.

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Tavis Smiley co-hosted a talk show in Los Angeles on BET Tonight where his views on race and politics earned him attention at the Los Angeles Times in 1996.

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Shaneka Hammond Brown opened SHB International Hair Academy School of Cosmetology. The facility is the first black owned beauty school in Horry County South Carolina as of 2019.

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Walter White (1893 – 1955) led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for almost a quarter of a century, 1931–1955, after joining the organization as an investigator in 1918.

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Lana Ogilvie became the first Black CoverGirl in 1992.

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Bob Moses is known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the 1960’s.

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Margaret Walker, 1908 to 1998, was a poet, professor and novelist.

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