| A | B |
|---|
| Matthew Sheppard | Killed in Wyoming for being gay. |
| Kweisi Mfume | President of NAACP |
| Janet Reno | First Female Attorney General |
| Ron Paige | Secretary of Education |
| George C. Wolfe | Author of the Colored Museum |
| Rebecca Walker | Founder of the Third Wave of Feminism |
| Jesse Jackson | Founder of the Rainbow Coalition |
| Madame CJ Walker | First African American Female Millionaire |
| Daisy Bates | Fought for desegragation |
| Hattie McDaniel | First African American to win an Academy Award |
