| A | B |
|---|
| Absalom Jones | Founder of African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Prince Hall | Founder of Prince Hall Masonry |
| Martin R. Delany | Published Mystery weekly newspaper advocating abolition |
| Thornton Andrew Jackson | Founded the Order of Eastern Star |
| Thurgood Marshall | First African American to serve on supreme court |
| Peter Ogden | Founder of Black Odd Fellows |
| James Kwegyir Aggrey | African Co Founder of the Achimota School |
| Edward Wilmot Blyden | Considered the father of Pan Africanism |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | Political Activist and writer |
| Marcus Garvey | Founder of United Negro Improvement Associaion |
| J. E. Casely Hayford | mentored Pan African aspirations of W.E.B Dubois, Marcus Garvey |
| Robert Athlyi Rogers | Wrote Holy Piby considered the Rastafari Bible |
| Mary Burnett Talbert | 1 of the founders of Niagara Movement which gave rise to the NAACP |
| Joseph Nathaniel Hibbert | 1 of the founders of Rastafari movement |
| William Saunders Crowdy | Founded the church which gave rise to the Black Hebrew Israelites |
| Fard Muhammed | Founded the Nation of Islam |
| Elijah Poole | Became known as the messanger of Allah "Fard Muhammed" |
| Noble Dru Ali | Founded the Moorish Science Temple |
| Clarence X | Founded the 5 Percent movement |
| Jesse Jackson | Founded Rainbow Push and civil rights leader |
