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# | Article | description | sex or gender | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | occupation | image | item |
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1 | Alexander P. Ashbourne | (1820-1915) African American slave and inventor | male | 1820 | 1915 | Philadelphia | inventor | Q98583178 | |
2 | Alonzo Ashley | African-American man (1982-2011) killed in a struggle with police officers at the Denver Zoo in Colorado | male | 1982 | 2011-07-18 | Q116603431 | |||
3 | Andy Lopez | victim of 2013 shooting by police officer | male | 2000-06-02 | 2013-10-22 | Q65659045 | |||
4 | Anne Wortham | American sociologist (born 1941) | female | 1941-11-26 | Jackson | sociologist university teacher |
Q63435838 | ||
5 | Annie E. Brown | (1862-1918) Methodist Episcopal evangelist and missionary | female | 1862 | 1918 | missionary | Q98530967 | ||
6 | Anthony Lamar Smith | victim of 2011 police shooting | male | 1987-05-19 | 2011-12-20 | Q64826759 | |||
7 | Apolinar Salcedo Caicedo | Colombian lawyer | male | 1955-02-22 | El Cerrito, Valle del Cauca | lawyer | Q5701515 | ||
8 | Archibald J. Carey, Sr. | activist, writer and religious leader (1868-1931) | male | 1868-08-25 | 1931-03-23 | Atlanta | preacher political activist |
Q65658401 | |
9 | Arnold Bennett Donowa | (1896-196?) Trinidad-born dental surgeon and Spanish Civil War veteran | male | 1896 | 1964 | Trinidad | dental surgeon | Q115098352 | |
10 | Arthur W. Lewis | American naval officer and diplomat (1926-2019) | male | 1926 | 2019 | naval officer diplomat |
Q116679887 | ||
11 | Arthur Woodley | American opera singer | male | 1949 | 2020-11-20 | New York City | musician singer |
Q63430480 | |
12 | Beatrice Welters | American ambassador and board member, former U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago | female | 1951 | diplomat | Q112035793 | |||
13 | Benjamin M. Holmes | American teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer (1846-1875) | male | 1846 | 1875-10-09 | Charleston | teacher journalist singer |
Q116362211 | |
14 | Bill Daye | African American lacrosse player (1981- ) | male | 1981 | lacrosse player | Q115122276 | |||
15 | Bob Bailey | American entertainer, businessman, and civil rights activist | male | 1927-02-14 | 2014-05-24 | Detroit | television personality businessperson civil rights advocate |
Q105716947 | |
16 | C. Payne Lucas | U.S. Peace Corps official and founder of Africare | male | 1933-09-14 | 2018-09-15 | Q64021438 | |||
17 | Camille Thierry | 1814-1875 , poet | male | 1814 | 1875 | New Orleans | poet | Q55720667 | |
18 | Carlos Alcis | (1970-2013) Carlos Alcis was a 43-year-old father of eight, who was scared to death, and suffered an apparent heart attack when police forced their way into his Brooklyn, New York home, searching for a robbery suspect. Carlos Alcis was born in H | male | 1970 | 2013 | Haiti | Q98534546 | ||
19 | Carolyn Downs | American activist (1953-1978), member of the Seattle, Washington Chapter of the Black Panther Party (SCBPP) | female | 1953-05-18 | 1978 | Marshall | activist community organizer |
Q115122437 | |
20 | Charleena Lyles | Charleena Lyles (1987-2017) was 30 years old and a mother of four who was shot and killed by Seattle Police on June 18, 2017. | female | 1987 | 2017-06-18 | Q63806889 | |||
21 | Charles A. Davis | African-American journalist, public relations agent, real estate developer and civic leader (1922–2016) | male | 1922-09-29 | 2016 | Mobile | journalist real estate developer community leader |
Q116616270 | |
22 | Charles B. Bell Jr. | mathematician | male | 1928-08-20 | 2010-10-26 | New Orleans | mathematician university teacher |
Q98529673 | |
23 | Charles Decatur Brooks | field secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church (1939-1979) | male | 1930-07-24 | 2016 | Greensboro | pastor | Q115463999 | |
24 | Charles James | American lawyer and diplomat | male | 1922-06-06 | 2006 | Washington, D.C. | lawyer diplomat |
Q47087116 | |
25 | Charles Kenyatta | (1921-2005) organizer of the Harlem Mau Mau Society and Malcolm X’s body guard | male | 1921-02-20 | 2005 | Boston | bodyguard orator activist |
Q98534656 | |
26 | Charles Leander Hill | African American philosopher | male | 1906-07-28 | 1956-12-08 | Urbana | philosopher | Q113765772 | |
27 | Charles Smith, Jr. | African American shot by North Little Rock, Arkansas police officers (2000-2018) | male | 2000 | 2018-01-07 | Q115452030 | |||
28 | Charles Tregenna | British novelist | male | 1810 | 1878 | novelist draper politician |
Q64685941 | ||
29 | Charles Victor Roman | 1864-1934 , physician and medical educator | male | 1864 | 1934 | physician educator |
Q55720293 | ||
30 | Christian Taylor | 19-year-old college student shot by Texas police officer Brad Miller on August 7, 2015 | male | 1995 | 2015-08-07 | Q92918617 | |||
31 | Cliff Hooper, Sr. | American artist, activist, and community leader (1917-2001) | male | 1917 | 2001 | Evansville | artisan teacher activist community leader |
Q115122420 | |
32 | Cyril Michael | judge in the United States Virgin Islands (1898-1978) | male | 1898-01-22 | 1978-03-05 | Saint Thomas | judge | Q115977939 | |
33 | Dale Brown Emeagwali | American microbiologist and cancer researcher | female | 1954-12-24 | Baltimore | biologist microbiologist |
Q22003841 | ||
34 | Danny Scarborough | American choreographer and dancer (1947-1989) | male | 1947-07-27 | 1989-05-10 | Wake Forest | choreographer dancer playwright |
Q98534672 | |
35 | David A. Clark Jr. | American sheriff (1956– ), sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin | male | 1956 | Milwaukee | sheriff | Q115990335 | ||
36 | David B. Lewis | American judge, the first African American to serve on the Criminal Court of Appeals in Oklahoma | male | 1956 1958-04-30 |
Ardmore | judge | Q116593463 | ||
37 | David Fleming | (1962- ) brigadier general in the United States Army, the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Delaware National Guard | male | 1962 | soldier | Q63807025 | |||
38 | DeAunta T. Farrow | (1994-2007) twelve-year-old African American boy killed by West Memphis, Arkansas Police Officer Erik Sammis on June 22, 2007 | male | 1994-09-07 | 2007-06-22 | West Memphis | Q115452289 | ||
39 | Deion Fludd | American teenager (1996-2013) | male | 1996 | 2013-07-12 | Q116615832 | |||
40 | Derrick Jones | (1983-2010) African American shot and killed by Oakland Police Department officers on November 8, 2010 | male | 1983 | 2010-11-08 | barber | Q115452545 | ||
41 | Deton Brooks | African American war correspondent (1909-1975) | male | 1909-01-14 | 1975 | Chicago | journalist | Q98532523 | |
42 | Dexter Dillard Eure Sr. | American journalist (1924-2015), pioneering black newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe | male | 1924 | 2015 | Suffolk | journalist | Q116615372 | |
43 | Didier Yapi | Ivorian information technology inventor and researcher (1976-2015) | male | 1976 | 2015-04-06 | Gôh-Djiboua District | inventor | Q115977956 | |
44 | Donald G. Phelps | American educator (1929-2003) | male | 1929-07-22 | 2003-07-05 | Seattle | academic administrator pundit university teacher |
Q114151891 | |
45 | Dorothy Evans Holmes | American psychoanalyst | female | 1943 | psychoanalyst | Q115098133 | |||
46 | E. Arnold Bertonneau | (1834-1912) New Orleans wine merchant, black soldier, and one of the first African American participants in Louisiana’s Reconstruction period | male | 1834 | 1912 | New Orleans | wine trader soldier |
Q115098327 | |
47 | E. Russell “Noodles” Smith | (? – 1952) Seattle nightclub owner | male | nightclub owner | Q115098425 | ||||
48 | Edward L. Miles | oceanographer | male | 1939-12-12 | 2016-05-07 | Trinidad | oceanographer | Q104886756 | |
49 | Edwin C. “Bill” Berry | American civil rights activist | male | 1910-11-11 | 1987-03-14 | Oberlin | civil rights advocate | Q116299127 | |
50 | Edwin Garrison Walker | African American leatherworker, lawyer, and politician (1830-1901) | male | 1830 | 1901 | Boston | leatherworker lawyer politician |
Q115462028 | |
51 | Eldridge F. Williams | African American airman (1917-2015), one of the first trainers of Tuskegee Airmen | male | 1917-11-02 | 2015-07-02 | Washington County | airman | Q116679367 | |
52 | Eliza Ann Dixon Day | ( ? – 1800’s) A member of the John Street Methodist Church and founding member of the A.M.E. Zion Church in New York City, Eliza Day combined religious devotion with abolitionist politics. Day was an active abolitionist who established a patter | female | 1795 | Q121302211 | ||||
53 | Ellis Cose | African American journalist and writer (born 1951) | male | 1951-02-20 1952-02-20 |
journalist | Q63442100 | |||
54 | Ernest “Rip” Patton | (1940– ) African American civil rights activist | male | 1940 | Nashville | civil rights advocate | Q63807701 | ||
55 | Errol R. Schwartz | American military officer (1952- ), the first black adjutant general for the District of Columbia | male | 1952 | Georgetown | military officer | Q115145832 | ||
56 | Eshetu Chole | Ethiopian economist (1945-1998) | male | 1945 | 1998-06-18 | economist | Q115647508 | ||
57 | Eugene Orr | African American LDS activist (1946– ) | male | 1946-03-16 | Ashburn | activist naturopath |
Q115098289 | ||
58 | Eula Mae Love | African American woman (1939-1979) shot by LAPD officers on January 3rd, 1979 in the front yard of her home | female | 1939-08-08 | 1979-01-03 | Q115463779 | |||
59 | Eunice Gray Smith | Human computer for NASA | female | 1923-12-31 | 2006-06-19 | Portsmouth | mathematician | Q63968107 | |
60 | Eustace Augustus Dixon, II | Eustace A. Dixon II (1934-2000), 20th century author and environmental health advocate, was born at home in Brooklyn, New York on July 9, 1934. He was the youngest child of Eustace A. Dixon, a native of Jamaica and Beulah Talbot, a native of Bermuda. | male | 1934-07-09 | 2000 | Brooklyn | writer | Q63825506 | |
61 | Fillmore Freeman | chemistry professor | male | 1936-04 | Lexington | chemist | Q112579756 | ||
62 | Fitzgerald Redd Beaver | African American media entrepreneur (1922–1992), founder of black Seattle newspaper The Facts | male | 1922-01-18 | 1992-01-01 | Martinsville | newspaper proprietor | Q63825395 | |
63 | Forrest Oran Wiggins | African American philosopher (1907-1982), the first African American to teach at University of Minnesota | male | 1907 | 1982 | Vincennes | academic philosopher |
Q115098712 | |
64 | Frederick D. Stubbs | surgeon (1906-1947) | male | 1906-03-16 | 1947-02-09 | surgeon | Q64596802 | ||
65 | Frederick Flemister | painter | male | 1917-02-05 | 1976-02-29 | Jackson | painter soldier |
Q65658684 | |
66 | Frederick McDonald Massiah | African American civil engineer and construction contractor (1886–1975) | male | 1886 | 1975 | civil engineer building contractor |
Q115098306 | ||
67 | Garry C. Dean | (?- ) American Air Force Major General, Oregon’s first African American two-star | male | air force officer | Q115098731 | ||||
68 | George B. Anderson | African American jockey | male | jockey | Q115413997 | ||||
69 | George Goldsby | (1843-1922) veteran of the Union Army and a sergeant in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry (“buffalo soldiers”) | male | 1843 | 1922 | soldier | Q115120277 | ||
70 | George Henry Brown, Jr. | American judge (1939- ), the first African American appointed to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court | male | 1939-07-16 | judge | Q115145768 | |||
71 | George S. Jeffrey | (1830-1906) barber, orator, and post-reconstruction civil rights leader, one of the most important African American political figures in late 19th Century Connecticut | male | 1830 | 1906 | barber community leader |
Q98529852 | ||
72 | Gilbert Haven Jones | African American philosopher and psychologist | male | 1881-08-21 | 1966 | Fort Motte | philosopher psychologist |
Q63430510 | |
73 | Gordon Alexander McHenry | engineer (1921-2001) | male | 1921-03-06 | 2001-05-19 | Tyler | engineer | Q104889500 | |
74 | Gregory Gunn | African American man (1958-2016) shot dead by a Montgomery, Alabama police officer in front of his home | male | 1958 | 2016-02-25 | Q116360118 | |||
75 | Hale Giddings Parker | American lawyer and political activist | male | 1851 | 1925 | Ripley | lawyer | Q104193166 | |
76 | Hamel Hartford Brookins | American minister, civil rights activist and bishop (1926 – ) | male | 1926 | Christian minister civil rights advocate |
Q115462076 | |||
77 | Harold M. Kingsley | American Congregational minister and political activist | male | 1887 | 1970 | Mobile | Christian minister activist |
Q115977973 | |
78 | Harvey Clarence Russell, Jr. | (1918-1998) In the post-World War II years Harvey Clarence Russell, Jr. paved the way for African American businessmen in corporate America. As one of the first black executives for a major American company, Russell made a name as a trailblazer an | male | 1918 | 1998 | Louisville | business executive | Q98531090 | |
79 | Henry Binga Dismond | American athlete, medical device inventor, pioneering physician and poet (1891-1956) | male | 1891-12-27 | 1956 | Richmond | athlete inventor physician poet |
Q115664930 | |
80 | Henry Glover | (1974-2005) African American resident of Algiers, New Orleans murdered by a New Orleans Police officer | male | 1974 | 2005-09-02 | Q115452234 | |||
81 | Henry Wadsworth McGee Sr. | first African American Postmaster of a major postal facility (1910-2000) | male | 1910 | 2000-03-18 | Hillsboro | postmaster | Q116299058 | |
82 | Homer L. Garrott | first African American California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer (1915-1998) | male | 1915 | 1998 | Los Angeles | police officer | Q115095316 | |
83 | Honorae Alfred Glascor | American judge (1914-2011) one of Franklin County, Ohio’s first African American judges | male | 1914-01-15 | 2011-10-20 | Augusta | judge | Q98534407 | |
84 | Howard Venable | ophthalmologist (1913-1998) | male | 1913-01-27 | 1998-08-08 | Windsor | ophthalmologist | Q98583242 | |
85 | Hylan Garnet Lewis | American sociologist | male | 1911-04-04 | 2000-03-08 | Washington, D.C. | sociologist professor |
Q65658495 | |
86 | Iman Kerigo | Norwegian beauty contestant, the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss Norway in 2010 | female | 1992 | Kenya | beauty pageant contestant | Q115647482 | ||
87 | Ira B. Bryant, Jr. | educator, author, researcher and administrator | male | 1904-10-18 | 1989-12-16 | Crockett | educator writer researcher administrator |
Q64826694 | |
88 | Irvin Hicks | American ambassador (1938- ) | male | 1938-03-16 | Baltimore | ambassador | Q116679343 | ||
89 | Isaac Dickerson | American singer and preacher (1850/1852–1900) | male | 1852 | 1900 | singer preacher |
Q18529166 | ||
90 | Ivan J. Houston | American businessman and author | male | 1925-06-15 | 2020-03-01 | Los Angeles | businessperson writer |
Q105697016 | |
91 | Ivanhoe Donaldson | American civil rights activist (1941–2016), one of the leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | male | 1941-10-17 | 2016-04-03 | Harlem | activist civil rights advocate |
Q63823813 | |
92 | J. R. Todd | American drag racer and crew chief | male | 1981-12-16 | Lawrenceburg | racing automobile driver | Q98583199 | ||
93 | Jack Turner | 1840?–19 August 1882 , political activist and party organizer, martyr and lynching victim | male | 1882-08-19 | event producer politician |
Q63166276 | |||
94 | Jackson L. Davis III | US military officer, Brigadier General in the Air National Guard (1944- ) | male | 1944 | military officer | Q115115038 | |||
95 | Jacob Clement White Sr | Philadelphia entrepreneur and abolitionist (1806–1872) | male | 1806-03 | 1872 | Philadelphia | entrepreneur abolitionist |
Q116677373 | |
96 | James Albert Jackson | American critic, reporter, and editor | male | 1878-06-20 | 1960-11-15 | Bellefonte | editor reporter critic actor |
Q104193089 | |
97 | James B. McMillan | American dentist and civil rights activist (1917-1999) | male | 1917-01-14 | 1999-03-20 | Aberdeen | dentist | Q63433633 | |
98 | James Francis Shober | African American doctor, the first known black physician to practice in North Carolina | male | 1853-08-23 | 1889-01-06 1889-01-01 |
physician | Q113562240 | ||
99 | James Lionel Tolbert | James Lionel Tolbert (1926-2013) is an American civil rights advocate and entertainment attorney. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 26, 1926 to Albert Tolbert and Alice Young Tolbert. His father was a chauffeur and his mo | male | 1926-10-26 | 2013 | New Orleans | lawyer | Q63824444 | |
100 | James P. Thomas | African American barber and businessperson (1827-1913) | male | 1827 | 1913 | Nashville | entrepreneur barber |
Q63430266 | |
101 | James T. Whitehead, Jr. | first African American Lockheed U2 pilot | male | 1934 | Jersey City | Q98583522 | |||
102 | James Tyson Tildon | American chemist (1931-2006) | male | 1931 | 2006 | chemist | Q98531179 | ||
103 | James Williams | fugitive slave in Gold Rush California and autobiographical writer (1825–after 1873) | male | 1825-04-01 | Elkton | writer | Q116603575 | ||
104 | Jesse L. Douglas Sr. | American minister, civil rights activist and vocalist (1930- ) | male | 1930-08-19 | New Orleans | Christian minister civil rights advocate singer |
Q116676931 | ||
105 | Jocko Graves | African American boy and American Revolutionary War soldier, said to be the inspiration for the "lawn jockey" | male | 1764 | 1776 | soldier | Q63823690 | ||
106 | Jocques Clemmons | (1985-2017) African American shot dead by white Nashville, Tennessee police officer Joshua Lippert | male | 1985-03-30 | 2017-02-10 | Nashville | Q115452608 | ||
107 | Joe Travis | enslaved person, survivor of the Battle of Alamo (c.1815- ?) | male | 1815 | Mount Sterling | Q116615564 | |||
108 | John Brown | (1830-1900) Born into slavery about January 1830, John Brown was owned by a leading Southampton County, Virginia planter named Robert Ridley. When Ridley died in 1852, Brown’s wife (whose name is unknown), two daughters and one brother were sold an | male | 1830 | 1900 | Q98583239 | |||
109 | John Campbell Dancy Jr. | 1888-1968 , Detroit Urban League executive director | male | 1888 | 1968 1968-09-10 |
executive | Q55720790 | ||
110 | John Henry Jordan | American physician (1870-1912), the first black doctor in Coweta County, Georgia | male | 1870-03-11 | 1912 | Troup County | physician | Q116678620 | |
111 | John Henry Smythe | Jurist and RAF Flight Lieutenant (1915-1996) | male | 1915-06-30 | 1996-07-09 | Freetown | navigator barrister |
Q63797073 | |
112 | John Henry “Doc” Hamilton | (1891-1942) Doc Hamilton, born John Henry Hamilton in 1891, was a famous Seattle prohibition-era club owner. Originally from West Point, Mississippi, he moved to Seattle at the age of 23. Hamilton served in World War I in the famous 92nd infantry div | male | 1891 | 1942 | West Point | nightclub owner | Q115098615 | |
113 | John K. Haynes, Jr. | American molecular biologist | male | 1943-10-30 | Monroe | molecular biologist | Q64513831 | ||
114 | John Lee Love | African American inventor, inventor of the “Love Sharpener” hand-cranked pencil sharpener | male | 1889 | 1931 | inventor | Q21965926 | ||
115 | John Melvin Jones | American diplomat (1944-), appointed U.S. Ambassador to Guyana in 2008 | male | 1944 | Detroit | diplomat | Q115497501 | ||
116 | John N. Conna | (1836-1921) John Newington Conna was a pivotal figure in the early history and development of Washington State. Born enslaved near San Augustine, Texas in 1836, Conna was a free man by the time of the Civil War because he served in the 1st Louisiana | male | 1836 | 1921 | Q98529425 | |||
117 | John Ralph Lyons | American soldier and barber (1888-1941) | male | 1888-02-22 | 1941-03-16 | Lewistown | soldier barber |
Q115990022 | |
118 | John Thomas King | African American architect; born in Girard (now Phenix City), Alabama. Son of Horace King. (1846–1926) | male | 1846 | 1926 | Girard | architect | Q111685991 | |
119 | John Wallace | (1925-1992) Medical researcher John Wallace was born March 8, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Howard University in 1947 with an honors bachelors in zoology. Originally, he was going to enroll at a medical student at Meharry Medical Co | male | 1925 | 1992 | Q98531136 | |||
120 | John William | French singer | male | 1922-10-09 | 2011-01-08 | Grand-Bassam Ivory Coast |
singer | ![]() |
Q3182748 |
121 | Johnny Robinson | sixteen-year-old African-American man (1947-1963), shot and killed by Birmingham, Alabama police officer Jack Parker on September 15, 1963 | male | 1947 | 1963-09-15 | Q115977969 | |||
122 | Jordan Russell Davis | (1995-2012) murder victim | male | 1995 | 2012 | Q102117706 | |||
123 | Joseph Charles Jenkins | American naval officer (1914-1959), the first African American naval officer | male | 1914 | 1959 | Detroit | naval officer | Q115098122 | |
124 | Joseph Huggins | American diplomat (1951- ), Ambassador to Botswana | male | 1951 | diplomat | Q115098309 | |||
125 | Joseph S. Himes | American sociologist | male | 1908 | 1992 | United States of America | sociologist university teacher |
Q112545452 | |
126 | Joseph Savary | Saint-Domingue-born hero at Battle of New Orleans (? — 1800’s) | male | Republique Haiti | soldier | Q116677578 | |||
127 | Josephine Ebaugh Jones | American community activist and business executive (1920-2017), who may have been the first black woman in management at a Fortune 500 company | female | 1920-07-30 | 2017-12-10 | Cross Hill | community organizer business executive |
Q98531115 | |
128 | Joshua Rose | American local politician (1906-1987), first black city councilman in Oakland, California | male | 1906-09-11 | 1987 | Lexington | local politician | Q115496344 | |
129 | Juan Beltrán de Magaña | black conquistador of Chile | male | 1537 | 1578 | Sigüenza | conquistador page |
Q5947901 | |
130 | Julia Jacobs | (1874-1960) Julia Jacobs was an important culture bearer for the Suquamish Tribe, now located on the Port Madison Indian Reservation, in Washington State. Although Chief Seattle(Sealth) for whom the city of Seattle is named, is the most famous memb | female | 1874 | 1960 | Q98534489 | |||
131 | Katie Booth | (1907–2005) African American biomedical chemist and community activist. Born , to Joseph Patterson and Ida Coffye. She attended a one room scho | female | 1907-05-23 | 2005 | Gulfport | biochemist activist |
Q63823968 | |
132 | Keith Lamont Scott | human being who was the victim of police violence in the United States | male | 1973-02-03 | 2016-09-20 | Charleston | security guard | Q101423773 | |
133 | Kenia Martinez | Honduran beauty queen (1988– ), Miss Universe Honduras in 2010 | female | 1988 | beauty queen | Q115988655 | |||
134 | King Daniel Ganaway | American photographer (1882–1944) | male | 1882-10-22 | 1944-03-16 | Rutherford County | photographer | Q109653277 | |
135 | Kirke Smith | American school superintendent and ordained minister (1865-1935) | male | 1865-07-22 | 1935 | Montgomery County | school superintendent Christian minister |
Q98529850 | |
136 | Kiwane Albert Carrington | victim of 2009 shooting by police | male | 1994-07-14 | 2009-10-09 | Champaign | Q65658978 | ||
137 | La David Terrence Johnson | African American Army Sergeant and vehicle mechanic (1992-2017), killed in the Tongo Tongo Ambush on October 4, 2017 | male | 1992 | 2017-10-04 | soldier mechanic |
Q98583504 | ||
138 | Larry R. Jordan | American army officer and businessman (1946-) | male | 1946-02-07 | Kansas City | military officer businessperson |
Q115122405 | ||
139 | Lasker Bell | television and radio host | male | 1928-05-21 | 2016-09-12 | Homer | television presenter radio personality sharecropper |
Q115220243 | |
140 | Lee Frank Hagan | American professor and academic administrator (1945-1986) | male | 1945-07-28 | 1986 | Brunswick | professor academic administrator |
Q98531892 | |
141 | Leonard H. O. Spearman | (1929-2008) U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda and Lesotho. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Spearman was born July 8, 1929. | male | 1929-07-08 | 2008 | Tallahassee | diplomat | Q115098310 | |
142 | Leone Jacovacci | Italian boxer | male | 1902-04-19 | 1983-11-16 | Sanza Pombo | boxer | Q3830525 | |
143 | Leslie Brennan Rout, Jr. | (1935-1987) Latin American history professor, jazz musician, and author | male | 1935-02-26 | 1987 | musician historian |
Q115097707 | ||
144 | Lily Golden | Russian historian (1934-2010) | female | 1934-07-18 | 2010-12-06 | Tashkent | scientist | ![]() |
Q42558760 |
145 | Livingston Wingate | (1915-1995) Livingston Leroy Wingate was a Harlem civic leader and a state supreme court judge in Manhattan, New York. Wingate was born on September 2, 1915 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, a small town of two thousand residents. Wingate lived | male | 1915-09-02 | 1995 | Timmonsville | judge | Q98530584 | |
146 | Lois Jean White | first African American President of the National Parent Teacher Association (born 1938) | female | 1938-03-21 | Nashville | flautist volunteer |
Q115668792 | ||
147 | Lonnie E. Smith | American dentist and civil rights activist | male | 1901 | 1971-03-06 | Yoakum | dentist civil rights advocate |
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Q104203653 |
148 | Louis E. Sturns | American judge (1949- ), the first African American to serve on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals | male | 1949-08-06 | Henderson | judge | Q115122825 | ||
149 | Louisa Burr | daughter of Aaron Burr (178_-1878) | female | 170s | 1878 | Q112239632 | |||
150 | Lucia Lynn Moses | American actress (1908-1984) | female | 1908-12-23 | 1984 | Washington, D.C. | actor | Q63381148 | |
151 | Luther Ambrose Goodwin | American airman, civil rights activist, and attorney (1920-1982) | male | 1920-04-17 | 1982 | Jacksonville | airman civil rights advocate lawyer |
Q115464139 | |
152 | Lutrelle Horne | American producer (193?- ), who worked for Children’s Television Workshop (now Sesame Shop) | male | Newport News | television producer | Q115098015 | |||
153 | Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr. | American historian, professor, publisher, and academic administrator (1943-2015) | male | 1943-07-04 | 2015-10-11 | Norfolk | historian | Q63807180 | |
154 | Manuel Cuesta Morúa | Cuban dissident leader, scholar and activist | male | 1962-12-31 | Havana | scholar activist |
Q97596180 | ||
155 | Marcia A. Santacruz Palacios | human rights activist and political scientist (1977–) | female | 1977 | activist political scientist |
Q116365324 | |||
156 | Marion Antoinette Richards Myles | scientist with expertise in plant physiology (1917-1969) | female | 1917 | 1969-10-18 | Philadelphia | scientist | Q98583515 | |
157 | Martín Morúa Delgado | Cuban writer and politician | male | 1856 1857 |
1910 | writer politician |
Q63786708 | ||
158 | Marva Weatherborn | Guatemalan beauty pageant contestant, the first black Miss Guatemala and 2004 Miss Universe contestant | female | 1983-06-02 | Puerto Barrios | beauty pageant contestant beauty queen |
Q63797083 | ||
159 | Marva Wright Urena | Costa Rican beauty pageant contestant, the first Miss Costa Rica of African ancestry (1986-) | female | 1986 | beauty pageant contestant | Q63806630 | |||
160 | Marvin Ellison | American business executive and CEO of Lowe's | male | 1966 | Haywood County | chief executive officer | Q22279080 | ||
161 | Mary Elizabeth Williams | American singer | female | 1977 | Philadelphia | opera singer | Q51841730 | ||
162 | Mary Turner | American murder victim | female | 1899 | 1918-05-19 | Q10327046 | |||
163 | Matthew Cherry | American inventor (1834- ?), inventor of the tricycle | male | 1834-02-05 | Washington, D.C. | Q115122382 | |||
164 | Michael R. Hollis | (1953–2012) Atlanta attorney and founder in 1984 of one of the earliest black-owned airlines, Air Atlanta | male | 1953-10-22 | 2012 | businessperson | Q115098143 | ||
165 | Michael Stewart | American graffiti artist (1958-1983) | male | 1958-05-09 | 1983-09-28 | Brooklyn | graffiti artist | Q6834629 | |
166 | Midian Othello Bousfield | American physician and businessperson (1885-1948) | male | 1885-08-22 | 1948 | Tipton | physician businessperson |
Q55720562 | |
167 | Miles K. Davis | African American educator (1960-), president of Linfield College | male | 1960 | Philadelphia | educator academic administrator |
Q115122370 | ||
168 | Miles Mark Fisher | American historian, educator and clergyman | male | 1899 | 1970 | historian educator Christian cleric |
Q94368045 | ||
169 | Mingo Sanders | First Sergeant Mingo Sanders (1857-1929) is best known as one of the leading figures in the Brownsville Affray in Brownsville, Texas in 1906. Sanders was a career soldier. | male | 1857 | 1929 | soldier | Q63824542 | ||
170 | Myles Anderson Paige | American judge (1898-1983), the first African American to be appointed a New York City Criminal Court Judge | male | 1898-07-18 | 1983 | Montgomery | judge | Q115664952 | |
171 | Nathan Wright | American activist and Black Power advocate (1923-2005) | male | 1923-08-05 | 2005 | Shreveport | activist | Q115497837 | |
172 | Ned Coll | (1940- ) Edward T. “Ned” Coll is a civil rights activist and one time (1972) presidential candidate from Connecticut known for taking on the privatized and segregated beaches along the Connecticut coast in the 1970s. Born in 1940, he gre | male | 1940 | civil rights advocate | Q98534664 | |||
173 | Nedd James Johnson, Sr. | (1960- ) New Jersey educator | male | 1960-03-01 | educator | Q115114914 | |||
174 | Orlando Ashford | American businessman (1968– ), president of Holland America Line | male | 1968 | Bangor | businessperson | Q116615799 | ||
175 | Orlando Barlow | victim of 2003 police shooting | male | 1974 | 2003-02-28 | Q65658816 | |||
176 | Oscar W. Holden, Jr. | (1887-1969) Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians. Holden was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887. Before moving to Chicago, Illinois to escape from th | male | 1887 | 1969 | Nashville | jazz musician | Q115098575 | |
177 | Owen Monconduit | American army officer (1961- ), the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Louisiana National Guard | male | 1961 | Pineville | military officer | Q115243953 | ||
178 | Peter Davis | American music teacher (1887?-1971), music teacher of Louis Armstrong | male | 180s | 1971 | New Orleans | music educator | Q116601636 | |
179 | Peter Hill | African American clockmaker | male | 1767-07-19 | 1820-12 | Burlington Township | clockmaker handicrafter |
Q89583345 | |
180 | Petra Hoost | first Afro-Dutch woman to win the Miss Netherlands pageant in 1996 | female | 1976-01-16 | Q121302241 | ||||
181 | Pettis Perry | prominent African-American Communist party leader (1897-1965) | male | 1897 | 1965 | political activist | Q62472084 | ||
182 | Phillip O. Crews | chemist | male | 1943 | chemist university teacher |
Q67481740 | |||
183 | Pierre Réjon | France's first black pilot | male | 1895-06-29 | 1920-08-15 | Martinique | aircraft pilot | ![]() |
Q63797036 |
184 | Preston Wilcox | human rights activist and professor (1923-2006) | male | 1923 | 2006-08-12 | professor human rights activist |
Q63381202 | ||
185 | Prince Mortimer | 1724-1834 , slave and prisoner | male | 1724 | 1834-03-11 | Q62141686 | |||
186 | Ralph Melvin Wimbish | (1922-1967) St. Petersburg, Florida-based African American physician | male | 1922 | 1967 | physician | Q115120333 | ||
187 | Ramón Durem | (1915-1963) Spanish Civil War veteran and militant poet | male | 1915 | 1963 | Seattle | poet | Q115098403 | |
188 | Raymond Harold Boone | Virginia journalist (1938–2014) | male | 1938-02-02 | 2014 | Suffolk | journalist | Q116676880 | |
189 | Rayshard Brooks | American man shot dead in 2020 by police in Atlanta, Georgia, United States | male | 1993-01-31 | 2020-06-12 | ![]() |
Q96316275 | ||
190 | Reginald Doucet | African American person killed due to interaction with a California Law Enforcement Agency | male | 1985-06-03 | 2011-01-14 | Prunedale | Q115452359 | ||
191 | Renty B. Franklin | physiologist | male | 1945-09-02 | Birmingham | physiologist | Q64513729 | ||
192 | Reynaldo Cuevas | (1992-2012) grocery worker shot dead by an NYPD officer after an armed robbery at the grocery where he worked | male | 1992-01-06 | 2012 | Dominican Republic | Q116322068 | ||
193 | Richard I. McKinney | (born 1906) | male | 1906 | 2005 | Q63381168 | |||
194 | Richard Lee Davis | American historian of China (born 1951?) | male | 1951 | historian | Q115645165 | |||
195 | Richard Williams | African American emigrant to the USSR | male | Q98583514 | |||||
196 | Robert Ambrose Thornton | American physicist and university administrator (1902-1982) | male | 1902-05-06 | 1982 | Houston | physicist academic administrator |
Q115497759 | |
197 | Robert Bogle | African American caterer in Philadelphia (1774-1848) | male | 1774 | 1848 | cook | Q115413909 | ||
198 | Robert C. Perry | American diplomat and ambassador | male | 1945 | Durham | diplomat | Q64826736 | ||
199 | Robert Earl Gray | (1941-2011) Lieutenant General Robert Earl Gray was the first African American to become the Commanding General of the United States Army Signal Corps and the first African American Commander of Fort Gordon, Georgia, which conducts advanced traini | male | 1941 | 2011 | soldier | Q63807062 | ||
200 | Robert Hickman | American Reverend, founder of Pilgrim Baptist Church | male | 1831 | 1900-02-06 | Missouri | pastor | ![]() |
Q21554170 |
201 | Robert Kent Trench | botanist | male | 1940 | botanist | Q21610947 | |||
202 | Robert Louis Shepard | American author and chemist (1947- ) | male | 1947-12-25 | Raleigh | chemist writer |
Q115145733 | ||
203 | Roger Sauvage | (1917-1977) French aviator | male | 1917-03-26 | 1977-09-26 | 20th arrondissement of Paris | aircraft pilot | Q3439445 | |
204 | Ronald Waters | American political scientist and civil rights activist (1938-2010) | male | 1938-07-20 | 2010 | Wichita | political scientist civil rights advocate |
Q116677396 | |
205 | Ruffin Bridgeforth | president of the Genesis Group and priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1923–1997) | male | 1923-03-18 | 1997 | Melville | priest | Q115098290 | |
206 | Rufus Smith | American military officer (19?- ), the first African American to be appointed a General in the Ohio National Guard | male | military officer | Q115145848 | ||||
207 | Sait Sökmen | Afro-Turkish choreographer, dancer, instructor, and talent agent | male | 1942 | choreographer | Q6087164 | |||
208 | Sambo Anderson | slave on George Washington's Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon | male | 1845-02-20 | Q56416058 | ||||
209 | Samuel Bruce | African American airman in the 99th Pursuit Squadron (1915–1944) | male | 1915-12-07 | 1944-01-27 | Houston | airman | Q116678637 | |
210 | Samuel Clifford Adams Jr. | American development specialist and diplomat | male | 1920-08-15 | 2001-08-02 | Waco | diplomat | Q28843744 | |
211 | Samuel Eugene Kelly | American soldier and educator (1926-2009) | male | 1926-01-26 | 2009 | Greenwich | soldier educator |
Q116679863 | |
212 | Samuel Robert Cassius | born 1853; died 1931 | male | 1853 | 1931 1931-08-10 |
opinion journalist Four Evangelists |
Q63409963 | ||
213 | Sean Bell | African American man shot and killed by NYPD police officers | male | 1983-05-18 | 2006-11-25 | electrician | Q1363921 | ||
214 | Sebastián Rodríguez Brito | (c.1642-c.1717) Native of West Africa, Sebastian Rodríguez Brito was one of a number of black freemen to join the ranks of the Spanish military during the time of the colonization of what is to | male | soldier | Q63770306 | ||||
215 | Shantel Davis | (1989-2012) African-American woman fatally shot by NYPD officer Phil Atkins | female | 1989 | 2012-06-14 | Q115452168 | |||
216 | Sharmel Edwards | African-American woman (1962-2012), fatally shot by five Las Vegas, Nevada police officers on April 21, 2012 | female | 1962 | 2012-04-21 | Q98583508 | |||
217 | Shereese Francis | American woman (1982-2012) suffocated and murdered in 2012 by four New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in her Rochdale, Queen family home | female | 1982 | 2012 | Q115145860 | |||
218 | Simeon Lewis Carson | (1882-1954) Dr. Simeon Lewis Carson, a late-19th and early-20th century black physician, would be most known for being one of the first surgeons within Washington, D.C. to use spinal anesthesia during surgery. However, he is also renowned for his | male | 1882 | 1954 | physician | Q98534661 | ||
219 | Solomon Melvin Coles | American minister, educator, and community leader (1844-1924) | male | 1844 | 1924 | Virginia | Christian minister educator community leader |
Q116360824 | |
220 | Sylvanus Alexander Tyler Sr. | American mathematician and biostatistician (1914-1986) | male | 1914-08-21 | 1986 | mathematician biostatistician |
Q115687439 | ||
221 | Sylvanus Smith | (1831–1911) free black Brooklynite who promoted and protected racial equality, business ownership, and property development | male | 1831 | 1911-09-17 | businessperson community leader farmer |
Q115098298 | ||
222 | Sylville Smith | African American man (1993-2016) shot dead by Dominique Heaggan-Brown, an African-American police officer in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Police Department | male | 1993-04-11 | 2016-08-13 | Milwaukee | Q98583502 | ||
223 | T. Arnold Hill | American activist (1888-1947), early leader of the National Urban League | male | 1888 | 1947 | Richmond | activist | Q94280484 | |
224 | Tamon Robinson | (1985-2012) African American man killed by two unnamed NYPD officers at the Bayview Housing Project in Canarsie, Brooklyn | male | 1985 | 2012-04-12 | Q115452092 | |||
225 | Tarika Wilsonc | African-American woman (1981-2008), fatally shot by Lima, Ohio, police officer Joseph Chavalia | female | 1981 | 2008-01-04 | Q115145887 | |||
226 | Tawana Brawley | American nurse who made rape allegations in 1987 | female | 1971-12-15 | nurse | Q65658806 | |||
227 | Thomas Calhoun Walker | American teacher, lawyer, and government official (1862-1953) | male | 1862 | 1953 | teacher lawyer civil servant |
Q63409980 | ||
228 | Thomas Detter | African-American writer, activist, minister, doctor, and businessman (c.1829 - 1891) | male | 1821 | Christian minister activist businessperson physician |
Q93096283 | |||
229 | Thomas Molyneux | African American boxer (1784–1818) | male | 1784 | 1818 | boxer | Q115461977 | ||
230 | Timothy DeWayne Thomas, Jr. | unarmed African American man who was killed by the Cincinnati Police Department | male | 1981-07-25 | 2001-04-07 | Cincinnati | Q104203608 | ||
231 | Timothy Russell | Afro-American male who was a victim of police violence in the United States | male | 1968-12-09 | 2012-11-29 | Cleveland | Q105596484 | ||
232 | Tomie Louis Gaines | African American soldier, truck driver and painter (1922–2016), who served in the early twentieth century with the last of the Buffalo Soldiers | male | 1922-11-03 | 2016 | Hartwell | soldier truck driver painter |
Q115098293 | |
233 | Toussaint Tourgee Tildon | 1893-1964 , physician and psychiatrist | male | 1893-04-05 | 1964 | psychiatrist physician |
Q55720064 | ||
234 | Vasco De Gama Hale | American educator, blinded veterans’ association organizer, and NAACP official (1915-2002) | male | 1915-02-16 | 2002 | Crawford | educator activist |
Q115097733 | |
235 | Virgil Trice | African American scientist at Argonne Lab | male | 1926-02-03 | 1997-10-31 | Indianapolis | scientist | ![]() |
Q96337278 |
236 | Vivian O. Lee | (1938- ) Vivian O’Dell Lee, a native of Spring, Texas, is the youngest child of Alvirita and Arthur Booker. She was born on January 28, 1938. Growing up, Lee traveled extensively with her mother and stepfather, US Master Sergeant Frank Little, to A | female | 1938-01-28 | Spring | nurse | Q98534229 | ||
237 | Véronique de la Cruz | French model | female | 1974-11-03 | Saint-François | model beauty pageant contestant |
Q2367597 | ||
238 | W. Augustus Low | American author, historian (1916–1988) | male | 1916-05-17 | 1988-04-01 | writer historian professor |
Q116980065 | ||
239 | Wabeladio Payi | Congolese teacher | male | 1957-01-15 | 2013-04-04 | Ngombe Lutete | teacher | Q16269525 | |
240 | Walter F. Anderson | American classical pianist | 1915-05-12 | 2003-11-24 | Zanesville | classical pianist organist composer jazz musician community organizer academician |
Q125709964 | ||
241 | Walter Fitzgerald Jerrick | Walter Fitzgerald Jerrick (1894-1953), prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania physician and founder of The Pyramid Club was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, on March 21, 1894. He attended the public schools there unt | male | 1894-03-21 | 1953 | physician | Q63825187 | ||
242 | Walter J. Whitfield | American military officer (1948- ), the first African American General in the Army National Guard | male | 1948 | military officer | Q115122477 | |||
243 | Walter L. Wallace | American sociologist | male | 1927 | 2015 | sociologist | Q109833674 | ||
244 | Walter Scott | American man fatally shot in 2015 by police in North Charleston, South Carolina | male | 1965-02-09 | 2015-04-04 | No/unknown value | victim | Q19788938 | |
245 | Warren H. Wheeler | American aviator and businessman (1943– ), owner of Wheeler Flying Service (Wheeler Airlines) | male | 1943-10-01 | Durham | aircraft pilot businessperson |
Q115683972 | ||
246 | Wayne L. Black | Brigadier General and Assistant Adjutant General of the Indiana Army National Guard (1962?- ) | male | military officer | Q115122394 | ||||
247 | Wendell James Allen | victim of 2012 shooting by police officer | male | 1992 | 2012-03-07 | Q65657992 | |||
248 | Willard Johnson Sr. | (1901-1969) Willard Johnson, bacteriologist, science educator, business proprietor, was born in Leavenworth Kansas, the third of the eleven children of Joseph Johnson and Hattie McClanahan. Taught by his high school’s founder, Blanche Kelso Bruce, | male | 1901 | 1969 | Leavenworth | bacteriologist | Q115098681 | |
249 | William G. Mays | American business executive | male | 1946 1945-12-04 |
2014 | Indiana Evansville |
business executive entrepreneur philanthropist community leader |
Q115932536 | |
250 | William Harry Barnes | 1887-1945 , physician and otolaryngologist | male | 1887-04-04 | 1945-01-15 | Philadelphia | otolaryngologist physician |
Q55720056 | |
251 | William Jones | (1918-2009) American soldier and entrepreneur, one of the last Buffalo Soldiers | male | 1918 | 2009 | Jefferson County | soldier | Q115114927 | |
252 | William P. Powell, Jr. | African-American physician | male | 1834 | 1915 | Bedford | physician surgeon |
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Q63101518 |
253 | Wilson “Ducktail” Alexander, Sr. | (1919-1950) US Marine, baseball player and baseball manager | male | 1919 | 1950 | St. Mary Parish | baseball player baseball manager soldier |
Q98532673 |
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