James Forten, entrepreneur
James McCune Smith, physician
Allen Allensworth, town founder
Sissieretta Jones, concert singer
Maggie Lena Walker, bank founder
Charlie Wiggins, race car driver
Eugene Bullard, combat pilot
Oscar Micheaux, filmmaker
Sadie Tanner, Mossell Alexander, economist & attorney
Paul R. Williams, architect
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, mathematician.
