Illustrated Black history: honoring the iconic and the unseen

Kareen Abdul-Jabbar : athlete, author, public speaker

Cato Alexander : mixologist

Jourdan Anderson : rebel

Madeline Anderson : producer, documentarian, director

Maya Angelou : poet, author, activist, professor

Amy Ashwood Garvey : activist

Augusta Braxton Baker : librarian, teacher

James Baldwin : author, essayist, scholar

Edward Bannister : artist

jean-Michel Basquiat : artist

Romare Bearden : artist

1936 Berlin Olympics athletes : athletes

Mary McLeod Bethune : educator, college founder/president

Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Ayometi : Black Lives Matter cofounders, activists

Terence Blanchard : musician

Guion Stewart Bluford : military pilot, astronaut

J. Max Bond Jr. : architect

Bronner Brothers : entrepreneurs

LeRonn P. Brooks : curator, archivist

Ralph Bunche : diplomat

Tarana Burke : activist

Octavia Butler : writer

Cab Calloway : musician

Steve Cannon : writer, publisher, mentor

Johnnie Carr : activist

Terri Lyne Carrington : musician

Ben Carlson : neurosurgeon, politician

Ruth E. Carter : stylist, costume designer

Charleston Caterers : chefs

Leah Chase : chef, restaurateur

Shirley Chisholm : activist, politician

Kathleen Neal Cleaver : activist

Mary Francis Hill Coley : midwife

Kathleen Collins : playwright, writer, filmmaker

John William Coltrane : musician

Claudette Colvin : activist

The Compton Cowboys : athletes

Fanny Jackson Coppin : educator

Hannah Crafts : writer

Celia Cruz : musician

Dorothy Dandridge : actor, performer

Julie Dash : film director

Charles Dawson : artist

Daniel Day : entrepreneur, haberdasher

Roy DeCarava : photographer

Ruby Dee + Ossie Davis : actors, activists

Thornton Dial : artist

Emory Douglas : artist, graphic designer

Frederick Douglass : activist, orator, statesman

Paul Laurence Dunbar : writer, poet

Katherine Dunham : choreographer, dancer

Yla Eason : entrepreneur

Lee Elder : athlete

Francine Everett : actor, performer

Abby Fisher : culinary guru

John Stanley Ford : entrepreneur

Aretha Franklin : musician, singer, songwriter

Lenora Branch Fulani : activist, politician

Althea Gibson : athlete

Eloyce + James Gist : evangelicals, filmmakers

Nathan "Nearest" Green : distiller

Dick Gregory : comedian, writer, performer, activist

Eliza Ann Grier : doctor

Fannie Lou Hamer : activist, organizer

Bethann Hardison : model, agent

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : poet, author, activist

Dorothy Height : activist

James Hemings : chef

Juano Hernandez : actor

Anita Hill : lawyer, professor

Gregory Hines : actor, activist, dancer, performer

bell hooks : writer, activist, professor

Lena Horne : singer, actor

Langston Hughes : writer, poet

Zora Neale Hurston : writer, playwright, anthropologist

Amy Jacques Garvey : activist

Judith Jamison : dancer, choreographer, executive director

Baby Esther Jones : performer

Bill T. Jones : dancer, choreographer, executive director

Grace Jones : actor, performer, model

Jackie Joyner-Kersee : athlete

Colin Kaepernick : athlete, activist

Henrietta Lacks : medical pioneer

Jacob Lawrence : artist

Edmonia Lewis : sculptor

Edna Lewis : culinary guru

John Lewis : activist, politician

Alain LeRoy Locke : writer, activist, editor

Audre Lorde : poet

Haki Madhubuti : poet

Annie Turnbo Malone : entrepreneur

54th Massechusetts Infantry : soldiers

Oscar Micheaux : writer, producer

Scipio Moorhead : artist

Toni Morrison : author, editor

Walter Mosley : author

Archibald Motley Jr. : artist

Diane Nash : activist

Nicholas Brothers : choreographers, dancers

Satchel Paige : athlete

Suzan-Lori Parks : playwright

Eva Jefferson Paterson : civil rights attorney, activist

Leah Penniman : farmer, food-justice activist

Renee Powell : athlete

Harriet Powers : textile artist

Richard Pryor : comedian, performer

Dee Rees : filmmaker

Bass Reeves : lawman

Faith Ringgold : artist

Minnie Riperton ; singer, performer

Paul Robeson : actor, performer, activist

David Ruggles : abolitionist

Patrice Rushen : musician, composer, musical director

Jason Samuels Smith : dancer

Augusta Savage : sculptor

Gil Scott-Heron : musician, activist

Amy Sherald : artist

Nina Simone : musician, performer, songwriter

Norma Merrick Sklarek : architect

Moneta Sleet Jr. : photographer

Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor : culinary guru

Robert F. Smith : entrepreneur, philanthropist

Andre Leon Talley : fashion muse

Robert Robinson Taylor : architect

Mary Church Terrell : activist

Sister Rosetta Tharpe : musician

Mickalene Thomas : artist

Vivien Thomas : medical pioneer, surgeon

Toni Tipton-Martin : culinary guru

Kwame Ture : organizer, activist

Morrie Turner : artist, cartoonist

Melvin Van Peebles : writer, filmmaker, producer

Sarah Vaughan : singer performer

Madam C.J. Walker : entrepreneur

Maggie Lena Walker : activist, businesswoman

Carrie Mae Weems : photographer

Ida B. Wells : journalist, publisher, activist

Charles White : artist

Maurice White : musician

Clarence "Cap" Wigington : architect

Raven Wilkinson : dancer

George Washington Williams : historian, soldier, minister

Marie Selika Williams : opera singer

Paul Revere Williams : architect

Bradford Young : cinematographer, director

Essayists. Marvin K. White ; Emil Wilbekin ; Bryant Terry ; Patrice Peck ; Oriana Koren.