Historical Figures
Explore 286 figures from the African American diaspora
10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers
1921 Massacre Survivors
54th Massachusetts Regiment
9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers
A. Philip Randolph
Abraham Lincoln
Absalom Jones
Adam K. Spence
Al Edwards
Alfred Jackson
Alice Walker
Alvin Ailey
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Andraé Crouch
Andrew Goodman
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Angela Davis
Aretha Franklin
Arthur Mitchell
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Askia Mohammed the Great
August Wilson
Barack Obama
Bass Reeves
Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton
Benjamin Butler
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Biddy Mason
Bill Pickett
Billie Holiday
Black Oklahoma Territory settlers
Bobby Seale
Booker T. Washington
Border Ruffians
Bose Ikard
Bryan Stevenson
Buck O'Neil
Buffalo Soldiers
Carter G. Woodson
Catharine Coffin
Chadwick Boseman
Charles H. Wright
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Harrison Mason
Charles Pinckney
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Clementa Pinckney
Coleman Young
Colonel Allen Allensworth
Colonel Benjamin Grierson
Colonel Charles Young
Cool Papa Bell
Coretta Scott King
Crawford Goldsby (Cherokee Bill)
Creek Freedmen settlers
Cudjo Lewis
Cécile Fatiman
Daisy Bates
Daniel 'Chappie' James
Daniel Payne
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster Wallace
Denmark Vesey
Denzel Washington
Diane Nash
Dolley Madison
Dr. Ibrahima Seck
Dr. Margaret Burroughs
Dred Scott
Duke Ellington
Dutty Boukman
Earl Warren
Eldridge Cleaver
Elias Camp Morris
Elijah Muhammad
Eliza Harris (Civil War Nurse)
Elizabeth Freeman
Elizabeth Hemings
Ella Baker
Ella Fitzgerald
Ellen Murray
Emmett Till
Enslaved African Americans
Enslaved Africans of colonial New York
Enslaved laborers
Enslaved people of Whitney Plantation
Enslaved workers of Magnolia Plantation
Erastus Milo Cravath
Ernest Green
Esther A. H. Hopkins
Exoduster settlers
Fannie Lou Hamer
Father Damien
Fatima al-Fihri
Fillmore jazz community
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Five Points community leaders
Four Little Girls
Francisco Menéndez
Fred Hampton
Fred Shuttlesworth
Frederick Dent
Frederick Douglass
Free-Staters
Freedpeople of Houston
Gardner C. Taylor
George Pullman
George Washington
George Washington Carver
Gladys Knight
Gordon Granger
Grant Johnson
Greenwood Business Owners
Greenwood descendants
Gullah Geechee community leaders
Hank Willis Thomas
Harold Washington
Harriet Giles
Harriet Myers
Harriet Scott
Harriet Tubman
Henry Adams
Henry McNeal Turner
Hercules Posey
Howard Dodson
Huey P. Newton
Ida B. Wells
Isaac Jefferson
J.B. Stradford
Jackie Robinson
James Baldwin
James Brown
James Chaney
James Earl Ray
James Farmer
James Forman
James K. Polk
James Madison
James Monroe
James Varick
James Weeks
Jean Baptiste Point DuSable
Jean Rankin
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jermain Loguen
Jo Ann Robinson
John Brown
John Brown (Providence Merchant)
John Cummings
John D. Rockefeller
John Handy
John Hart Crenshaw
John Hope Franklin
John Lewis
John Rankin
Johnson Family
Joseph H. Jackson
Josephine Allensworth
Josh Gibson
Judge Isaac Parker
Judith Jamison
Julia Dent Grant
Julian Bond
Kamala Harris
Karel Shook
Katherine Dunham
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
L. Venchael Booth
Langston Hughes
Laura Towne
Levi Coffin
Lewis Hayden
Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper
Linda Brown
Little Rock Nine
Lloyd Richards
Lott Carey
Louis Armstrong
Madam C.J. Walker
Maggie L. Walker
Malcolm X
Mamie Till-Mobley
Mansa Musa I
Marcus Garvey
Marian Wright Edelman
Martha Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Sr.
Mary Lou Holt
Mary McLeod Bethune
Maya Angelou
Medgar Evers
Michael Jackson
Michael Schwerner
Michelle Obama
Miles Davis
Minnie Evans
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Moses Brown
Mother Marianne Cope
Motown artists
Muhammad Ali
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Nanny of the Maroons
Nat Love
Nat Love (Deadwood Dick)
Nikki Giovanni
Nine Charleston Martyrs
O.W. Gurley
Ona Judge
Orval Faubus
Oscar Stanton DePriest
Paul Cuffee
Paul Jennings
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Robeson
Penn Center founders
Peter Mott
Pierre Bottineau
Prudence Crandall
Pullman Porters
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo
Rachel Jackson
Ralph Abernathy
Reverend Jack Yates
Richard Allen
Richard Henry Boyd
Richard Vanderhorst
Robert Battle
Robert Gould Shaw
Robert Russa Moton
Robert S. Abbott
Robert Smalls
Rosa Parks
Sally Hemings
Samuel C. Tolbert Jr.
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
Sarah Childress Polk
Sarah Vaughan
Satchel Paige
Saunders King
Seminole Negro Indian Scouts
Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque)
Shirley Chisholm
Sojourner Truth
Solomon Northup
Sophia Packard
Spike Lee
Stacey Abrams
Stephen Bishop
Stephen Myers
Sundiata Keita
T.J. Jemison
Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas Garrett
Thomas Jefferson
Thurgood Marshall
Timothy Meaher
Toni Morrison
Toussaint Louverture
Ulysses S. Grant
United States Colored Troops (USCT)
Urban renewal displaced residents
Virginia Johnson
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.R. Hill
Wilbur Wright
Wild Bill Hickok
William "Jerry" Henry
William Augustus Jones Jr.
William Harvey Carney
William Henry Miles
William Jones
William Lee
William Lloyd Garrison
William Payne
William Still
Yaa Asantewaa
Z.T. Fletcher
Zora Neale Hurston
Zumbi