BlackPast.org’s List of the 50 Most Historically Significant African Americans
November 4, 2021
Robert Abbott
Muhammad Ali
Richard Allen
Marian Anderson
Louis Armstrong
James Baldwin
Mary McLeod Bethune
Jim Brown
Shirley Chisholm
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Miles Davis
Frederick Douglass
Charles Drew
W.E.B. DuBois
Duke Ellington
George Floyd
Aretha Franklin
Marcus Garvey
Berry Gordy
Langston Hughes
Jesse Jackson
Michael Jackson
LeBron James
James Weldon Johnson
Robert L. Johnson
Michael Jordan
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Elijah McCoy
Elijah Muhammad
Toni Morrison
Barack Obama
Jesse Owens
Gordon Parks
Rosa Parks
Sidney Poitier
Colin Powell
Paul Robeson
Jackie Robinson
Clarence Thomas
Sojourner Truth
Harriett Tubman
Madam C.J. Walker
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Serena Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Stevie Wonder
Carter G. Woodson