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We do not have a complete or even near complete list of the inductees -- because, astonishingly, their website does not even seem to maintain such a list. So it must remain a mystery who is in this Hall of Fame.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Eddie Anderson
Actor
18-Sep-1905 28-Feb-1977 Rochester on The Jack Benny Show
Josephine Baker
Dancer
3-Jun-1906 12-Apr-1975 Sensual dancer turned WWII spy
Count Basie
Pianist
21-Aug-1904 26-Apr-1984 Big band pianist
Louise Beavers
Actor
8-Mar-1902 26-Oct-1962 She Done Him Wrong
Harry Belafonte
Singer/Songwriter
1-Mar-1927   Calypso singer
Eubie Blake
Jazz Musician
7-Feb-1883 12-Feb-1983 Ragtime jazz pianist
Roscoe Lee Browne
Actor
2-May-1925 11-Apr-2007 Character actor, 1960s to 2000s
Diahann Carroll
Singer
17-Jul-1935   Claudine
Benny Carter
Jazz Musician
8-Aug-1907 12-Jul-2003 Jazz and big bandleader
Rosalind Cash
Actor
31-Dec-1938 31-Oct-1995 The Omega Man
Nat King Cole
Singer
17-Mar-1917 15-Feb-1965 Unforgettable
Dorothy Dandridge
Actor
9-Nov-1922 8-Sep-1965 Carmen Jones
Ossie Davis
Actor
18-Dec-1917 4-Feb-2005 Do The Right Thing
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Singer
8-Dec-1925 16-May-1990 Coolest hepcat in the Rat Pack
Ruby Dee
Actor
27-Oct-1924 12-Jun-2014 The Jackie Robinson Story
Ivan Dixon
Actor
6-Apr-1931 16-Mar-2008 Sgt. Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes
Katherine Dunham
Dancer
22-Jun-1910 21-May-2006 Dunham School of Dance
Duke Ellington
Jazz Musician
29-Apr-1899 24-May-1974 It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Stepin Fetchit
Actor
30-May-1902 19-Nov-1985 Professional black stereotype
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
25-Apr-1917 15-Jun-1996 The First Lady of Jazz
Danny Glover
Actor
22-Jul-1946   Lethal Weapon
Bernie Hamilton
Actor
12-Jun-1928 30-Dec-2008 Capt. Dobey on Starsky and Hutch
Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright
19-May-1930 12-Jan-1965 A Raisin in the Sun
Theresa Harris
Actor
31-Dec-1906 8-Oct-1985 Baby Face
Lena Horne
Singer
30-Jun-1917 9-May-2010 Stormy Weather
Rex Ingram
Film Director
15-Jan-1892 21-Jul-1950 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
James Earl Jones
Actor
17-Jan-1931   Voice of Darth Vader and CNN
Quincy Jones
Music Producer
14-Mar-1933   Musician, Composer, Producer
Eartha Kitt
Singer
17-Jan-1927 25-Dec-2008 Catwoman
Canada Lee
Actor
3-Mar-1907 9-May-1952 Cry, the Beloved Country
Hattie McDaniel
Actor
10-Jun-1893 26-Oct-1952 Mammy in Gone with the Wind
Butterfly McQueen
Actor
7-Jan-1911 22-Dec-1995 Gone with the Wind
Oscar Micheaux
Film/TV Producer
2-Jan-1884 25-Mar-1951 Within Our Gates
Juanita Moore
Actor
19-Oct-1922 31-Dec-2013 Imitation of Life
Fayard Nicholas
Dancer
20-Oct-1914 24-Jan-2006 Tapdancer, The Nicholas Brothers
Harold Nicholas
Dancer
27-Mar-1921 3-Jul-2000 Tapdancer, The Nicholas Brothers
Gordon Parks
Film Director
30-Nov-1912 7-Mar-2006 Shaft
Brock Peters
Actor
2-Jul-1927 23-Aug-2005 To Kill a Mockingbird
Sidney Poitier
Actor
20-Feb-1927   In The Heat Of The Night
Beah Richards
Actor
12-Jul-1920 14-Sep-2000 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Paul Robeson
Singer
9-Apr-1898 23-Jan-1976 20th Century renaissance man
Bill Robinson
Dancer
25-May-1878 25-Nov-1949 Bojangles
Cicely Tyson
Actor
19-Dec-1933   Sounder
Melvin Van Peebles
Film Director
21-Aug-1932   Watermelon Man
Ethel Waters
Singer
31-Oct-1896 1-Sep-1977 Sweet Mama Stringbean
Billy Dee Williams
Actor
6-Apr-1937   Lando Calrissian, Colt-45 malt liquor pitchman


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