National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Founded in 1909 as the National Negro Committee, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villiard, and William English Walling.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Hugh J. Addonizio |
Politician |
31-Jan-1914 |
2-Feb-1981 |
Mayor of Newark, 1962-70 |
| Angela Alioto |
Politician |
20-Oct-1949 |
|
San Francisco politician and pundit |
| Reuben V. Anderson |
Attorney |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
Partner, Phelps Dunbar |
| Dennis Archer |
Politician |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Mayor of Detroit, 1994-2001 |
| Mario L. Baeza |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Baeza & Co. |
| Frank Ballance |
Politician |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
Congressman from North Carolina, 2003-04 |
| Andrew C. Barrett |
Government |
14-Apr-1942 |
|
FCC Commissioner, 1989-96 |
| Marion Barry |
Politician |
6-Mar-1936 |
22-Nov-2014 |
Twice Mayor of Washington, DC |
| Mary McLeod Bethune |
Educator |
10-Jul-1875 |
18-May-1955 |
Black activist and educator |
| Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. |
Politician |
4-Feb-1947 |
|
Congressman, Georgia 2nd |
| Kenneth Blackwell |
Government |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
Ohio Secretary of State, 1999-2007 |
| Richard Blumenthal |
Government |
13-Feb-1946 |
|
US Senator from Connecticut |
| Julian Bond |
Activist |
14-Jan-1940 |
15-Aug-2015 |
NAACP Chairman, 1998-2010 |
| Edward Bouchet |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1852 |
28-Oct-1918 |
First African-American PhD |
| Barbara L. Bowles |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
The Kenwood Group |
| Kay Boyle |
Author |
19-Feb-1902 |
27-Dec-1992 |
The Underground Woman |
| Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
Poet |
7-Jun-1917 |
3-Dec-2000 |
Annie Allen |
| Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| Roland W. Burris |
Politician |
8-Aug-1937 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 2009-10 |
| Louis B. Butler, Jr. |
Judge |
15-Feb-1952 |
|
Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court |
| Bob Carr |
Politician |
27-Mar-1943 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1975-95 |
| Linda Chavez |
Activist |
17-Jun-1947 |
|
Neoconservative activist, pundit |
| Erwin Chemerinsky |
Scholar |
14-May-1953 |
|
Legal Scholar |
| Shirley Chisholm |
Politician |
30-Nov-1924 |
1-Jan-2005 |
First black woman elected to US House |
| Kenneth B. Clark |
Psychologist |
14-Jul-1914 |
1-May-2005 |
Studied the effects of prejudice on children |
| Eric L. Clay |
Judge |
18-Jan-1948 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Jim Clyburn |
Politician |
21-Jul-1940 |
|
Congressman, South Carolina 6th |
| William K. Coblentz |
Attorney |
28-Jul-1922 |
13-Sep-2010 |
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass |
| Virgis W. Colbert |
Business |
1939 |
|
EVP at Miller Brewing, 1997-2005 |
| William T. Coleman, Jr. |
Government |
7-Jul-1920 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77 |
| Cardiss Collins |
Politician |
24-Sep-1931 |
2-Feb-2013 |
Congresswoman from Illinois, 1973-97 |
| John Conyers |
Politician |
16-May-1929 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 14th |
| Richard Cordray |
Government |
3-May-1959 |
|
Acting Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| Richard Cardinal Cushing |
Religion |
24-Aug-1895 |
2-Nov-1970 |
Catholic Archbishop of Boston, 1944-70 |
| Clarence Darrow |
Attorney |
18-Apr-1857 |
13-Mar-1938 |
Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side) |
| Hal Daub |
Politician |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Mayor of Omaha, 1995-2001 |
| Danny Davis |
Politician |
6-Sep-1941 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 7th |
| Ossie Davis |
Actor |
18-Dec-1917 |
4-Feb-2005 |
Do The Right Thing |
| Drew S. Days III |
Government |
1941 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1993-96 |
| Ruby Dee |
Actor |
27-Oct-1924 |
12-Jun-2014 |
The Jackie Robinson Story |
| Adrian W. DeWind |
Attorney |
1-Dec-1913 |
7-Aug-2009 |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
| Julian C. Dixon |
Politician |
8-Aug-1934 |
8-Dec-2000 |
Congressman from California, 1979-2000 |
| Robert Drinan |
Politician |
15-Nov-1920 |
28-Jan-2007 |
Jesuit priest, Massachusetts Congressman |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
Sociologist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
| Edward R. Dudley |
Diplomat |
11-Mar-1911 |
8-Feb-2005 |
First Black US Ambassador |
| Marian Wright Edelman |
Activist |
6-Jun-1939 |
|
Founder, Children's Defense Fund |
| Albert Einstein |
Physicist |
14-Mar-1879 |
18-Apr-1955 |
Theory of relativity |
| Charles Evers |
Activist |
11-Sep-1922 |
|
Brother of Medgar Evers |
| Medgar Evers |
Activist |
2-Jul-1925 |
12-Jun-1963 |
Civil rights activist murdered in 1963 |
| Sam Farr |
Politician |
4-Jul-1941 |
|
Congressman, California 17th |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset |
Novelist |
27-Apr-1882 |
30-Apr-1961 |
Comedy: American Style |
| Bob Filner |
Politician |
4-Sep-1942 |
|
Mayor of San Diego, 2012-13 |
| Donald Fowler |
Government |
12-Sep-1935 |
|
DNC chairman, 1995-97 |
| E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociologist |
24-Sep-1894 |
17-May-1962 |
Black Bourgeoisie |
| Jake Gaither |
Football |
11-Apr-1903 |
18-Feb-1994 |
Head Coach, Florida A&M, 1945-69 |
| Patrick R. Gaston |
Business |
5-Aug-1957 |
|
President, Verizon Foundation |
| Kenneth A. Gibson |
Politician |
15-May-1932 |
|
Mayor of Newark, 1970-86 |
| Benjamin A. Gilman |
Politician |
6-Dec-1922 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1973-2003 |
| David Girard-diCarlo |
Lobbyist |
20-Jan-1943 |
|
Lobbyist, US Ambassador to Austria |
| Michael Goldstein |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Toys R Us, 1994-98 |
| Bruce S. Gordon |
Business |
15-Feb-1946 |
|
President of the NAACP, 2005-07 |
| Earl G. Graves |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Black Enterprise magazine |
| Al Green |
Politician |
1-Sep-1947 |
|
Congressman, Texas 9th |
| Roman S. Gribbs |
Politician |
29-Dec-1925 |
|
Mayor of Detroit, 1970-74 |
| Robert P. Griffin |
Politician |
6-Nov-1923 |
16-Apr-2015 |
US Senator from Michigan, 1966-79 |
| Lani Guinier |
Educator |
19-Apr-1950 |
|
The Tyranny of the Majority |
| Fred Hampton, Sr. |
Activist |
30-Aug-1948 |
4-Dec-1969 |
Black Panther leader assassinated by police |
| Conrad K. Harper |
Attorney |
c. 1940 |
|
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett |
| Ann Weaver Hart |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, Temple University |
| Alcee Hastings |
Politician |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Congressman, Florida 20th |
| Wade Henderson |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
Judge |
25-Feb-1928 |
14-Dec-1998 |
Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Barney Hill |
Hoaxer |
20-Jul-1922 |
25-Feb-1969 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
| Betty Hill |
Hoaxer |
28-Jun-1919 |
17-Oct-2004 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
| Eric H. Holder, Jr. |
Government |
21-Jan-1951 |
|
US Attorney General, 2009-15 |
| Benjamin Hooks |
Activist |
31-Jan-1925 |
15-Apr-2010 |
NAACP Director, 1977-92 |
| Harold Ickes |
Government |
15-Mar-1874 |
3-Feb-1952 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46 |
| Maynard Jackson |
Politician |
23-Mar-1938 |
23-Jun-2003 |
First black Mayor of Atlanta |
| Benjamin Todd Jealous |
Activist |
c. 1972 |
|
President of the NAACP |
| Eddie Bernice Johnson |
Politician |
3-Dec-1935 |
|
Congresswoman, Texas 30th |
| James Weldon Johnson |
Author |
17-Jun-1871 |
26-Jun-1938 |
God's Trombones |
| Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Advisor to Bill Clinton |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Marcy Kaptur |
Politician |
17-Jun-1946 |
|
Congresswoman, Ohio 9th |
| Pamela S. Karlan |
Scholar |
1959 |
|
Constitutional and legal scholar |
| Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
| Florence Kelley |
Activist |
12-Sep-1859 |
17-Feb-1932 |
Founder of National Consumers League |
| Marilyn Kelly |
Judge |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court |
| Dale Kildee |
Politician |
16-Sep-1929 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 5th |
| Carolyn Kilpatrick |
Politician |
25-Jun-1945 |
|
Congresswoman from Michigan, 1997-2011 |
| Kwame Kilpatrick |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Mayor of Detroit, 2002-08 |
| Fred Kleisner |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Wyndham International |
| W. H. Knight |
Educator |
c. 1954 |
|
Law Professor, University of Washington |
| Milton R. Konvitz |
Educator |
12-Mar-1908 |
5-Sep-2003 |
Cornell Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations |
| Joanne C. Kozberg |
Administrator |
? |
|
California Strategies |
| Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
| Mel Levine |
Politician |
7-Jun-1943 |
|
Congressman from California, 1983-93 |
| William M. Lewis, Jr. |
Business |
30-Apr-1956 |
|
Co-Chair Investment Banking at Lazard |
| Joseph Lieberman |
Politician |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Former US Senator from Connecticut |
| Rayford W. Logan |
Historian |
7-Jan-1897 |
4-Nov-1982 |
The Negro in American Life and Thought |
| Joseph Lowery |
Activist |
6-Oct-1921 |
|
Co-Founder of the SCLC |
| Conrad L. Mallett, Jr. |
Business |
12-Nov-1953 |
|
Chief Justice of Michigan, 1997-99 |
| Thurgood Marshall |
Judge |
2-Jul-1908 |
24-Jan-1993 |
First black US Supreme Court justice |
| Vilma S. Martinez |
Attorney |
17-Oct-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Argentina |
| Hattie McDaniel |
Actor |
10-Jun-1893 |
26-Oct-1952 |
Mammy in Gone with the Wind |
| Gabrielle K. McDonald |
Judge |
12-Apr-1942 |
|
US District Court Judge, Texas, 1979-88 |
| Cynthia McKinney |
Politician |
17-Mar-1955 |
|
Congresswoman from Georgia, 1993-2003 and 2005-07 |
| Lucia Ames Mead |
Activist |
5-May-1856 |
1-Nov-1936 |
Swords and Ploughshares |
| Kendrick Meek |
Politician |
6-Sep-1966 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 2003-11 |
| Gregory Meeks |
Politician |
25-Sep-1953 |
|
Congressman, New York 6th |
| Kweisi Mfume |
Politician |
24-Oct-1948 |
|
Former Congressman, CEO of the NAACP |
| Juanita Millender-McDonald |
Politician |
7-Sep-1938 |
22-Apr-2007 |
Congresswoman from California, 1996-2007 |
| Gwen Moore |
Politician |
18-Apr-1951 |
|
Congresswoman, Wisconsin 4th |
| Dutch Morial |
Politician |
9-Oct-1929 |
24-Dec-1989 |
Mayor of New Orleans, 1978-86 |
| Dennis Muchmore |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Muchmore Harrington Smalley & Associates |
| James C. Napier |
Government |
9-Jun-1845 |
21-Apr-1940 |
Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank |
| Robert Nix, Jr. |
Judge |
13-Jul-1928 |
23-Aug-2003 |
Pennsylvania Chief Justice, 1984-96 |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton |
Politician |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Congresswoman, Washington DC |
| Charles Ogletree |
Attorney |
31-Dec-1952 |
|
Law professor |
| Major Owens |
Politician |
28-Jun-1936 |
21-Oct-2013 |
Former Congressman from Brooklyn |
| Rod Paige |
Government |
17-Jun-1933 |
|
US Secretary of Education, 2000-04 |
| Dorothy Parker |
Author |
22-Aug-1893 |
7-Jun-1967 |
Constant Reader known for acerbic quips |
| Rosa Parks |
Activist |
4-Feb-1913 |
24-Oct-2005 |
Wouldn't sit in the back of the bus |
| David A. Paterson |
Politician |
20-May-1954 |
|
Governor of New York, 2008-11 |
| Deval Patrick |
Politician |
31-Jul-1956 |
|
Governor of Massachusetts |
| Robert P. Patterson |
Judge |
12-Feb-1891 |
22-Jan-1952 |
US Secretary of War, 1945-47 |
| Donald Payne |
Politician |
16-Jul-1934 |
6-Mar-2012 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1989-2012 |
| Tyler Perry |
Film Director |
13-Sep-1969 |
|
Diary of a Mad Black Woman |
| Ann Petry |
Novelist |
12-Oct-1908 |
28-Apr-1997 |
The Street |
| Reince Priebus |
Government |
18-Mar-1972 |
|
RNC Chairman |
| Peggy A. Quince |
Judge |
3-Jan-1948 |
|
Justice, Florida Supreme Court |
| Nick Rahall |
Politician |
20-May-1949 |
|
Congressman, West Virginia 3rd |
| A. Philip Randolph |
Activist |
15-Apr-1889 |
16-May-1979 |
20th century civil rights leader |
| Gilbert T. Ray |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Partner, O'Melveny and Myers |
| Linda Johnson Rice |
Business |
22-Mar-1958 |
|
CEO of Johnson Publishing |
| Jackie Robinson |
Baseball |
31-Jan-1919 |
24-Oct-1972 |
First negro in the major leagues |
| Ray M. Robinson |
Business |
30-Nov-1947 |
|
Former AT&T executive |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady |
11-Oct-1884 |
7-Nov-1962 |
First Lady under FDR |
| Albert J. Rosenthal |
Educator |
5-Mar-1919 |
17-Mar-2010 |
Dean of Columbia Law School, 1979-84 |
| Julius Rosenwald |
Business |
12-Aug-1862 |
6-Jan-1932 |
Sears executive and Good Samaritan |
| Jan Schakowsky |
Politician |
26-May-1944 |
|
Congresswoman, Illinois 9th |
| Mark Schauer |
Politician |
2-Oct-1961 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 2009-11 |
| Bobby Scott |
Politician |
30-Apr-1947 |
|
Congressman, Virginia 3rd |
| Terri Sewell |
Politician |
1-Jan-1965 |
|
Congresswoman, Alabama 7th |
| Joshua I. Smith |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Coaching Group LLC |
| Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
| Alex-St. James |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
African American Republican Leadership Council |
| Michael S. Steele |
Politician |
19-Oct-1958 |
|
RNC Chairman, 2009-11 |
| David J. Stern |
Basketball |
22-Sep-1942 |
|
Commissioner of the NBA |
| Carl E. Stewart |
Judge |
2-Jan-1950 |
|
5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| H. Patrick Swygert |
Educator |
17-Mar-1943 |
|
President of Howard University, 1995-2008 |
| Ray Taliaferro |
Radio Personality |
7-Feb-1939 |
|
KGO late-night talk show host |
| C. Delores Tucker |
Activist |
4-Oct-1927 |
12-Oct-2005 |
National Congress of Black Women |
| Cicely Tyson |
Actor |
19-Dec-1933 |
|
Sounder |
| Sheryl Underwood |
Comic |
28-Oct-1963 |
|
The Talk |
| Lillian Wald |
Activist |
10-Mar-1867 |
1-Sep-1940 |
Henry Street Settlement |
| Harold Washington |
Politician |
15-Apr-1922 |
25-Nov-1987 |
First black Mayor of Chicago |
| Diane Watson |
Politician |
12-Nov-1933 |
|
Congresswoman from California, 2001-11 |
| Mel Watt |
Politician |
26-Aug-1945 |
|
Congressman, North Carolina 12th |
| Robert C. Weaver |
Government |
29-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1997 |
US HUD Secretary, 1966-68 |
| Ted Wells |
Attorney |
28-Apr-1950 |
|
Washington lawyer |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
Activist |
16-Jul-1862 |
25-Mar-1931 |
Civil rights advocate |
| Jessamyn West |
Author |
18-Jul-1902 |
23-Feb-1984 |
The Friendly Persuasion |
| George Henry White |
Politician |
18-Dec-1852 |
28-Dec-1918 |
Congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901 |
| Walter White |
Activist |
1-Jul-1893 |
21-Mar-1955 |
Worked against lynchings |
| Roger Wilkins |
Educator |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Author, blackademic |
| Jesse T. Williams, Sr. |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
VP at Goodyear, 1988-98 |
| Karen Hastie Williams |
Business |
30-Sep-1944 |
|
Retired Partner, Crowell & Moring |
| Wendell Willkie |
Politician |
18-Feb-1892 |
8-Oct-1944 |
Defeated by Roosevelt in 1940 |
| Margaret Bush Wilson |
Activist |
30-Jan-1919 |
11-Aug-2009 |
NAACP Chairman, 1975-83 |
| Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |
