Bridget "Biddy" Mason, Issac Myers, Samuel Wilcox, Frederick Patterson, George "Crum" Speck, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Maggie Lena Walker, Charles Spaulding, Aaron Moore, John Merrick, Annie Malone, Madam C. J. Walker, Arthur G. Gaston, John Johnson, and Reginald Lewis