Mildred Mitchell-Bateman
The first African-American woman to head a West Virginia state
government agency
J.
R. Clifford
Pioneer journalist, lawyer, and civil rights leader
John W. Davis
President of West Virginia State College and civil rights
leader
Martin Delany
The highest ranking black officer in the Union Army during the
Civil War
Elizabeth Simpson Drewry
The first African-American woman elected to the West Virginia
Legislature
Henry
Louis Gates Jr.
Renowned black literary scholar and chair of Harvard University's
African- American Studies Department
Hal
Greer
Huntington native and member of the basketball hall of
fame
John
C. Norman Jr.
Noted thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon and researcher
Christopher Payne
The first black member of the West Virginia Legislature
Samuel W. Starks
Local and national leader of the black Knights of Pythias fraternal
order
Leon Sullivan
Charleston native and civil rights leader
Booker T. Washington
Noted educator and first president of Tuskegee Institute