| 1 | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Baptist |
| 2 | Frederick Douglass | |
| 3 | Booker T. Washington | |
| 4 | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| 5 | Charles H. Houston | |
| 6 | Richard Allen and Absalom Jones | African Methodist Episcopal Church (founder) first black Episcopalian priest |
| 7 | Prince Hall | |
| 8 | Samuel E. Cornish and John Russwurm | |
| 9 | David Walker | |
| 10 | Nat Turner | |
| 11 | James Forten | |
| 12 | Harriet Tubman | Methodist |
| 13 | Martin R. Delany | |
| 14 | Henry H. Garnet | |
| 15 | Sojourner Truth | Methodist; Seventh-day Adventist |
| 16 | Benjamin Banneker | |
| 17 | Crispus Attucks | |
| 18 | Paul Laurence Dunbar | |
| 19 | Phillis Wheatley | |
| 20 | P.B.S. Pinchback | |
| 21 | Marcus Garvey | |
| 22 | Thurgood Marshall | Episcopalian |
| 23 | Malcolm X | Seventh-day Adventist; Nation of Islam; Islam |
| 24 | Paul Robeson | Quaker |
| 25 | Carter G. Woodson | |
| 26 | James Weldon Johnston | |
| 27 | George Washington Carver | Christianity |
| 28 | William M. Trotter | |
| 29 | Ida B. Wells-Barnett | |
| 30 | Madame C.J. Walker | |
| 31 | A. Philip Randolph | |
| 32 | Walter F. White | |
| 33 | Roy Wilkins | |
| 34 | Langston Hughes | |
| 35 | Mary McLeod Bethune | Methodist |
| 36 | Alain Locke | Baha'i |
| 37 | Claude McKay | Catholic |
| 38 | E. Franklin Frazier | |
| 39 | Henry McNeal Turner | Methodist |
| 40 | Mordecai W. Johnson | |
| 41 | Robert Abbott | |
| 42 | Jackie Robinson | Methodist |
| 43 | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. | |
| 44 | Whitney M. Young, Jr. | |
| 45 | Mary Church Terrell | |
| 46 | John H. Johnson | |
| 47 | Jesse Jackson | Baptist |
| 48 | Alex Haley | |
| 49 | James Baldwin | |
| 50 | Richard Wright | Seventh-day Adventist |
| 51 | Elijah Muhammad | Nation of Islam |
| 52 | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 53 | Benjamin E. Mays | |
| 54 | Muhammad Ali | Islam |
| 55 | Arthur Schomburg | |
| 56 | Jesse Owens | Christianity |
| 57 | Charles R. Drew | |
| 58 | John Hope | |
| 59 | Bayard Rustin | Quaker |
| 60 | T. Thomas Fortune | |
| 61 | Dorothy I. Height | |
| 62 | Bill Crosby | |
| 63 | Jack Johnson | |
| 64 | Gwendolyn Brooks | |
| 65 | Andrew Young | Congregationalist |
| 66 | Ralph Abernathy | |
| 67 | Duke Ellington | Episcopalian |
| 68 | Louis Armstrong | Baptist |
| 69 | Shirley Chisholm | Baptist |
| 70 | Ralph Bunche | |
| 71 | Joe Louis | |
| 72 | Lerone Bennett, Jr. | |
| 73 | Toni Morrison | |
| 74 | John Hope Franklin | |
| 75 | Fannie Lou Hamer | |
| 76 | Kenneth B. Clark | |
| 77 | Lorraine Hansberry | |
| 78 | Benjamin Hooks | |
| 79 | Leon Sullivan | |
| 80 | Louis Farrakhan | Nation of Islam |
| 81 | Oscar Micheaux | |
| 82 | Carl Rowan | |
| 83 | Bill Gray | |
| 84 | Katherine Dunham | |
| 85 | Maya Angelou | |
| 86 | Earl Graves | |
| 87 | Hank Aaron | |
| 88 | Dick Gregory | |
| 89 | Oprah Winfrey | Protestant |
| 90 | Ron Karenga | |
| 91 | Ruby Dee and Ossie David | |
| 92 | Harry Belefonte | |
| 93 | Marian Wright Edelman | Baptist |
| 94 | Marian Anderson | Baptist |
| 95 | Colin Powell | Episcopalian |
| 96 | August Wilson | |
| 97 | Clarence Thomas | Catholic |
| 98 | Arthur Ashe | |
| 99 | Black Power | |
| 100 | Rosa Parks | Methodist |