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- Member of the Alabama House of Representatives (en)
- Pianist and composer (en)
- First African-American governor in the United States; 24th governor of Louisiana (en)
- Bishop of the Missouri Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church (en)
- Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 11; lawyer from Arcadia (en)
- Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana (en)
- Environmental organic chemist and the first female president of National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (en)
- Among first African Americans to receive a PhD (en)
- Award-winning poet (en)
- Civil rights activist, Algebra Project (en)
- Comedian/actor (en)
- Member, Louisiana House of Representatives (en)
- National spokesman, Nation of Islam (en)
- President and CEO of Girls, Inc.; former president and chief operating officer of Carson, Inc.; first female chairperson of the Dillard University Board of Trustees (en)
- Poet Laureate of Louisiana (en)
- Professor of Medicine at Duke University (en)
- Minister, former United States Ambassador to Liberia, and founder of the Maryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored Youths (en)
- Minister, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives, seventh district (en)
- Local New Orleans politician; director of the Center for Student Retention and Success in Southern University at New Orleans (en)
- Jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger; musical director for Sonny & Cher, Dr. John and many others; arranger for Sam Cooke (en)
- Founder, Dunbar Hospital, the first black hospital in Detroit, MI (en)
- First African-American president of an Ivy League University ; first African-American president of a "Seven Sisters" school (en)
- Actress of stage, screen and television' poet, playwright and author (en)
- First African American to serve on the Louisiana State Supreme Court ; member of the Dillard University Board of Trustees (en)
- Jazz pianist and music educator; father of jazz artists: Branford, Wynton, Jason and Delfeayo; retired director of Jazz Studies, University of New Orleans (en)
- Women's rights activist, poet, author and lecturer; wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar (en)
- Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, since 2023 (en)
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