* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

He made a brief return to film in 1975, playing a chef in Breakheart Pass with Charles Bronson and had a cameo role as himself in the 1982 Jamaa Fanaka film Penitentiary II, along with Leon Isaac Kennedy and Mr. T.

* Jamaa Fanaka, filmmaker

Jamaa el Fna ( Arabic: < big > ساحة جامع الفناء </ big > jâmiʻ al-fanâʼ ) is a square and market place in Marrakesh's medina quarter ( old city ).

** Oscar Micheaux, African-American filmmaker ( b. 1884 )

* Oscar Micheaux, pioneering African-American filmmaker and author

* Body and Soul ( 1925 film ), the best-known silent film of pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar B. Micheaux

* March 25-Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker ( born 1884 )

* January 2-Oscar Micheaux, African-American author & filmmaker ( died 1951 )

Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company produced some films, he is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the twentieth century and the most prominent producer of race films.

Morehouse is one of two black colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African-American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Howard Thurman, filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson, Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses, musician Lil Jon, former Bank of America Chairman Walter E. Massey, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, and former United States Surgeon General David Satcher, among others.

William Greaves ( born in New York City, October 8, 1926 ) is a documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of African-American filmmaking.

Marlon Troy Riggs ( February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994 ) was a gay African-American filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist.

* Charles Lane ( African-American actor / filmmaker ) ( born 1953 ) U. S. actor

* Charles Lane ( filmmaker ) ( born 1963 ), African-American actor / filmmaker

The African-American filmmaker and actor Morgan Freeman directed the film, which also starred Danny Glover.

* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972

* Johnny Nash ( born 1940 ), African-American pop singer-songwriter

* Leon Robinson ( born 1962 ), African-American actor usually credited just as Leon

Henry Smith ( born 1876 ) was an African-American who was tortured and murdered at a public, heavily attended and promoted lynching on February 1, 1893 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas.

Washington was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved African-American woman on the Burroughs Plantation in southwest Virginia.

Harriet Tubman ( born Araminta Harriet Ross ; 1820 – March 10, 1913 ) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

Assata Olugbala Shakur ( born July 16, 1947, as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard ) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party ( BPP ) and Black Liberation Army ( BLA ).

* Dr. John Crews, the first African-American robotic surgeon, was born here.

* Harold Cruse ( 1916 – 2005 ), social critic and teacher of African-American studies, born in Petersburg.

Statesman and financier Bernard M. Baruch ( 1870-1965 ) and labor leader Lane Kirkland were born in Kershaw County, as was the first African-American baseball player in the American League, Larry Doby.

Her maternal grandfather, Nitcholas Drinkard, was born to Susan Bell ( Fuller ) Drinkard ( born 1876 ), of African-American and Dutch descent, and John Drinkard, Jr. ( born 1870 ), of African-American and Native American descent.

* Prophet William Saunders Crowdy, the African-American theologian, was born as a slave here in 1847

* Cookie Gilchrist – African-American civil rights activist and former American Football League and Canadian Football League superstar, born in Brackenridge

Prudence Crandall, who established a pioneering school for African-American girls, was born in 1803 in the area that is now Hope Valley.

* Robert Prentiss Daniel, born in Ettrick ; African-American educator and college administrator, president of Virginia State University for 18 years

Claudette Colvin ( born September 5, 1939 ) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement.

Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. ( born Louis Eugene Wolcott ; May 11, 1933, and formerly known as Louis X ) is the leader of the syncretic and mainly African-American religious movement the Nation of Islam ( NOI ).

* John Mitchell ( American football coach ) ( born 1951 ), first African-American football player to play football for the University of Alabama, and a coach

Brad Terrence Jordan ( born November 9, 1970 ), better known by his stage name Scarface, is an African-American rapper and recording artist from Houston, Texas and a member of the Geto Boys.

Elaine Riddick Jessie ( born Elaine Riddick in 1954 ) is an African-American woman who, as a 14-year-old girl in 1968, was forcibly sterilized by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, which argued that she was " feebleminded " and " promiscuous.

** Walter L. Cohen, African-American politician and businessman ( d. 1930 )

In the summer of 1956, North Carolina State College enrolled its first African-American undergraduates, Ed Carson, Manuel Crockett, Irwin Holmes, and Walter Holmes.

Walter Blake and Carl Linwood Smothers become the first African-American students to graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1972, the same year women were first admitted.

Castle also objected to Rogers ' inauthentic wardrobe demands and to white actor Walter Brennan playing their faithful friend and manservant Walter, since Walter was African-American.

* Walter A. Gordon, African-American political figure and American football player for University of California, Berkeley

For $ 9. 50 a week, Walter Mosley attended the Victory Baptist day school, a private African-American elementary school that held pioneering classes in black history.

Walter Nicks ( 26 July 1925-3 April 2007 ) was an African-American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher of jazz and modern dance.

Responding to pressure from the African-American community, the character Lil ' Eightball ( who appeared in a handful of Walter Lantz cartoons in the late 1930s and in those initial appearances constituted what animation and comics historian Michael Barrier described as being a " grotesquely stereotypical black boy ") was discontinued as one of the featured characters in the Lantz anthology comic book New Funnies ; the last appearance of the character was in the August 1947 issue.

African-American economist and writer Walter E. Williams has praised the report for its findings.

Important collections of African-American art include the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, the Paul R. Jones collections at the University of Delaware and University of Alabama, the David C. Driskell Art collection, the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Mott-Warsh collection.

A new addition to the team was Walter " Flipper Dipper " ( or " Flippa Dippa ") Johnson Jr., an African-American boy.

In Chicago in 1951, an African-American family, Ruth Younger, her husband Walter Lee Younger, their son Travis and Walter's mother are living in a cramped apartment.

Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi ( who was born Walter Eugene King on the 5th of October, 1928, and who died on the 11th of February, 2005 ) was the first African-American to ever be initiated into the priesthood of the initiation cult of any African traditional religion.

In 1940, in response to pressure from prominent African-American leaders such as A. Philip Randolph and Walter White, President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the United States Army Air Corps ( after 1941, the United States Army Air Forces ) to black men who volunteered to train as fighter pilots.