Robert S. Abbott - 3630 S. Wells
            Abbott (1870-1940) received a law degree in 1899 and founded the Chicago Daily
           Defender in 1905.

Ira F. Aldridge - 630 W.131st Street
            Aldridge (1805-1867) was the leading Shakespearean actor of his era, best known
            for his role as Othello.

Louis D. Armstrong -5345 W. Congress Parkway
            Armstrong (1900-1971) was an internationally acclaimed trumpeter who had many
            engagements in Chicago.

Cripus Attucks - 3813 S. Dearborn St.
           Attucks (1723-1770) was the first to die in the Boston Massacre, fighting on the side
           of the American revolutionaries against the British.

Benjamin Banneker - 6656 S. Normal Boulevard
           Banneker (1731-1806) was a mathematician, astronomer, inventor and essayist.
           He designed the city of Washington, D.C. and made the first clock in America.

Ida B. Wells Barnett - 311 E. 109th St.
           Barnett (1862-1931) was a journalist, newspaper owner, club woman, and essayist.
           She was a leader of the anti-lynching movement, lived much of her life in Chicago
           and was married to Ferdinand Barnett.

 Edward W. Beasley - 5525 S. State St.
           Beasley (1898-1977) graduated from Fiske and Northwestern Universities. He was
           an acclaimed pediatrician, affiliated with Provident, Children's Memorial and North-
           western Memorial Hospitals, as well as Supreme Life Insurance Co.

Mary McLeod Bethune - 3030 W. Arthington St.
          Bethune (1875-1955) founded Bethune-Cookman College in Florida and was of
          great foresight and commitment to education and civil rights for African Americans.
          She was an advisor to President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Arna Wendell Bontemps - 1231 W. 58th St.
          Bontemps (1902-1973) was a creative genius of the Harlem Renaissance, author of
          many novels, poems, and works of history and sociology.

Midian P. Bousfield -4401 S. St. Lawrence
          Bousfield (1885-1948) was a physician, author and civil leader. He was affiliated with
          Provident Hospital, the Rosenwald Fund and the U.S. Army. He was also a member
          of the Chicago Board of Education.

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche - 6515 S. Ashland Ave.
           Bunche (1904-1971) held 40 honorary degrees and was bestowed the Nobel Peace
           Prize for his negotation of the first Arab-Isareli treaty. He was former professor of
           Politcal Science at Howard University.

George Washington Carver - 909 E. 132nd St., 801 E. 133rd Pl., 13100 Doty Ave.
          Carver (1864-1943) was a preeminent scientist, teacher, and humanitarian. His
           discoveries created a new economy for the South and his research on the peanut
           and soybean are legendary.

Michele Clark - 5101 W. Harrison St.
          Clark (1943-1972) was the first news correspondent for CBS, assigned to work on
          the CBS morning news. She was killed in an airplane crash in Chicago in 1972 at the
          age of 29.

Oneida Cockrell - 30 E. 61st St.
          Cockrell (1900-1970) was a pioneer in early childhood education and a graduate
          of Wendell Phillips High School. She was director of the Rosenwald Child Nursery
          for 40 years and was internationally acclaimed.

George Collins - 1313 S. Sacramento Blvd.
           Collins (1925-1972) was a Chicago politican and a U.S. Congressman from the west
            side of  Chicago.
            He was killed on the same airplane with Michele Clark in 1972. His wife, Cardiss
           Collins, succeeded him in Congress where she continues to serve with distinction.

Countee Cullen - 10650 S. Eberhart Ave.
              Cullen (1903-1946) was a leading poet and author of the Harlem Renaissance
               period. His poem, "If We Must Die",  is credited with having  given impetus
               to the Renaissance.