Nominees Pages 1 | 2     To read about a nominated trailblazer, click that person's name.   •Muhammad Ali   •Danny Anderson   •Marian Anderson   •Maya Angelou   •Louis Armstrong   •Arthur Ashe   •Josephine Baker   •Erine Banks   •Guion S. Bluford   •Otis Boykin   •Ruby Bridges   •Edward Brooke   •Gwendolyn Brooks   •Jesse Leroy Brown   •Cheryl Adrienne Browne   •Ralph Bunche   •George Carver   •Mary Ann Shad Cary   •Tracy Chapman   •Shirley Chisholm   •Rebecca Lee Crumpler   •Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.   •James Derham   •Fredrick Douglass   •WILLARD EPPS   •Althea Gibson   •Dizzy Gillespie   •Mal Goode   •Ernest Green   •Catrena H.   •Alex Haley   •Matthew Henson   •Jessie Jackson   •Mae Jemison   •Thomas L. Jennings   •Marion Jones   •Michael Jordan   •Michael Jordon   •Martin Luther King   •Martin Luther King, Jr.   •William A. Leidesdorff   •Reginald Lewis   •The Little Rock Nine   •Thurgood Marshall   •Willie Mays   •Hattie McDaniel   •Garret Augustus Morgan   •Toni Morrison   •Vancia Neal   •Barack Obama