1991 Honorees

Strong Men & Women

Strong Men:

Louis Daniel Armstrong, John Arthur "Jack" Johnson, Elijah Muhammad, George Washington Williams, Asa Philip Randolph, Tuskegee Airmen, Frederick Douglass, Carter Godwin Woodson, Egbert Austin Williams, Oscar Micheaux, The Buffalo Soldiers, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, William Edward Burghardt Dubois, Langston James Hughes, Paul Robeson, A Child at Prayer, George Washington Carver, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, James Baldwin, Benjamin Elijah Mays, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), Ernest Everett Just, Charles Young, Leroy "Satchel" Paige, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, Charlie Parker, Protest! Protest! Protest!, Booker Taliaferro Washington, Charles White, Father and Son, Luther Robinson, Wade Hampton McCree, Matthew Alexander Henson, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg

Strong Women:

Thelma Louise Cowans, Ida Wells Barnett, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, Sojourner Truth, Networking, Mary Jane McCleod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Madame C.J. Walker, Seeking Divine Guidance, Josephine Baker, Augusta Savage, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Gray, Ethel Wayers, Biddy Mason, Mary Elizabeth Mahoney, Maggie Lena Walker, Harriet Tubman, Mahalia Jackson, Self-Sacrifice, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander, Patricia Roberts Harris, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, Fannie Lou Hamer, Billie Holiday, Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Susan Mari Smith, McKinney Stewart, Septima Clark, Protest and Affirmation, Bessie Coleman, Jessie Slaton, The Jewel of Your Choice