Maker Directory

Our HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an extensive resource with thousands of subjects. Use this Directory to filter and search our entire library. Members can save Makers to revisit later—find them any time on your My Account page. Browse by Maker Category to learn more about each professional group.

Browse maker categories See Saved Makers

Results

ArtMakers

Dawoud Bey

Photographer

ArtMakers

Oscar Brown, Jr.

Poet, Entertainer, Music Composer, Actor

ArtMakers

Allan Crite

Painter

ArtMakers

Ossie Davis

Film Director, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Film Actor, Actor

SportsMakers

Ernie Banks

Baseball Player

SportsMakers

Robert Beamon

Long Jumper

ArtMakers

Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

Painter

ArtMakers

Samuel Greenlee

Fiction Writer, Poet

SportsMakers

Jerry Harkness

Basketball Player

ArtMakers

Richard Hunt

Sculptor, Painter

ArtMakers

Kerry James Marshall

Painter

ArtMakers

David Driskell

Art Professor, Curator, Fine Artist, Visual Arts Collector

ArtMakers

Edmund B. Gaither

Curator

ArtMakers

Jonathan Green

Painter, Printmaker

ArtMakers

Jeff Donaldson

Painter

ArtMakers

Lorenzo Pace

Mixed Media Artist

ArtMakers

Gordon Parks

Fiction Writer, Film Director, Photographer, Filmmaker

SportsMakers

Henry Presswood

Baseball Player

SportsMakers

Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe

Baseball Player

SportsMakers

Willy T. Ribbs

Race Car Driver

ArtMakers

Lloyd Richards

Academic Administrator, Stage Actor, Theater Director

SportsMakers

Julius L. Richardson

Golf Instructor

SportsMakers

Bobby Robinson

Baseball Player

ArtMakers, MilitaryMakers

Ed Dwight

Sculptor, Test Pilot

ArtMakers

Ausbra Ford

Sculptor, Art Professor

LawMakers, PoliticalMakers, SportsMakers

Truman K. Gibson, Jr.

Lawyer, Presidential Advisor, Boxing Promoter

ArtMakers

Okoro Harold Johnson

Playwright, Stage Actor, Theater Director

SportsMakers

Minnie Minoso

Baseball Player

SportsMakers

Alvin Spearman

Baseball Player

ArtMakers

Allen Stringfellow

Collage Artist, Watercolor Artist

SportsMakers

Ricardo Patton

College Basketball Coach

SportsMakers

Robert Pickens

Football Player, Wrestler

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Noel Mayo

Industrial Designer, Design Professor

ArtMakers

Richard Long

Author

ArtMakers

Douglas Alan-Mann

Stage Actor, Stage Director

CivicMakers, SportsMakers

Charles Johnson

Union Leader, Baseball Player

ArtMakers

Eric Werner

Photographer

ArtMakers

Bob Black

Photographer

SportsMakers, MusicMakers

Ernie Terrell

Music Producer, Boxer, Singer

BusinessMakers, SportsMakers

Mel Farr, Sr.

Auto Sales Entrepreneur, Football Player

SportsMakers

Bob Love

Basketball Player

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

SportsMakers

Sanford T. Roach

Elementary School Principal, High School Basketball Coach, High School Principal

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

ArtMakers

Thomas Miller

Graphic Designer, Painter

ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

Jazz and Blues Poet, African American Studies Professor, English Professor

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician

ArtMakers

Frank Lucas

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Woodie King, Jr.

Stage Director, Theater Director