Category
page 1African-American centenarians
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Susannah Mushatt Jones
American supercentenarian (1899–2016)
Anna J. Cooper
African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)
Jeralean Talley
American supercentenarian (1899–2015)
Elizabeth Bolden
American supercentenarian (1890–2006)
Dave Bartholomew
American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer (1918–2019)
Emma Tillman
Supercentenarian, oldest person in the world
Amelia Boynton Robinson
American civil rights activist (1911–2015)
Richard Overton
American centenarian and oldest verified living World War II veteran
Herb Jeffries
American singer and actor (1913-2014)
Herb Douglas
American long jumper (1922–2023)
Esther Cooper Jackson
Civil rights activist (1917–2022)
Naomi Whitehead
oldest living person in the United States
Virginia McLaurin
American community volunteer (1909–2022)
Clementine Hunter
American folk artist (1889-1988)
Elizabeth Francis
American supercentenarian (1909–2024)
Ella Jenkins
American folk singer (1924–2024)
Augustus F. Hawkins
American politician (1907-2007)
Everett Lee
American conductor (1916–2022)
Viola Fletcher
oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre (1914–2025)
Moses Hardy
American supercentenarian (1894–2006)
Ruth Ellis
LGBT rights activist (1899–2000)
Charles McGee
American Air Force officer
Louise Meriwether
American novelist (1923–2023)
Betty Reid-Soskin
American entrepreneur, activist, park ranger (1921–2025)
Millie Bailey
American WWII veteran, civil servant, and volunteer
Olivia Hooker
psychologist and professor (1915-2018)
Hal Singer
American musician (1919–2020)
Oliver Hill
American lawyer (1907–2007)
Ruby Muhammad
American centenarian (1907–2011)
Etta Moten Barnett
American singer, actress, and activist (1901–2004)
Ann Nixon Cooper
American activist (1902-2009)
Lawrence Brooks
US WWII veteran
Rachel Robinson
American activist; wife of Jackie Robinson
Emilio Navarro
Puerto Rican baseball player (1905-2011)
Leila Danette
African-American stage, film and television actress (1909–2012)
Frankie Muse Freeman
American lawyer
Thelma C. Davidson Adair
American civil rights activist
Lydia Flood Jackson
American businesswoman, suffragist, and clubwoman
Gertrude Jeannette
American actress and activist (1914-2018)
Margaret Morgan Lawrence
American psychiatrist
Sarah Louise Delany
African-American writer and activist
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
American civil rights and criminal defense lawyer (1914-2018)
Silas Simmons
American baseball player (1895–2006)
Huey Long
American musician (1904–2009)
Annie Elizabeth Delany
American dentist and activist (1891-1995)
Emma Didlake
American military personnel
Alexander Jefferson
United States Army officer (1921–2022)
Annie Lee Cooper
American civil rights activist
Bill Greason
baseball player
Alice of Dunk's Ferry
oral historian and centenarian, born a slave in Philadelphia