Category
page 1African-American composers
James Brown
American musician (1933–2006)

Wayne Shorter
American jazz saxophonist and composer (1933–2023)

W. C. Handy
American blues composer and musician (1873–1958)
James Weldon Johnson
American writer and activist (1871–1938)
Don Shirley
American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
James Scott
American ragtime composer (1885–1938)

Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
Jester Hairston
American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor, and actor (1901-2000)

Shirley Graham Du Bois
American composer and writer (1896–1977)
Tom Turpin
American ragtime composer and saloon-keeper (1871-1922)
James Ferraro
American musician (born 1986)
Charles Albert Tindley
American Methodist minister and gospel music composer (1851-1933)
Louis Chauvin
American ragtime pianist (1881-1908)
Blind Tom Wiggins
American pianist and composer (1849–1908)
Francis Johnson
African American musician and composer (1792–1844)
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor
founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
Chris Smith
American composer and vaudeville performer (1879-1949)
Valerie Capers
American musician

Lee Summers
American actor, composer and producer
Lettie Beckon Alston
composer
Micki Grant
American writer, composer, and actor (1929-2021)