Notable Persons

 Notable Names Suggestions; a history lesson for our youth, et.al.

        I don't control the selections, I merely do a little research and suggest candidates.  ***Candidates who are decesased, and the task too great to locate their descendants, will be noted in special memoriam. Below, candidates in purple or Royal Blue are special memoriam candidates.  

      The Framers, signatories, and supporters of this document will drive its success and integrity. This is a list of persons that we hope would be Framers and signatories for this document; George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, LaQuan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, et. al., Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Wendell Phillips, those persons black and white, who opened their doors to escaped slaves and hid them in the middle of the night with risk of life and property, Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Harry Belefonte, Ossie and Ruby Davis (nee' Dee), Conference of National Black  Churches, The National Council of Negro Women, members of The Congressional Black Caucus,  Branch Rickey, Jackie and Rachel Robinson, Roy Campanella, Maury Wills, Elston Howard, Joe Morgan, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Willie Stargell, Willie McCovey, Ernie Banks, Frank Robinson, Ken Griffey Jr.,Thomas A. Dorsey, Shirley Ceasar, Cornell West,  Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Elder Henry Buie of The Israel of God, Micheal Jordan, Mike Tyson, our Civil Rights leaders, James H. Lowry, Joseph E. Lowery, Rev. Clay Evans, Roland Burris, Edward Brooke,  (just missed John Lewis, unless a relative can serve as proxy), relative or proxy for C.T. Vivian, President Barack and Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, any descendants of W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington, Angela Davis, Cicely Tyson, Miles Davis, Wyatt T. Walker, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Rev Al Sharpton, family member of Kobe Bryant, Cynthia Cooper, Sheryl Swoopes, Lynette Woodard, Julius Erving, Shaquille O'Neal, Muhammed Ali, Malcolm X, Jack Johnon, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Jim Brown, Red Auerbach, K. C. Jones, Bill Russell, Sam Jones, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Earvin Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Lebron James, Sonny and Jabari Parker, Stephen Curry-Dell Curry, the living children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the descendants of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Medgar and Myrlie Evers Williams, descendants of Viola Luizzo, Rev. Dr. Micheal Pfleger, John Conyers, descendants of Fanny Lou Hamer, descendants of Rosa Parks, James Meredith, Nikki Giovanni, Colin Kaepernick, Dr. Jamal Bryant, Rev. Dr. William Barber 11, Pastors; Frederick K.C. Price, T.D.Jakes, Bill Winston, Guy Johnson, the son of Maya Angelou , Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, George E. Johnson, John H. Johnson, S. B. Fuller, Madame C.J. Walker, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Jay-Z and Beyonce', Spike Lee, the sister or descendant(s) of James Baldwin ,the family member of Philip Jackson, founder of The Million Father March which is one of our proposed Constitutional Articles. The descendants of the following persons, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph D. Abernathy,  Walter Reuthers, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin. Nancy Wilson, Micheal Jackson, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross (Mary Wilson,The Supremes), Otis Wiliams, (The Tempations) , Smokey Robinson (The Miracles), Curtis Mayfield (The Impressions), (Levi Stubbs)The Four Tops, Mackenzie Scott, Robert F. Smith, co-founders of Black Lives Matters, Tiger Woods, Vince Lombardi, Gales Sayers, Reggie White, Walter Payton, Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes 11,  Deion Sanders, Patti LaBelle, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Tio Hardiman, in memoriam of John Thompson, Patrick Ewing Tupac Shakur, Shirley Chisholm, Charles B. Rangel, Samuel Jackson, Louis Gossett Jr., Leslie Uggams, John Amos, LaVar Burton,Ja'Net Dubois, Bern Nadette Stanis, et.al. This list could  go on indefinitely with others, e.g. news journalists, media personalities,Charles Barkley, Stephen A. Smith, Jalen Rose and Chris Webber ( two very intelligent and thoughtful black men who are role models for young black boys and girls). 

     More Contemporary Notables. If  you are not on The List, I am not omitting you purposely.

     Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Bubba Wallace, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Richard Pryor, Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, Redd Foxx, Kevin Hart, Ice Cube Ice T, Snoop Dog, Common, Sean Combs, LL Cool J, Lauryn Hill, Dr. Dre, Kanye West, et al.

    Again, a couple of paragraphs or a page about the lives of these notables could serve as section in a donated book that could fundraise for the proposed African American Community Improvement Asociation.