Historic Black Humanists

	A. Philip Randolph Key leader of the labor and civil rights movements	April 15, 1889 — May 16, 1979
	Butterfly McQueen Film and television actress best known for her role in Gone With the Wind	January 7, 1911 — December 22, 1995
	Carter G. Woodson Progressive-Era historian and founder of Black History Month	December 19, 1875 — April 3, 1950
	Chandler Owen Progressive-Era editor, writer, and labor activist	April 5, 1889 — 1967
	Frederick Douglass Politician, orator, and writer during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras	February, 1818 — February 20, 1895
	Hubert Henry Harrison Harlem Renaissance speaker, scholar, labor activist, and educator	April 27, 1883 — December 17, 1927
	James Baldwin Civil Rights–Era novelist, poet, and playwright	August 2, 1924 — December 1, 1987
	Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, and activist	February 1, 1902 — May 22, 1967
	Richard Wright Author of two seminal contributions to Civil Rights–Era literature	September 4, 1908 — November 28, 1960
	W. E. B. Du Bois Sociologist, historian, writer, and founder of the NAACP	February 23, 1868 — August 27, 1963
	Zora Neale Hurston Harlem Renaissance writer and anthropologist	January 7, 1891 — January 28, 1960