- All
- Male
- Female
- 1800-1899
- 1900-1999
- 2000-Present
1853: Purposefulness: James McCune Smith
1858: Purposefulness: William Wells Brown
1883: Purposefulness: Frederick Douglass:
1903: Purposefulness: W.E.B. DuBois
1911: Purposefulness: Arturo Schomburg
1961: Purposefulness: Katherine Johnson
1967: Purposefulness: Raye Montague
1972: Purposefulness: June Bacon-Bercey
1975: Purposefulness: Septima Poinsette Clark
2015: Purposefulness: Misty Copeland
