Black Scholars and Educators
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Notable African-American Scholars and Educators
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- Benjamin Banneker, American intellectual and scientist
- Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator
- Kenneth B. Clark, American educator and psychologist
- W. E. B. Du Bois, American author and teacher
- John Hope Franklin, American historian
- Marcus Garvey, American proponent of Black nationalism
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scholar
- Archibald H. Grimke, African American author and crusader for Black advancement
- Richard Gordon Hatcher, law professor, politician
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent Black federal judge and historian
- Anita Hill, lawyer, educator, author, activist
- Zora Neale Hurston, American writer
- John Johnson, publisher
- Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator
- Ernest Everest Just, biologist, educator
- Maulana Karenga, scholar
- John Mercer Langston, educator, public official, diplomat
- Alain Locke, philosopher
- Robert Russa Moton, educator
- A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
- Virginia Randolph, educator
- Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician
- Joel Elias Spingarn, educator and literary critic
- Booker T. Washington, American educator
- Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, journalist, activist
- Cornel West, scholar
- Walter White, American leader
- Carter G. Woodson, U.S. historian and publisher
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