Booker T. Washington; Charles W. Chesnutt; W. E. B. Du Bois; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Claude McKay; Lillian Smith; Langston Hughes; Erskine Caldwell; Richard Wright; Ralph Ellison; Eudora Welty; Robert Hayden; Margaret Walker; Gwendolyn Brooks; James Baldwin; Flannery O'Connor; Audre. Lorde; Estate of Lucille Clifton; June Jordan; Michael S. Harper; Haki Madhubuti; Nikki Giovanni; Constance Curry; Toi Derricotte; Wanda Coleman; Marilyn Nelson; Rita Dove; Anthony Grooms; Cyrus Cassells; Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Frances E. W. Harper; Mary Burrill; Angelina Weld Grimké; Dudley Randall; Martin Luther King; Howard Sackler; Eldridge Cleaver; David Hernandez; Bebe Moore Campbell; Patricia J. Williams; Walter Mosley; Amiri Baraka