Mentors James Baldwin Mary McLeod Bethune Dr. George Washington Carver Dr. Kenneth Clark John Coltrane Miles Davis Frederick Douglass St. Clair Drake Dr. Charles Drew Dr. W.E.B. Dubois Duke Ellington Dr. Frantz Fanon Dr. E. Franklin Frazier John Birks (Dizzy) Gillespie Richard T. Greener Leon Higgenbotham Oliver W. Hill Lena Horne Langston Hughes Dr. Zora Neal Hurston Dr. Alain Locke Branford Marsalis Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Thelonious Monk Dr. Carter G. Woodson Thurgood Marshall