Toni Morrison (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Writer, Editor, Professor, and Activist)

Observes the beginning of Lent, a season of reflection and preparation in the Christian calendar.

rederick Douglass (American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century

John Lewis (towering American Civil Rights leader and Statesman who represented Georgia in Congress from 1987 to his death).

Nina Simone (American pianist, singer, songwriter)