2012
Mr. Michael T. Allen
Mr. Harry D. Harper, Sr. (posthumous)
Mr. Philip G. Hubbard (posthumous)
Ms. Jacqueline Easley McGhee
Ms. Helen N. Miller
Ms. Arlene J. Morris

2011
Mr. Alexander G. Clark
Mr. Lionel J. Foster, Sr.
Mr. James B. Morris, Sr. (Inducted posthumously)
Mr. Robert V. Morris
Mr. Richard S. White

2010
Mr. William V. Bibb*
Mr. James E. Bowman (Inducted in 2005)
Mr. Russell L. Collins*
Ms. Elaine Estes
Mr. Maurice V. Esters*
Mr. Joseph P. Gomer
Mr. Zack Hamlett
Mr. Mel Harper
Mr. Robert L. Martin
Mr. George R. Miller
Mr. Clarence A. Oliphant*
Mr. Robert M. Parkey*
Mr. Luther H. Smith*
Mr. Thurman E. Sprigg
Mr. Charles Toney
Mr. Robert W. Williams*

2009
Mr. Jonathan R. Narcisse
Ms. Michelle M.E. Parker*
Captain Luther H. Smith*
Mr. Jesse F. Taylor

2008
Honorable Ako Abdul-Samad
Dr. Daniel C. Robinson
Mr. McKenzly Wilson

2007
Mr. Monroe J. Colston
Mr. Nolden Gentry
Mrs. Willie Stevenson Glanton

2006
Mr. W. Thomas Phillips
Mr. Adolphus Vance Pulliam
Dr. Carlie C. Tartakov

2005
Dr. Mary Louise Sconiers Chapman
Dr. James Everett Bowman
Dr. George Washington Carver (Inducted posthumously)

2004
Dr. Lenola Allen-Sommerville
Mr. Rudolph Simms, Jr.
Ms. Ruth Ann Gaines

2003
Honorable Wayne Ford
Rev. Keith A. Ratliff

2002
Dr. Charles Means

2001
Honorable LaMetta Wynn
Dr. Sidney Wallace*

2000
Ms. Edna Griffin*
Dr. Simon Estes

1999
Mr. Sylvester Grady
Ms. Frances E. Hawthorne
Ms. Catherine G. Williams

1998
Ms. Evelyn K. Davis*
Mr. John R. Stokes*
Mr. Robert A. Wright, Sr.

1997
Mr. Larry Carter*
Mr. Nelson Evans
Dr. Percy G. Harris
Ms. Minnie L. Mallard
Rev. H.I. Thomas

1996
Dr. Ruth Anderson
Dr. George A. Jackson
Mr. Gary Lawson

* deceased