Honorees: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
| January | The Gee’s Bend Quilters |
| February | U.W. Clemon |
| March | Percy Lavon Julian |
| April | Coretta Scott King |
| May | Wallace Rayfield |
| June | Tuskegee Airmen |
| July | A.G. Gaston |
| August | Marva Collins |
| September | Jesse Owens |
| October | Michael A. Figures |
| November | W.C. Handy |
| December | Odessa Woolfolk |