- Michael Abels; photo by Todd Rosenberg; courtesy of Michael Abels.
- Eleanor Alberga; photo by Ben Ealovega; courtesy of Eleanor Alberga.
- Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges; Etching by Ward from the oil painting by Mather Brown, 1788. Used with permission of the Archive dépt. De Guadeloupe.
- Henry (“Harry”) Thacker Burleigh; public domain; from Maud Cuney-Hare, Negro Musicians and Their Music (Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936): 328. Copyright not renewed.
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; public domain.
- Roque Cordero; used with permission of the Cordero family.
- R(obert) Nathaniel Dett; public domain.
- Edward Kennedy (“Duke”) Ellington; public domain.
- Francisca Edwiges Neves (“Chiquinha”) Gonzaga; public domain.
- Francis (“Frank”) Johnson; public domain.
- J(ohn) Rosamond Johnson; public domain.
- Scott Joplin; public domain.
- Tania León; photo by Michel Provost; courtesy of Tania León.
- Jessie Montgomery; courtesy of Jessie Montgomery.
- J(oseph) H(anson) Kwabena Nketia; courtesy of J.H. Kwabena Nketia.
- Nkeiru Okoye; photo by Matt Gray; courtesy of Nkeiru Okoye.
- Florence Price; from the Florence Price Papers; used with permission of Special Collections, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
- Amadeo Roldán y Gardes; public domain.
- Daniel Bernard Roumain; photo by Christine Turner; courtesy of Daniel Bernard Roumain.
- Ignatius Sancho; by Francesco Bartolozzi, published by John Bowyer Nichols, after Thomas Gainsborough, stipple engraving, published 2 July 1781 (1768); used with permission of the National Portrait Gallery Picture Library of the UK.
- William Grant Still; public domain; from Maud Cuney-Hare, Negro Musicians and Their Music (Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936): 336. Copyright not renewed.
- George Walker; photo by Frank Schramm; courtesy of George Walker.
- Clarence Cameron White; public domain; from Maud Cuney-Hare, Negro Musicians and Their Music (Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936): 329. Copyright not renewed.
- José Silvestre de los Dolores White y Lafitte; public domain.
