; (4) Hubert H. Harrison, a writer, teacher, orator, editor, labor leader, and Renaissance Man ; (5) Morris Simmonds, a German physician and noted pathologist, after whom a disease of the pituitary gland known as Simmonds Disease is named; (6) Arthur A. Schomburg, a bibliophile, historian, curator, and activist who raised awareness of the great contributions that African Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society, and whose collection of literature and art is now part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library in Harlem; (7) Alton A. Adams, a musician and the first Black bandmaster of the Navy; (8) Sosthenes Behn, a soldier, industrialist, business innovator, and founder of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company; (9) Casper Holstein, a humanitarian and philanthropist who advocated for improving the standard of living for Virgin Islanders and for a greater degree of island self-government; (10) Nella Larsen, one of the most influential novelists of the Harlem Renaissance; (11) Ashley L. Totten, an organizer and officer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and leader of the American Virgin Islands Civic and Industrial Association of New York; (12) Alonzo G. Moron, the President of Hampton University from 1949 to 1959; (13) Valmy Thomas, a professional baseball player and the first Virgin Islands of the United States native to play in Major League Baseball; (14) Claude A. Bennie Benjamin, a musician, composer, and entertainer who composed musical themes for several Walt Disney pictures; (15) J. Raymond Jones, a politician, power broker, and Tammany Hall chief; (16) Roy Innis, an activist, politician, and National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality from 1968 to 2017; (17) the Honorable Melvin H. Evans, the first elected Governor of the Virgin Islands of the United States and Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago