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 Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Founder and "guiding light" of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Jane Addams Founder of Hull House, Chicago, Illinois Marian Anderson First African-American woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera Dr. Maya Angelou Renowned novelist, poet, educator, dancer. National Ambassador for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, Grammy winner for Best Spoken Word. Her works include "And Still I Rise" and "Phenomenal Woman". Dr. Gwendolyn Calbert Baker, PhD. President of the United States Committee for UNICEF Angie Brookes The first woman President of the United Nations. Bebe Moore Campbell Accomplished author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues Aint Like Mine Suzette Charles Miss America 1984, contemporary singer and actress Ella Fitzgerald Internationally famous jazz singer, known as the "First Lady of Song". Dr. Mae Jemison Became the first African-American woman astronaut in 1992. She is also a noted physician. She has done medical studies in Cuba, Kenya and Thailand Star Jones Starlet Jones is a lawyer, former assistant district attorney and former NBC news correspondent. She is also a former international second vice-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She currently hosts Star Jones on Court TV. Coretta Scott King Civil Rights Activist, Director of Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism. Gladys Knight Accomplished singer and actress Yvette Lee Producer of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and A Different World, and creator and executive producer of Living Single Toni Morrison Nobel prize winning novelist and poet whose works include Song of Solomon and Beloved. Jomarie Payton Noble Humanitarian and actress; star of Family Matters Rosa Parks Known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. This launched the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott. Suzanne de Passe Chairman and CEO of de Passé Entertainment Phylicia Rashad Actress on the award-winning Cosby show and the TV series Cosby Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian and former first lady of the United States Sonia Sanchez Noted author and poet Ntozake Shaunge Author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf Jada Pinkett-Smith Actress whose works include: The Nutty Professor, Set It Off, Menace to Society and A Different World Dr. Debbye Turner Humanitarian and Miss America, 1990 Leah Tutu Wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu Iyanla Vanzant Author of 10 books and public inspirational speaker Marjorie Judith Vincent Miss America, 1991 Lynn Whitfield Humanitarian and actress and star of The Jospehine Baker Story, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate Alicia Keys J Records Recording artist. Known for musical talent on piano. Clara Burrill Bruce Attorney, a graduate of Boston University Law School, the first BLACK PERSON IN THE NATION to serve as Editor-in-Chief of a law review (Boston University Law Review, 1925), the first Black woman (and forth Black person) in the nation elected to law review (Boston University Law Review, 1924), and the second Black woman admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. |