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Politics and Law
Attorney Violette Anderson
- First African-American woman to practice
law before the U.S. Supreme Court
Dr. Eunice Thomas - Presidential Appointee, Director of the Office
of Community Service and Director of the Office of Public Liaison, Office
of the Co-Chairman, Republican National Committee
Edythe White
- First woman to serve on the Jackson, AL City Council
Judge Bernice Donald - First African-American woman elected to
the Tennessee Judiciary
Dr. Elaine Johnson
- Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Lucy Perez - Medical Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Deborah P. Wolfe
- Member, U.S. House of Representatives Committee
on Education and Labor
Algenita Scott Davis
- Past National President, National Bar Association
Anita Turpeau Anderson - First woman on the debate team at Howard
University
Arts, Humanities and Social
Services
Sheila Williamsv - First African American female news and public
affairs director for two radio stations simultaneously
Gwendolyn Brooks
- Author
Dionne Warwick
- Internationally renowned recording artist
Towanda Braxton
- Renowned recording artist
Ester Rolle
- Internationally renowned movie, stage and television
actress
Ja'Net DuBois
- Internationally renowned movie, stage, and television
actress
Grace Brumbry - Internationally renowned opera singer and first
African-American to be featured in Bayreuth, Germany's Wager Festival
Sarah Vaghn
- Internationally renowned jazz singer
Zora Neale Hurston
- Anthropologist, author and folklorist
Dr. Alyce Gullantee
- Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker
of "The Disabled Mind"
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
- Author of The Isis Papers and creator
of the Cress-Welsing theory analyzing the nature of white supremacy
Clara McLaughlin - President and CEO, East Texas Television - First
African-American woman to own and operate a television station
Sheryl Underwood - Comedienne
Melba Moore
- Renowned Soul Singer
Jane Kennedy
- Actress
Tommie "Tonei" Stewart
- Actress/storyteller/performance
artist - and NAACP "Image Award" nominee for her role in the
film "A Time to Kill"
Syleena Johnson
- Renowned singer
Education
Dr. Myrtice Taylor - First African-American superintendent for
curriculum and instruction - Atlanta Public Schools (and Member of Epsilon
Zeta)
Versia Lindsay - First woman to graduate from the School of Sciences,
Atlanta
Ms. Elizabeth Koontz - First African-American President of the
National Education Association, former Director of the Women's Bureau
Sports
Wendy L. Palmer - WNBA Basketball Player
Chantel Tremitiere - WNBA Basketball Player
DeMya Walker - WNBA Basketball Player
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