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.
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.
Marva Collins
Founder of her own private school in Chicago's west side.
Ella Fitzgerald
Internationally famous jazz singer, known as the "First Lady of Song".
Bettiann Guena Gardner
Co-Chairwoman of Soft Sheen Products.
Dr. Mae Jemison
Became the first African-American woman astronaut in 1992.
Star Jones
Starlet Jones is a lawyer, former assistant district attorney and former NBC news correspondent and former co-host of ABC’s The View.
Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
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.
Nichelle Nichols
Actress and Activist; Star Role as Lt. Uhura of Star Trek.
Rosa Parks
Known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
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.
