|
ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE |
Founder & “Guiding
Light” of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
Dr. Mae Jemison |
First African
American Woman Astronaut |
|
Star Jones |
Co-Host of The View;
Former Supreme Anti-Grammateus of AKA; Attorney
|
|
Phylicia Rashad |
Actress |
|
Jada Pinkett
Smith |
Actress |
|
Coretta Scott
King |
Civil Rights
Activist; Widow of Martin Luther King Jr. |
|
Marian Anderson |
First African
American Woman to sing at Metropolitan Opera House |
|
Toni Morrison |
Nobel Prize Winning
Novelist & Poet |
|
Dr. Maya Angelou |
Author, Poet, Singer,
& Dancer |
|
Jane Addams |
Founder of Hull
House; Chicago, |
|
Dr. Gwendolyn Calbert
Baker, PhD. |
President of the
United States Committee for UNICEF |
|
Angie Brookes |
First woman President
of the United Nations |
|
Yvonne
Braithwaite-Burke |
Former Congresswoman
from California & First woman to chair the
Democratic National Convention |
|
Suzette Charles |
Miss America, 1984,
Contemporary Singer & Actress |
|
Marva Collins |
Founder of her own
private school in Chicago's west side |
|
Sharon Pratt Kelly |
First woman to serve
as mayor of Washington, D.C. |
|
Ella Fitzgerald |
Internationally
famous Jazz singer, "First Lady of Song" |
|
Zina Garrison |
Tennis Star |
|
Dr. Marilyn
Hughes-Gaston |
Assistant Surgeon
General |
|
Janice Huff |
NBC Meteorologist on
TODAY & St. Louis Emmy Award Winner |
|
Virginia Johnson |
Prima Ballerina, one
of the original members of the Dance Theatre of
Harlem |
|
Gladys Knight |
Singer & Actress |
|
Yvette Lee Browser |
Producer of Hangin'
with Mr. Cooper & A Different World |
|
Jewell Jackson McCabe |
President of the
National Coalition of 100 Black Women |
|
Lt. Col. Anita
McMiller |
Deputy Legislative
Assistant to Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff |
|
JoMarie Payton
Noble |
Humanitarian &
Actress; star of Family Matters |
|
Hazel O'Leary |
United States
Secretary for the Department of Energy |
|
Rosa Parks |
"Mother of the Civil
Rights Movement" |
|
Marietta Tree |
First U.S. Woman
Ambassador of United Nations |
|
C. Delores Tucker |
National Chairman of
the National Political congress of Black Women |
|
Dr. Debbye Turner |
Humanitarian & Miss
America, 1990 |
|
Leah Tutu |
Wife of South African
Activist Bishop Desmond Tutu |
|
Marjorie Judith
Vincent |
Miss America, 1991 |
|
Diane Watson |
First Black Woman to
preside over the California State Senate |
|
Lynn Whitfield |
Humanitarian &
Actress |
|
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Humanitarian;
Delegate to United Nations |
|
Vanessa Bell Calloway |
Actress |
|
Loretta Devine |
Actress; Waiting to
Exhale |
|
Althea Gibson |
Pioneer in amateur
Tennis and Professional Golf |
|
Georgiana Simpson |
First African
American Woman Ph.D |
|
Roxie Roker |
Actress on the
Jefferson's; Musician & Mother of Lenny Kravitz |
|
Faye Wattleton |
Former President of
Planned Parenthood |
|
Alice Coachman Davis |
First African
American woman in the world to win a Gold Medal &
First African American female to win a Gold Medal in
Track & Field |
|
Vonetta Flowers |
First African
American to win a Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics
for bobsledding |
|
Gwendlyn
Goldsby Grant |
Advice Columnist for
Essence |
|
Chamique
Holdsclaw |
Basketball Player for
the Washington Mystics |
|
Shirlee Tailor
Haizlop |
Author of
Sweeter the Juice |
|
Catherine Hughes |
CEO/owner of Radio
One, a multimillion dollar corporation |
|
Andrea Lyle-Wilson |
Granddaughter of
founder ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE |
|
Muriel Lyle-Smith |
Granddaughter of
founder ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE; President of Panache
Productions |
|
Suzanne de Passe |
Chairman & CEO of de
Passe Entertainment |
|
Sonia Sanchez |
Noted author & poet |
|
Iyanla Vanzant |
Author of 10 books &
Public Inspirational Speaker |
|
Dorothy Cowser Yancy |
President of Johnson
C. Smith University |
|
Olivia Cole |
Actress |
|
Sarah Delaney |
Educator; One of the
oldest women; Passed away at the age of 109 |
|
Marla Gibbs |
Actress |
|
Alicia Keys |
Singer |
|
Danica Tisdale |
Miss Georgia 2004 |
|
Tajauana "TJ" Butler |
Author of "Sorority Sisters" & "Hand Me Down
Heartache" |