Ethel Hedgeman Lyle - Founder and "guiding light" of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. whose purpose was to promote scholarship, sisterhood, and service among Black college women.
Jane Addams - Founder of Hull House, Chicago, Illinois.
Marian Anderson - The first Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Maya Angelou - Renowned novelist and poet.
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, PhD. - President of the United States Committee for UNICEF.
Angie Brookes - The first woman President of the United Nations.
Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke - Former Congresswoman from California and first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention.
Bebe Moore Campbell - Author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues Aint Like Mine.
Suzette Charles - Miss America, 1984.
Marva Collins - Founder of her own private school in Chicago's west side.
Sharon Pratt Kelly - The first woman to serve as mayor of Washington, D.C.
Ella Fitzgerald - Internationally famous jazz singer.
Bettiann Gueno Gardner - Co-Chairman of Soft Sheen Products.
Zina Garrsion - Tennis Star.
Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant - Advice Columnist for Essence.
Dr. Marilyn Hughes-Gatson - Assistant Surgeon General.
Shirlee Tailor Haizlip - Author of The Sweeter The Juice.
Janice Huff - NBC Meteorologist and St. Louis Emmy Award Winner.
Dr. Mae Jemison - The first Black woman astronaut.
Coretta Scott King - Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism.
Jewell Jackson McCabe - President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.
Lt. Col. Anita McMiller - Deputy Legislative Assistant to Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Toni Morrison - Nobel prize winning novelist and poet.
Jomarie Payton Noble - Humanitarian and actress; star of Family Matters.
Hazel O'Leary - United States Secretary for the Department of Energy.
Rosa Parks - Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Jada Pinkett - Actress whose movies include; The Nutty Professor, Set It Off, and Menace to Society.
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 Shange - Author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf".
C. Delores Tucker - National Chairman of the National Political Congress of Black Women.
Dr. Debbye Turner - Humanitarian and Miss America, 1990.
Leah Tutu - Wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu.
Marjorie Judith Vincent - Miss America, 1991.
Diane Watson - The first Black woman to preside over the California State Senate.
Faye Wattleton - The first woman to head the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Lynn Whitfield - Humanitarian and actress; star of The Josephine Baker Story.