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- Author, Civil Rights Activist, Willa Beatrice Player Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Bennett College for Women. (en)
- Pioneer in American education who developed the first and oldest voluntary racial integration program in the U.S. (en)
- food chemist for the United States Army at Natick Laboratories (en)
- First African American female District Attorney in the State of North Carolina. (en)
- African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video, and land art. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art. (en)
- Businesswoman and Philanthropist (en)
- Department chair of Social Science and professor. (en)
- Tapped by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman, first African American, and first psychologist to head the Peace Corps. She is also a pioneer in women's psychology (en)
- Professor and noted research scientist. (en)
- Author of the widely acclaimed White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response. Jacquenlyn Grant is the first African American woman to earn a doctoral degree in systematic theology at Union Theological Seminary. She is also an author, theology professor and minister. (en)
- Served as President from 1955-1966 (en)
- Served as President from 2002-2007 (en)
- Superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools (en)
- First African American woman to train and to become a faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also led a successful protest and boycott of downtown Greensboro, NC movie theaters in 1937. (en)
- Was elected to North Carolina House of Representatives in 1994. Served as professor of art and former director of Steele Hall Art gallery. (en)
- First African-American woman surgeon from the Southeastern United States and first African-American woman to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly, Brown was also the first African American woman to be made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (en)
- wife of R. Nathaniel Dett, taught piano. (en)
- First African American Mayor of Greensboro, NC and Educator. (en)
- Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate representing the 28th district. (en)
- Visiting Director of Music. Advisor to Frances Jones Bonner during 1937 downtown Greensboro, NC boycott and protest. (en)
- publicist, historian, and first African-American descendent of Colonel John Hazzard Carson to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. (en)
- First African American woman to manage a major American brewery, making her a master brewer for Miller Brewing Company now MillerCoors. (en)
- Famed educator and civil rights activist in Beaufort, North Carolina. She taught at the James B. Dudley Senior High for over thirty years. (en)
- Actress and educator. Maidie Norman's most famous role came in the 1962 horror and suspense film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? alongside veteran actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Norman is also widely known in Hollywood for fighting against stereotypical movie roles of African Americans. (en)
- African-American economist, author, liberal social and political commentator, and businesswoman. Began as a visiting professor of economics before serving as president 2007–2012. (en)
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