Marian Anderson - The first Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Maya Angelou - Renowned novelist and poet
Angie Brookes - The first female president of the United Nations.
Dr. Gwendolyn Calvert Baker - President of the United States Committee for UNICEF
Suzette Charles - Miss America, 1984.
Ella Fitzgerald - Internationally famous jazz singer.
Zina Garrison-Jackson - Famous tennis player.
Dr. Mae Jemison - The first Black female astronaut.
Coretta Scott King - Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism.
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.
Rosa Parks - Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Jomarie Payton Noble - Humanitarian and actress; star of Family Matters.
Jada Pinkett - Actress who has appeared on the television series A Different World, and in such movies as The Nutty Professor and Set It Off.
Sharon Pratt Kelly - The first woman to serve as mayor of Washington, D. C.
Phylicia Rashad - Actress on the award-winning Cosby Show.
Eleanor Roosevelt - Humanitarian and former First Lady of the United States.
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.