Prominent Black Alumni at Prestigious Institutions

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The Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities Name Some of Their DistinguishedBlack AlumniSource: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 40 (Summer, 2003), pp. 106-118Published by: The JBHE FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3134062Accessed: 14/05/2010 03:41

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The Nation's Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities Name Some of Their Distinguished Black Alumni

OME OF THE nation's most prestigious colleges five nominees, and for these schools JBHE editors pared the and universities have been graduating black list to include just five individuals. For the schools students for as long as 180 years. But until ^that submitted more than five names, alumni whose

the late 1960s and early 1970s most of the nation's major accomplishments were in athletics or enter-

highest-ranked colleges and universities enrolled tainment were the most likely to be eliminated.

very few black students. Nevertheless, at the cur- Here we present a selection of distinguished rent time, all of the nation's elite institutions of black alumni of the nation's highest-ranked col-

higher education have amassed an admirable record leges and universities. The alumni are listed under of graduating a diverse group of African-American the names of the educational institutions, in alphabet- students. Each of these prestigious colleges and uni- Brown Universit's ical order. The year the black alumnus graduated versities has a number of distinguished African- Inman Page from the institution is listed in parentheses imme- American alumni who have gone on to make a mark in the world.

JBHE asked the nation's 25 highest-ranked universities and 25 highest-ranked liberal arts colleges to provide information on up to five black alumni who earned degrees at their institutions and went on to make significant contribu- tions to society. We emphasized that this was not an attempt to rank black alumni on relative importance but rather to

give an indication of the rich history of African-American

graduates at these institutions. Of these 50 high-ranking col-

leges and universities, Columbia University, Claremont McKenna College, and Vassar College declined to partici- pate in our survey.

Some colleges and universities offered fewer than five selections. Other educational institutions offered more than

diately after the alumnus' name.

A Small Sampling of Distinguished Black Alumni of the Nation's Highest-Ranked Universities

Brown University * Spencer Crew (1971) is the executive director and CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. He is the former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

* Gayl Jones (Ph.D., 1975) is the author of four novels, a collection of short stories, and several volumes of poetry. In 1998 Jones published The Healing, a novel that was a finalist for the National Book Award.

* Samuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D., 1932) was a professor at Atlanta University and later was named president of Texas Southern University in Houston. He also was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission and founded both the Southern Fellow- ship Fund and Upward Bound, organizations that foster academic advancement among African Americans.

* Inman Page (1877) was Brown's first African-American graduate. Page escaped slavery as a 10-year-old houseboy during the Civil War. He went north, and ended up being elected class orator at Brown for the 1877 Commencement. Page became a teacher and a school principal.

* Wallace Terry (1959), a former reporter at Time and The Washington Post, was best known for his eyewitness accounts of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. He was a prize-winning author, journalist, radio and television commen- tator, producer, and public speaker. (See p. 63 of this issue.)

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Selections of black alumni appearing here were pro- vided by the colleges and universities at which they were students. The choices were not selected by JBHE. And in no respect are the selections intended to be comprehensive or ranked in any way.

Obviously, there are prominent black alumni at all colleges and universities who are not mentioned in this survey. Listings are intended simply to convey the rich his-

tory of African-American graduates of our most prestigious educational institutions.

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California Institute of Technology Colored People. Her books include There Is Confusion, The

Edray H. Goins (1994) is the Taussky-Todd Chinaberry Tree, and Comedy: American Style. instructor of mathematics at CalTech. * Jerome Holland (1939) was president of Delaware State

z *Adrian Hightower (1995) is the CEO of University and Hampton University in Virginia. In 1970 Enhanced Energy Systems, Inc., an engineer- President Richard Nixon named him ambassador to Sweden.

~ ing firm focused on making "green energy" He was the first African American to serve on the board of the profitable. New York Stock Exchange and was named chairman of the

rater (1991) is a physicist specializing in deep-space National Red Cross by President Jimmy Carter. nications. He currently works on ground-based an- * Tom Jones (1969) served as top executive for TIAA-CREF, :ms supporting a variety of planetary exploring mis- the world's largest pension fund, from 1989 to 1997. He is cur-

rently the chair and CEO of Citigroup's SSB Citi Asset

I Rhodes (1969) was a state representative from Management Group, one of the largest asset management firms nia. Following graduation from CalTech, Rhodes in the world. I on Richard Nixon's Presidential Commission to Margaret Morgan Lawrence (1936) is a pediatric psy- pus unrest. chiatrist at Columbia Medical School and Harlem Walker (1982), a chemical engineer, is the Hospital. She founded the hospital's Developmental iger at DuPont's Niagara Falls facility. He Psychiatry Clinic. She is the author of The Mental vith DuPont for 20 years. Health Team in the Schools and Young Inner City

Families. Her daughter, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Carnegie Mellon University education professor at Harvard, has written her moth-

Erroll B. Davis Jr. (1965) is the pres- er's biography: Balm in Gilead: Journal of a Healer ident, chairman, and CEO of Alliant ? Samuel R. Pierce Jr. (1947) was the only black Energy, a holding company of regulated member of President Ronald Reagan's cabinet as secretary utility providers that has more than 3 Dartmouth College's of housing and urban development. In 1960 he became million customers. Davis serves on the Ernest Just the first black partner in a major New York City law

board of directors for several companies finn. Later, in 1964, he was the first black to join the BP Amoco and Edison Electric Institute. board of a major American corporation: U.S. Industries.

* Oscar L. Harris Jr. (1971) is the principal and owner of Turner Associates, an architectural and interior planning firm that focuses on transportation, education, urban redevelopment, and correctional facilities.

* Larry E. Jennings Jr. (1984) is chairman of Carnegie Morgan and senior managing director of Touchstone Partners. Prior to forming Carnegie Morgan, Jennings spent more than seven years as an investment banker at Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.

* Patricia Prattis Jennings (1962), a pianist, made her debut at the age of 14 with the Pittsburgh Symphony. She has been a member of this group since 1964, performing at the piano, organ, harpsichord, and celesta.

* Candace Matthews (1981) is the president of Soft Sheen/ Carson, one of the world's leading makers of ethnic hair care and beauty products. Soft Sheen/Carson is a division of L'Oreal Consumer Products.

Cornell University * Jessie Redmond Fauset (1905) was a pivotal figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Under the editorship of W.E.B. Du Bois, from 1919 to

1926 Fauset was literary editor of The Crisis, the official publi- cation of the National Association for the Advancement of

Dartmouth College * Ernest E. Just (1907) was a biologist who was one of the most important and influential black sci- entists in history. Just, a zoologist, biologist, phys- iologist, and research scientist, conducted experi- ments on fertilization and embryonic develop-

ment. In 1997 the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Just.

* H. Carl McCall (1958) was the New York State comptrol- ler from 1993 to 2003. He also held the positions of New York State senator, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, president of the New York City Board of Education, commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights.

* Aisha Tyler (1992) is a talk-show host and actress. She was the first female host of Talk Soup on the cable/satellite channel E! and has recently had a recurring role on the TV show Friends as a paleontologist named Charlie. She appeared in the film Santa Clause 2 and has a role in the forthcoming film Never Die Alone.

* Reggie Williams (1976) is a former pro football star, playing 14 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, which included two trips to the Super Bowl. He is now vice president of Disney Sports Attractions.

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Duke University * Frank Emory (1979) is a partner in the Charlott North Carolina, law firm Robinson, Bradshaw Hinson. He was a student body president at Dul University and a two-time appointee to the sta

board of transportation. * Grant Hill (1994), a five-time NBA All-Star, is now playir

for the Orlando Magic. At Duke he helped the men's basketba team win back-to-back NCAA Championships in 1991 ar 1992. * Clarence G. Newsome (1972) is the new president of Sha

University. He had served as dean of the Howard Universii School of Divinity in Washington. He was the first black stude] to give a Duke commencement address.

* Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (1967) is a law professor Syracuse University. She previously was on the faculty of ti Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an assoc ate director of the Georgetown Institute for Public Represent; tion.

* Jim Wilson (1974) was recently named picture editor at The New York Times. This is the top photo job at the newspaper.

Emory University *James O'Neal (1979) is cofounder and director of Legal Outreach, an organization in Harlem that aims to teach junior

high school students about legal issues to help them improve the quality of life in their communities.

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*Ronald E. Blaylock (1982) is president and CEO of Blaylock & Partners, an investmer banking firm. Since 1998 Black Enterprise magz zine has repeatedly ranked Blaylock & Partners

the leading minority-owned Wall Street firm. * Lloyd Campbell (1979) is a managing director and grou

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bring classroom skills and confidence to New York kids through Pride First, a nonprofit corporation he cofounded in 1986. Since 1996 Pride First has focused its efforts on training New York City public school teachers.

* Cheryl Cooper (1978) is the executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. and the former chief of staff of the American Association of Retired Persons.

* Stacey Steed (1985) was recently named president and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation.

* Michael Todman (1979) is the executive vice president of Whirlpool Europe and the former executive vice president for Whirlpool's North America region.

Harvard College at * W.E.B. Du Bois (1890), a sociologist, activist, he 3 and intellectual, was the first African American :i- ' W / to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. He became a- ": involved with the NAACP shortly after its

^-- founding and edited The Crisis, the organization's monthly newsletter, for almost 24 years.

* Roger W. Ferguson Jr. (1973) is vice chairman of

I_^1 ~ rthe Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

* Alphonse Fletcher (1987) is chairman and CEO of Fletcher Asset Management Inc. In 1999 Ernst and Young named him an "Entrepreneur of the Year."

* Pamela Thomas-Graham (1985) is the president and CEO of the CNBC television network. She is list-

L _^ ^ eed as one of the 50 most powerful black executives by Fortune magazine (July 2002).

ard University's * Franklin D. Raines (1971) is chairman and CEO E.B. Du Bois of Fannie Mae. He was the first black CEO of a

Fortune 500 company. Raines is the former director of nt the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton a- administration. as

Johns Hopkins University ip * Ernest A. Bates (1958), a to neurosurgeon, is the chairman

and CEO of American Shared Hospital Services and G.K. Financing in San Francisco.

* Loren R. Douglas (1986) is the president of GE Global Asset Protection Services, a subsidiary of General Electric's Employers Reinsurance Corp.

* Awadagin Pratt (1989) is a classical musician who is known for his skill and risk-taking as a pianist. Pratt was the first student in the history of the university's Peabody Conser- vatory to receive performer's certificates in piano and violin and a graduate performance diploma in conducting.

* Michael Steele (1981) is the lieutenant governor of Maryland, the first African American to hold that position. Prior to his election, Steele was the chairman of the Maryland Re- publican Party.

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* Andre Watts (1972) is a world-renowned pianist who made his debut with Leonard Bernstein when he was 16. Watts

appears on PBS and the BBC and performs with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Harvey Gantt (1970) served two terms as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. He made two unsuccessful attempts to unseat U.S. Senator

trate, and associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

* Randall L. Kennedy (1977) is a professor at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is entitled Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption. He served as law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

* John W. Rogers Jr. (1980) is the chairman and CEO of Ariel Mutual Funds in Chicago. He serves on the boards of several corporations including Aon Corporation and Bank One Corporation.

XBF ^ Jesse Helms. He is now a partner in an architec- Rice University tural firm. Teveia Rose Bares (1975) recently left the Bar

* Shirley Ann Jackson (1968) is a theoretical physicist who Association of San Francisco, where she served as now serves as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She executive director and general counsel for several

previously served as chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com- years. She is returning to legal practice to address mission. issues of social justice and advocacy for the underserved. * Ronald E. McNair (1976) was the second African American * Alexander Byrd (1990) is an assistant professor of history to fly in space. He was killed in the Challenger disaster in at Rice University. He received the Oral History Associa- 1986. tion's inaugural award for an outstanding oral history

project called Behind the Veil: Documenting African- Northwestern University American Life in the Jim Crow South.

Clinton Bristow Jr. (1971) is the * Courtney Hall (1990) was a center in the president of Alcorn State University. National Football League for the San Diego He has served in that position since Chargers and the Denver Broncos. He received his 1995. J.D. and MBA from the University of Chicago this ? Cardiss Collins (1967) served for 23 past June.

years as a congresswoman from Illinois. She * Sandra Johnson (1988) is the Linux Performance was elected in a special election in 1973 after her hus- Princeton University's Architect of the IBM Linux Performance Team in band, who had held the seat, died in an airplane crash. Randall Kennedy Austin, Texas.

* Renetta McCann (1978) is the CEO of Starcom North America, one of the world's top five media agencies.

* Ronald Riley (1971) is the presiding judge of the Sixth Municipal District of the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois.

* Laura Washington (1978) is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and was the former editor of The Chicago Reporter Early in her career, she was press secretary for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.

Princeton University Brent L. Henry (1969) is vice president and

general counsel of Partners HealthCare. Pre- ~A S viously he was senior vice president and general

counsel for MedStar Health. Henry is a member of the board of governors of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a trustee of Princeton University, and a past president of the American Health Lawyer's Association.

* Juanita T. James (1974) is vice president and general manager of Pitney Bowes, Inc. Professional Services.

* Henry H. Kennedy Jr. (1970) was appointed to the U.S. district court in 1997. He served as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, as United States magis-

* Quentin Nixon (1997) is the engineer and producer who founded Npire Sound of Atlanta in 2002. He pro- duces music for such artists as Alicia Keys and Dotfie Peoples.

Stanford University

fp__l n * Stephen L. Carter (1976) is William

kl lJll~ Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University and the author of numer-

ous books including Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby and the novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park.

* bell hooks (1973) is a feminist, writer, and Distinguished Professor of English at City College of the City University of New York. Among her recent publications are Communion: The Female Searchfor Love and Rock My Soul: Black Folk and Self-Esteem.

* Mae Jemison (1977) was the first black female astronaut in space on the shuttle Endeavor in 1992. She founded and is president of two technology companies.

* William E. Kennard (1978) is the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He is now managing director in global telecommunications and media of The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.

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* Charles J. Ogletree Jr. (1974) is Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Ogletree served as legal counsel to Professor Anita Hill during the Senate confirmation hear- ings of Justice Clarence Thomas. Professor Ogletree is now heading a legal team seeking reparations for slavery for millions of African Americans.

University of California at Berkeley * Alien E. Broussard (1950) served as a justice of

l^J ^ w the California Supreme Court from 1975 to 1991.

* Rafer Johnson (1959) is an Olympic decathlon champion. In 1969 Johnson helped found the California Special Olympics.

* Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1986) is an Olympic medalist in the long jump and heptathlon. Joyner-Kersee is also active with several charities, including the Boys and Girls Club.

* Marilyn McCoo Davis (1965) was one of the original members of the Fifth Dimension, a pop group that scored several hits such as Up, Up And Away and Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In. She has won eight Grammy Awards.

a l Broussard was known as the "practical liberal" University of Chicago during his tenure on the court. * Katherine Dunham (1936) is a dancer and chore- * Kevin Johnson (1987), former NBA All-Star, ographer best known as an influential pioneer of black

played most of his career as a point guard for the Phoenix Suns. dance and the anthropological dance movement. She He is the founding director of St. Hope Foundation, an organi- is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Music Award. zation that provides financial assistance for education and rede- * Michelle Rachel Howard-Vital (1974) is the vice chancel- velopment projects. lor for public service and continuing studies and associate

* Terry McMillan (1977) is the best-selling author of provost for academic affairs at the University of North Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Carolina at Wilmington. Mama, and several other titles. * Handy L. Lindsey Jr. (1975) is the president and

*Johnathan Rodgers (1967) was the former pres- treasurer of The Field Foundation of Illinois. The ident of the Discovery Network and CBS television. organization awards grants to institutions and agen- He was recently named president and CEO of Radio _ cies operating in the fields of urban and community One, owner of 66 urban stations, and Comcast, the affairs, culture, education, community welfare, health, nation's largest cable company. and environment that primarily serve the people of the

Chicago metropolitan area. University of California at Los Angeles UCLA's . Georgiana Simpson (1911) is believed to be the first

Ralph Bunche (1927), a scholar Ralph Bunche black woman to receive a Ph.D. from an American uni- and diplomat, was the first African versity. She earned her Ph.D. in 1921. American to head a federal department- Beauregard Stubblefield-Tave (1977) is the president of

the Division of Dependent Area Affairs. Through his work in the Stubblefield-Tave Group, a firm that consults on cultural establishing the four armistice agreements that stopped the competence and diversity. Its clients range from managed care Arab-Israeli war in the late 1940s, Bunche was the first African companies and community health centers to legal and financial American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. institutions.

* Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1953) was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from California and the first University of Michigan African American to serve in the Los Angeles County Board of * Gwendolyn Calvert Baker (1964) is a nation- Supervisors, a position she still holds. B ally known educator and activist who is the

- s P 1 ~president of Calvert Baker & Associates, an

|HHffy ~educational consulting firm specializing in

_SJSS ~global education. Baker has held the positions of director of social justice for the American

Educational Research Association, president and CEO of UNICEF, and national executive director of the YWCA of the USA.

* Keith Black (1978) is the director of neurosurgery at the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Cedar-Sinai, Dr. Black served on the UCLA faculty for 10 years. He pioneered research on designing ways to deliver chemotherapy directly into brain tumors.

* Alexa Canady (1971) is the retired chief of neurosurgery at

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the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. She was the first female African American to be licensed as a neurosurgeon in the United States.

* W. David Tarver (1975) holds several high-tech, wireless communications patents. He was cofounder and CEO of a leading wireless tech support company. After selling this business, he became a full-time advocate for underserved children in K- 12 public education as founder and president of the Red Bank Fducation and Development Initiative in New >

Jersey. *Roger Wilkins (1953) is Clarence J. Robinson /

Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University. He is also a network radio com- mentator for National Public Radio. During the Johnson administration, Wilkins served as assistant attorney general. In a distinguished journalism career, he has written for both The New York Times and The Washington Post. While on the editorial page staff of the latter, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for John E Watergate coverage with Woodward, Bernstein, and Herblock. Some of his books include A Man's Life (an autobi- ography) and Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

University of Notre Dame * Jerome "Gary" Cooper (1958) was the first African-American officer in the Marine Corps to lead an infantry company into combat while serving in Vietnam. He later served in the Alabama House of Representatives and as the state's com-

missioner for the Department of Human Resources. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Commonwealth National Bank, the first minority-owned bank in Alabama.

* Bill Hurd (1969) is a noted eye surgeon with an ophthal- mology practice in Memphis, Tennessee. He also spends time each year providing free eye treatment to the poor in Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. Hurd has also released four jazz albums.

* Alan Page (1967) was an All-American defensive lineman with the 1966 Notre Dame national championship team who then went on to play for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears. Page also attended law school while playing professional football and is now an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

* Percy A. Pierre (1961) is a professor of electrical engineering at Michigan State University. In 1967 he earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, becoming the first African American to earn a doctorate in the disci- pline.

* Christine Swanson (1994) is the award-winning writer- director of the feature film, All About You. She is also cofounder, with her husband Michael, of Faith Filmworks, a movie production and distribution company.

University of Pennsylvania Sadie T.M. Alexander (1918) was a lawyer and

champion of civil rights. She was the first black graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's law school. After she graduated, she became the first

African-American woman to practice law in the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania, the first African-American woman

elected president of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the first African-American woman in the country to re-

ceive a Ph.D. in economics. : \X * Lorene Cary (1978) is the author of several nov-

els including Pride: A Novel, The Price of a Child, ' , and Black Ice. She was recently named the winner _ / of this year's Philadelphia Award, given annually to

a Philadelphia resident who has done the most to _ "advance the best and largest interest" of the commu-

nity. She is currently a senior lecturer of creative writing Penn's in the English department of the University of Penn- dgar Wideman sylvania.

* Harold E. Ford Jr. (1992) is now serving his fourth term as a Democratic congressman from Tennessee. He was first elected in 1966 at the age of 26.

* Susan Taylor (1979) is a nationally recognized dermatolo- gist. She is the director of The Skin of Color Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York where she is also an attending physician.

* John Edgar Wideman (1963), an author, is the only person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice - once in 1984 for his novel Sent For You Yesterday and again in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. A former Rhodes scholar, Wideman is currently a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Vanderbilt University _ * Sheryll D. Cashin (1984) is a professor of law

at Georgetown University, where she teaches and writes about politics, government, and the urban poor. She is currently writing a book

about race and class segregation in America. Dur- ing the Clinton administration, Cashin was the staff director for the Community Empowerment Board in the Office of the Vice President.

* David Maurice Chatman (1985) is a vascular surgeon in Murfreesboro. Tennessee. He recently served as president of the Association of Vanderbilt Black Alumni.

* Charles Davis (1982) is the founder and owner of the Charles Davis Foundation, an organization that provides services such as tutoring, assistance with school assignments, positive role models, resources, and opportunities for achievement for Nashville youth. Davis played professional basketball with the Chicago Bulls, the Milwaukee Bucks, and the Washington Bullets during his 12-year NBA career.

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Tennessee State University in Nashville. Prior to this appointment, she was the university's women's basketball coach.

* Perry Wallace Jr. (1970) is a professor at American Uni- versity's Washington College of Law. He broke the color barri- er when he joined the university's basketball team in the late 1960s. Wallace was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame this past January.

Wake Forest University * Jocelyn Burton (1980) is the deputy chief of the civil division

IA KE r e T Of the U.S. Attorney's Office in wV AK gRE San Francisco.

* Bridget Chishohnlm (1986) is a Memphis businesswoman who owns a group of restaurants and is a partner of the Mosaic Group. She is also the former Shelby County commissioner.

* Tim Duncan (1997) is a five-time NBA All-Star for the world champion San Antonio Spurs. This past season he was named the league's most valuable player for the second year in a row.

* Frank Johnson (1981) is the head coach of the NBA Phoenix Suns. He has been a member of the team's coaching staff for the past 10 years.

Washington University * Kenneth J. Cooper (1977) is the national editor of

The Boston Globe. He was the first African-American national correspondent of the Knight-Ridder newspaper group,

covering major political stories including the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael S. Dukakis.

* Frank S. Greene Jr. (1961) is a venture capitalist, Yale electronics technologist, and high-tech business execu- Kur tive. During service with the Air Force, Greene helped develop high-performance computers for the National Security Agency.

* Henry E. Hampton Jr. (1961) came to national attention when he chronicled the history of the civil rights movement in

the United States as producer of the acclaimed six-part PBS documentary, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.

* Shelby Jordan (1974) was an offensive tackle for the NFL's New England Patriots. He retired in 1988 and became the executive director of Community Resource Talent Development, Inc., a program that develops low-income housing in conjunc- tion with the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency.

* Jonathan Weaver (1972) is president of The Collective Banking Group, which links five banks with 265 churches. The organization has made $180 million in loans to the church community.

Yale University * Ben Carson (1973) has been director of the

Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, since 1984. Carson captured worldwide media

'5JLrja~ attention in 1987 for the successful separation of conjoined twins who shared a portion of the

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same brain. * Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1973) is the W.E.B. Du Bois

>, Professor of the Humanities, chair of the Afro-American studies department, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Har- vard University. He will be spending the coming academic year as visiting professor at the Institute For Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. * Sheila Jackson Lee (1972) is serving her fourth

.... N~rterm as a U.S. representative from Texas.

[TJ * Kurt Schmoke (1971) served three terms as the

?rsity's mayor of Baltimore, from 1987 to 1999. He is cur-

moke rently dean of the law school at Howard University. * Anthony A. Williams (1979) is serving his sec-

ond term as the mayor of Washington, D.C.

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Amherst College * Charles Drew (1926) developed the technique

for the long-term preservation of blood plas- ma. He set up the first blood banks at Colum- bia University and in England. Drew became head of Howard University's department of

surgery, as well as the chief of surgery at Freedmen's Hospital.

* Charles Hamilton Houston (1915), pioneer in the school desegregation movement who fought tirelessly against the "separate but equal" principle of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision. Houston developed the strategy for many civil rights cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court

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by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and guided other black lawyers, including Thurgood Marshall, who argued and won Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

* George Johnson (1973) served as president of LeMoyne- Owen College from 1996 to 2002 and is currently a principal at Academic Search Consultation Service, a Washington, D.C., executive search firm that assists colleges and universities in recruiting their presidents and other senior academic officers.

* Hugh Price (1963) was president of the National Urban League for nine years, ending his term this past April.

* Jeffrey Wright (1987) won a Tony Award for his performance in Angels in America: Perestroika. He also starred as artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in Julian Schnabel's 1996 film Basquiat.

Bates College * Peter J. Gomes (1965) is the

^J ̂̂ y^fcl^Plummer Professor of Christian Mor-

BJ^JNH w^9 ~als and Pusey Minister in the Memor- ial Church of Harvard University.

Gomes, an American Baptist minister, is considered one of America's most distinguished preachers.

* John A. Kenney Jr. (1942) chaired Howard University's dermatology department for more than 25 years. Kenney maintained an active medical practice while becoming the nation's leading research physician in African- American dermatology.

*Benjamin E. Mays (1920) was once described by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as "my spiritual mentor and my intellectual father." Mays, a Baptist minister, was president of Morehouse College from 1940 to 1967.

* Benjamin E. Robinson II (1986) is senior vice president, strategy management executive for Bank of Amhet America. He is an expert in consumer privacy issues Cha and advises the Federal Reserve Board on its respon- sibilities under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

* Karen Hastie Williams (1966) is a prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer well known in legal and public service arenas. She is a partner in the law firm Crowell & Moring. She was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and worked as chief counsel to the U.S. Budget Committee under U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine.

Bowdoin College Geoffrey Canada (1974) is the president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone, Inc., an organization that runs an around-the-clock

c )~.A ~] P school as a safe haven for children. Canada was the recipient of the first Heinz Award in

nn nl 1994. Kenneth Chenault (1973) is the chairman and

CEO of American Express Corporation. He has held a variety of top management positions with the company for more than 20 years.

* Paul D. Miller (1992) is a New York-based musician, con- ceptual artist, and writer. He writes for The Village Voice, Art- forum, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, The Source, among others. His artwork has been shown at the Whitney Museum and the Andy Warhol Museum. Under the name "DJ Spooky," he has recorded numerous albums.

* John Brown Russwurm (1826) was the third African American to earn a college degree in the United States. He became a noted publisher and later served as governor of a colony in Liberia.

Bryn Mawr College N * Mindy T. Fullilove (1971) is a research psychi-

.:t^ * atrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and

R!F ;Q M^ a professor of clinical psychiatry and public ~ WJL thealth at Columbia University. She is

cofounder of NYC RECOVERS, an alliance of organizations concerned with the social and emo-

tional recovery of New York City in the aftermath of the Sep- tember 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Jessica B. Harris (1968) is a culinary historian, lecturer, and the author of eight cookbooks. She is a tenured

full professor in the English department at Queens J^i, College, a division of the City University of New

'~'"/ " York. * Linda A. Hill (1977) is the Wallace Brett

? ~~ ~Donham Professor of Business Administration at the _??i~r Harvard Business School. She is the author of several

.... books including Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity and Power and Influence Customized

rst College's Course Module. irles Drew * Lori A. Perine (1980) is the founder, president,

and CEO of Interpretech, an international consulting firm providing strategic advisory services and expertise to organizations facing innovation-related economic and social change. She has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Important African Americans in Technology. She was a former deputy associate director for technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Clinton administration.

Carleton College Kirbyjon Caldwell (1975) is the senior pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Under his leadership, the church has grown from 25 members to a con-

gregation of more than 14,000 today, making it the largest United Methodist congregation in

North America. He is also an author and a leader in civic and business organizations.

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* Jonathan Capehart (1989) is the deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News. He won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his work on efforts to save the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. He also served as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his successful campaign for mayor of New York City.

* Arnold Donald (1976) is chairman and CEO of Merisant Company, whose products include the leading global table-top sweetener, Equal. In July 2002, Fortune magazine named him to its list of 'The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America."

community and minority programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he held various key administration positions at the Boston University School of Medicine.

* Beth 'lrner (1963) is a theater professor and administrator at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Since 1984 she has also been publisher and editor of Black Masks, a bimonthly magazine she cofounded, featuring information about black performing, literary, and visual arts. She has written and produced several plays.

* Salimah Majeed (1968) served as the executive director of Colgate College African-American Family Services in Hennepin County, ? Todd Brown (1971) is executive vice president Minnesota, for over a decade where she became a leader in pro- of Kraft Foods North America, Inc. and presi- viding health care, counseling, and other human services to dent of the company's e-commerce division. African-American communities. * Mel Eubanks (1958) was the president of the

* Elizabeth McKune (1970) is a career foreign service offi- First Harlem Securities Corporation, cochair of cer with expertise in the Middle East and military affairs. She W.R. Lazard, and is currently senior vice presi- was the U.S. ambassador to Qatar from 1998 to 2001. She cur- dent of M.R. Beal, one of the largest minority- rently is country director for northern Arabian affairs in the owned investment banking firms in the nation. State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. * Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1931), a preeminent civil rights

leader, was the first African American to be elected to the Colby College New York City Council. As Harlem's congressman

Adam Simpson Green (1887) was from 1945 until 1971, his legislative and personal the first African-American gradu- efforts drove the desegregation of public schools, the ate of Colby College. He became military, and the U.S. Capitol buildings. a teacher and a preacher and pub- * Covette Rooney (1974) was the first African lished a poem titled 'The Negro's American and woman in Mississippi history to sit as

Past, Present & Future" for the twen- a federal administrative law judge. She continues to ty-fourth anniversary of the Emancipation serve as an administrative law judge for the Occupational

Proclamation in 1889. . Safety and Health Review Commission in Washing- * Marion Thompson Osborne (1900) became the Colgate lay te onlys ton, D.C.

first African-American woman to receive a Colby * Mel Watkins (1962) was an editor of The New degree. Osbore was a talented singer and worked as a teacher and bookkeeper before marrying.

* Charles Terrell (1970) is a nationally known consultant and lecturer on student financial management, minority recruit- ment, and admissions issues. He is currently vice president of

York Times Book Review. He is the author of several books including On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying and Signifying and his memoir, Dancing with Strangers.

Davidson College Virgil Fludd (1980) is a member of the Georgia House of

Representatives. He also owns a corporate recruiting company. * Dylan Glenn (1991) is a special assistant to President Bush

for economic policy. * Derry Harper (1976) is the chief inspector general for the

state of Florida. * Kevin Hanna (1981) is the secretary of the Office of

Housing and Neighborhood Preservation for the city of Philadelphia.

* Lester Strong (1972) is the coanchor of the evening news for WHDH-TV in Boston.

Grinnell College * Herbie Hancock (1960) is an eight-time Grammy Award

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*e wwinner. He also won an Academy Award in 1987 for his soundtrack to the film Round Midnight.

Michael J. Harris (1976) built a successful career with McDonald's Corp. before branching

out on his own. With his office in Albany, Georgia, he now owns a number of McDonald's franchises in southern Georgia.

* Merryl S. Penson (1970) is the chief librarian for the

California. Previously, he was director of engineering for Sunnyvale-based EP Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of cardiology and medical device products.

* Paul B. Vitta (1966) is the director of UNESCO's Nairobi office, a position he has held since 1992. Previously, he spent 11 years teaching physics, rising to full professor, at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

University of Georgia board of regents. She currently serves as Haverford College the executive director of library services at the University of * ? Ralph F. Boyd Jr. (1979)is the Georgia. _ assistant attorney general for

* Eric E. Whitaker (1987) was recently appointed as the civil rights, where he heads the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. A Chicago Civil Rights Division of the U.S. physician, Whitaker founded an innovative medical clinic on Department of Justice. Prior to this appointment by President the city's South Side. George W. Bush, Boyd was a partner in the Boston law finm,

* Henry Wingate (1969) became the first African American Goodwin Procter. appointed to the federal bench in the state of Mississippi in * Ted W. Love (1981) is the president and CEO of Nuvelo, 1985. Inc., a company that researches and develops biopharmaceuti-

cals to treat acute and chronic diseases. Following his med- Hamilton College ical training, Love joined the faculty of Massachusetts

.-. Maurice C. Clifford (1941), an \ General in the department of cardiology. A obstetrician and gynecologist, /\ Juan Williams (1976) is a senior correspondent to Ham it was the first black president of for National Public Radio and was, for two decades,

the Medical College of a reporter, editorial writer, and op-ed columnist for Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's first black health \ / The Washington Post. He is the author of the criti- commissioner. He made history early in his life by / cally acclaimed biography, Thurgood Marshall: becoming the first black medical intern at Philadelphia American Revolutionary and the nonfiction bestseller, General Hospital. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-

* Drew S. Days 1 (1963) is the Alfred M. Rankin Middlebury College's 1965. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. At Yale, his Ronald H. Brown * Sarah Willie (1986) is an assistant professor in the teaching and writings have been in the fields of civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, Supreme Court practice, antidis- crimination law, comparative constitutional law, and international human rights. He was solicitor general of the United States from 1993 to 1996.

* Joe S. Lewis (1975) was the dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He was recently chair of the department of art at California State University at Northridge.

* Percy R. Luney Jr. (1970) is the dean of the new Florida A&M University College of Law. He served as professor and later as dean at North Carolina Central University School of Law for nearly two decades.

* Robert Parrish Moses (1956) was a full-time organizer for the civil rights movement as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He developed the concept for the Algebra Project, which today is a nationwide outreach program to teach algebra to students in poor districts.

Harvey Mudd College * Jerome Jackson (1976) is vice president of research and development for Stellartech Research Corp. in Sunnyvale,

sociology and anthropology department at Swarth- more College. An authority on African-American culture, politics, and literature, Willie is the author of Acting Black: College, Identity and the Performance of Race.

Middlebury College * Mary Annette Anderson (1899) was the first

woman of color to graduate from Middlebury College. She became a professor and taught at Straight University in New Orleans and later at

Howard University. * Ronald H. Brown (1962) was the chairman of

the Democratic National Committee, playing a major role in Bill Clinton's presidential election bid in 1992. Brown was then appointed secretary of commerce by Clinton. Brown died in an airplane accident during a mission to rebuild the war-tor economies of the Balkan states.

* Martin Henry Freeman (1848) was the nation's first African-American college professor and president when he joined the faculty of the all-black Allegheny Institute (now Avery College) in 1850. He also became professor and president of Liberia College.

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* James L. Sweatt mI (1958) is a thoracic surgeon and serves Oberlin College on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical S C Johnnetta Betsch Cole (1957), former presi- Center. He was the first African American to be accepted at 4* dent of Spelman College, is now the president Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the

'I~ deni of Bennett College, the historically black

first appointed to the board of directors at Parkland Memorial .l-l .j .women's college in North Carolina. Hospital in Dallas. - * Fannie Jackson Coppin (1865) ran the

* Alexander Lucius Twilight (1823) was the first African- Institute for Colored Youth, a high school for American citizen to earn a degree from an American college black students in Philadelphia. She also founded a home for or university. He was a minister and educator who became the working and poor women. first African-American member of the Vermont General * Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious (1943), a Chicago civil Assembly. rights leader and lawyer, was the first assistant U.S.

Mon Holyoke attorney and deputy solicitor general. She was also the Mount Holyoke i^^^^

__ first African-American woman to graduate from the

-.*U^ --- Debra Martin Chase University of Chicago Law School. (1977) is a film producer * John Mercer ,angston (1849) was an educator, whose list of productions statesman, and lawyer who organized antislavery soci- include The Princess Diaries, eties and helped slaves escape using the Underground Courage Under Fire, and The Railroad. He is widely considered to be the first African

Preacher's Wife. American to win elective office in the United States. He was * Glenda Hatchett (1973) is a nationally syndicated Oberlin College s the founding dean of the Howard University School of

television judge. She was Georgia's first African- John Mercer Langston Law and later served Virginia in Congress. American chief presiding judge of a state court and the

department head of one of the largest juvenile court systems in the country.

* Sheryl Y. McCarthy (1969) is a columnist for Newsday, where she writes a twice-weekly opinion column. A collection of her columns was published in a book entitled Why Are the Heroes Always White?

* Suzan-Lori Parks (1985) is an author, playwright, and

recipient of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama for the play Topdog/Underdog. In 2001 Parks won a MacArthur Founda- tion genius grant.

* Gloria Johnson Powell (1958) was the first African- American woman to achieve the rank of full professor at Har- vard Medical School. She is currently the University of Wis- consin Medical School associate dean for faculty, a professor of

psychiatry and pediatrics, and director of the Center for the

Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare.

* Carl T. Rowan (1947) was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in 100 newspapers. He was the author of

eight books, including biographies of the Rev. Martin Luther

King Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He also served as deputy secretary of state under John F Kennedy and as director of the U.S. Information Agency.

Pomona College * Myrlie Evers-Williams (1968) came to Po- mona College in 1963, after the assassination of her husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers. She became a community leader and held a vari-

ety of top management positions for the Claremont College system, the Atlantic Richfield Company, and the Board of Public Works in Los Angeles.

* John Payton (1973) is a Washington, D.C., attorney and was the lead attorney representing the University of Michigan before the Supreme Court in the lawsuits that challenged the

university's affirmative action admissions policies. * George C. Wolfe (1976) is a Tony-winning producer, direc-

tor, playwright, and composer. He is known for his plays The Colored Museum, Angels in America, Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk, and Harlem Song.

Smith College Evelyn Boyd-Granville (1945) was one of the

,cv CO% first two African-American women to receive a $ C 7\ doctorate in mathematics. Granville spent

i )^MiS ~most of her career working for private and

ojIlH[Prc/ government organizations and also as a pro- DVn f/ E fessor of mathematics.

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comprehensive or ranked in any way. Obviously, there are prominent black alumni at all

colleges and universities who are not mentioned in this survey.

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* Carol Thompson Cole (1973) served for many years in the * Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1966), is the Emily Hargroves District of Columbia government. She was responsible for reor- Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard and chair of the board

ganizing eight city departments into the Office of Consumer of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is and Regulatory Affairs. She also served as the deputy mayor for the author of I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation economic development. and Respect: An Exploration.

* Adelaide Cromwell (1940) helped to establish, and later directed, Boston University's Afro-American studies program. Trinity College Now Boston University Professor Emerita of Sociology, Crom- * Joanne Epps (1973) is a tenured professor of well is the author of many historical/sociological studies of law and associate dean for academic affairs at African Americans. , Temple University. She was deputy city attor-

* Thelma Golden (1987) is the deputy director for exhibitions ney for Los Angeles and assistant U.S. attorney and programs for the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is well for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. known for her groundbreaking and controversial 1995 exhibit * Karen L. Mapp (1977) is the president of the at the Whitney Museum titled "Black Male: Represen- Institute for Responsive Education, a research, policy, and tations of Masculinity in Contemporary American advocacy organization that encourages and supports Art." S ^ school, family, and community partnerships.

* Yolanda King (1976), daughter of Dr. Martin Colleen T. Pendleton (1973) is the marketing Luther King Jr., is the founder of the theater compa- director of Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit organization ny Higher Ground Productions, which seeks to pro- that helps bring new economic opportunities to mote social change and justice through the perform- craftspeople in underdeveloped communities

ing arts. She was a founding member of Christian around the world. Theatre Artists and served for 10 years as the codirec- ? Pamela Richmond (1993) is the director of the tor, with Malcolm X's daughter Attallah Shabazz, of Office of Retention and Diversity at Pratt & Whitney NUCLEUS, a company of performing artists that trav- Swarthmore College's Power Systems, a division of United Technologies els to schools and communities to promote "positive Christopher F Edley Corporation. energy through the arts."

Swarthmore College Tralance O. Addy (1969) is the president and CEO of Plebys International, a technology- based enterprise development company tar- geting underserved markets worldwide. He is a former senior executive at Johnson &

Johnson and holds 12 U.S. patents and numerous international patents.

* Sherry F. Bellamy (1974) is vice president and general counsel for Verizon Communications. She previously was the

president and CEO of Bell Atlantic-Maryland, making her the first African-American woman to advance to that rank in the

company. * Mary Schmidt Campbell (1969) is the dean of New York

University's Tisch School of the Arts. She served as the commissioner of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York from 1987 to 1991 and was the executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is the coauthor of Harlem Renais- sance: Art of BlackAmerica and wrote Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Beardon, 1940-1987.

* Christopher F. Edley (1973) is a professor at Harvard Law School. He is the codirector of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Professor Edley is the author of NotAll Black & White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values.

* Robert B. Stepto (1966) is professor of American studies, African-American studies, and English at Yale Univer- sity. Among his publications are From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative, Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction, Chant of Saints: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art, and Scholarship, and his latest book, Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography.

Washington and Lee University * Walter S. Blake (1972) is the founder, president, and chief executive of Rockbridge Com- pany, a Dallas-based real estate advisory and development firm. He was also chairman and two-term president of the board of trustees of The Dallas County Historical Foundation, the manag-

ing body for the internationally acclaimed Kennedy assassination museum on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository, and the Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark.

* John Chavis (1799) was the first college-educated African American in the United States. He was a prominent Presbyter- ian minister.

* William B. Hill Jr. (1974) is a partner in the litigation department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Atlanta, Georgia. Hill spent 13 years with the Georgia attorney general's office, including six years as director of the criminal division and two years as deputy attorney general. He was the youngest

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division director in the history of the Georgia attorney general's office, and the first African-American attorney to represent the state of Georgia in oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.

William M. Toles (1992) is an associate with the law firm Stradley & Wright in Dallas, Texas. Prior to working at Stradley & Wright, Toles worked as a prosecutor with the Dallas City Attorney's Office.

Wellesley College Jane Bolin (1928) was the first African-American

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female judge in the United States. In 1939 New . j1 York Mayor La Guardia appointed her a judge of

the domestic relations court. Judge Bolin served ^^ .. with distinction on that court for 40 years.

* Zoe A. Bush (1976) is an associate judge on the District of Columbia Superior Court. She was appointed to the bench by President Clinton in 1994.

* Shirlee Taylor Haizlip (1959) is an author, journalist, and essayist. Her editorials, essays, and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and American Heritage. She has published two books, The Sweeter the Juice and In the Garden of Our Dreams.

* Vivian Pinn (1962) is associate director for Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health and since 1991 has been director of the Office on Women's Health at the NIH, the first person to hold this full-time position. She also has served as a professor and department chair at the Howard University College of Medicine.

* Barbara Preiskel (1945) is the former vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America who helped break down racial barriers in entertainment law. The second black woman to graduate from Yale Law School in 1947, she was a lawyer and executive with the Motion Picture Association of America from 1959 to 1983.

Wesleyan College * Terry J. Hatter Jr. (1954) was appointed to the United States

district court in California in 1979. He was the first black assistant U.S. attorney for the northern district of California. He also was a professor at Loyola University School of Law.

Jay Hoggard (1976) is a jazz musician and band leader who has worked with Tito Puente, the Dizzy Gillespie Band, Anthony Braxton, and Chico Freeman. He has recorded more than 40 albums. Hoggard is currently a professor at Wesleyan University, teaching music theory and directing the jazz orchestra.

* Theodore M. Shaw (1976) is the associate director-counsel of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

* Chuck Stone (1948) is the Walter Spearman Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stone is a political analyst for WTVD-TV in Durham. Stone has authored three books on the black political experience in the United States: Tell It Like It Is, Black Political Power in America, and King Strut. He was the first black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and later its first black senior editor.

* Beverly Daniel Tatum (1975) is the president of Spelman College. She has spent 22 years in higher education and previously served as dean of Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race and Assim- ilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community.

Williams College Gaius Bolin (1889) was the first black

graduate of Williams. He became a lawyer and founded the Dutchess County, New York, chapter of the NAACP.

Sterling A. Brown (1922) was a poet and literary critic during the Harlem Ren-

aissance. His poetry was influenced by jazz, the blues, work songs, and Negro spirituals. Brown, who was also a professor of English at Howard University, was the author of Southern Road and The Last Ride of Wild Bill.

Allison Davis (1924) was the first African American to be granted tenure at a northern, predominantly white college or university. He was a member of the University of Chicago faculty from 1942 until his death in 1983.

* Gordon J. Davis (1963) was cofounder of the Central Park Conservancy and served as commissioner of Parks and Recre- ation in New York City under Mayor Ed Koch. He currently practices law in New York.

* Rayford W. Logan (1917) was a historian and professor of history at Howard University. He was the coeditor of the Dictionary of American Negro Biography. His best-known work is The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901. IJBHE:|

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