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The list Rust College alumni includes Alvin Childress, Anita Ward, Ida B. Wells, Clinton LeSueur and Ruby Elzy. The list consists of 20 members and 1 sublist.

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Rust College
Historically black college in Mississippi, US
  • 1.

    Alvin Childress
    American actor
    Alvin Childress
    Overview: Alvin Childress (September 15, 1907 – April 19, 1986) was an American actor, who is best known for playing the cabdriver Amos Jones in the 1950s television comedy series Amos 'n Andy.
    Date of birth: 10 September 1907
    Date of death: 19 April 1986
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Burials at National Harmony Memorial Park 11T
    Male actors from Mississippi 54T
    African-American male actors 1,377T
  • 2.

    Anita Ward
    American singer and musician (born 1956)
    Anita Ward
    Overview: Anita Ward (born December 20, 1956 or 1957) is an American singer and musician from Memphis, Tennessee. Beginning her professional music career in the late 1970s, Ward is best known for her 1979 milli ...
    Date of birth: 20 December 1956
    Age: 68
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Stephen R. Richardson (Married)
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    20th-century African-American women singers 831T
    21st-century African-American women 3,574T
    21st-century African-American people 4,746T
  • 3.

    Ida B. Wells
    Social Reformer
    Ida B. Wells
    Overview: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National ...
    Date of birth: 16 July 1862
    Date of death: 25 March 1931
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century American women educators 199T
    American women sociologists 259T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
  • 4.

    Ruby Elzy
    American opera singer
    Ruby Elzy
    Overview: Ruby Pearl Elzy (February 20, 1908 – June 26, 1943) was a pioneer American operatic soprano.
    Date of birth: 20 February 1908
    Date of death: 26 June 1943
    Age: 35 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    African-American female opera singers 57T
    20th-century women opera singers 1,242T
    20th-century American opera singers 581T
  • 5.

    Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler
    African-American pharmacist
    Overview: Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (December 8, 1907 – November 19, 1997) was an African-American pharmacist, the first black woman licensed in Iowa. She also became the first African-American woman from Iowa to ...
    Date of birth: 8 December 1907
    Date of death: 19 November 1997
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Chemist
    Gender: Female
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  • 6.

    Leslie B. McLemore
    American mayor
    Leslie B. McLemore
    Overview: Leslie Burt McLemore (born August 17, 1940) is an American civil rights activist and political leader from Jackson, Mississippi. He served as interim mayor of Jackson following the death of Frank Melton ...
    Date of birth: 17 August 1940
    Age: 84
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    African-American mayors in Mississippi 14T
    People from Walls, Mississippi 6T
    African-American people in Mississippi politics 25T
  • 7.

    Lucie Campbell
    American composer and educator
    Overview: Lucie Eddie Campbell (Lucie Eddie Campbell-Williams) (April 30, 1885 – January 3, 1963) was an American composer and singer of hymns, as well as an educator and advocate for social justice.
    Date of birth: 30 April 1885
    Date of death: 3 January 1963
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Female
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    American women hymnwriters 66T
    20th-century American women musicians 816T
    People from Duck Hill, Mississippi 4T
  • 8.

    Clinton LeSueur
    Journalist
    Overview: Clinton Bernard LeSueur (born March 2, 1969) is an American politician and journalist. A native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, he resides in Washington, D.C.
    Date of birth: 1969
    Age: 56
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    African-American people in Mississippi politics 25T
    Politicians from Greenville, Mississippi 14T
    American University School of Public Affairs alumni 49T
  • 9.

    Darion Duncombe
    Bahamian sprinter
    Overview: Darion Duncombe (born January 16, 1990) is a male track and field athlete from Freeport, Bahamas who mainly competes in the 100m and 200 and 400m. He attended Sunland Baptist Academy and Tabernacle Baptist ...
    Date of birth: 16 January 1990
    Age: 35
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  • 10.

    Albert C. Johnston
    American doctor
    Overview: Albert C. Johnston (died 1988) was a doctor who, along with his family, passed as white in Gorham and then Keene, New Hampshire. William Lindsay White wrote a Readers Digest article about the family and ...
    Date of death: 1988
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  • 11.

    Ida Revels Redmond
    American politician
    Overview: Ida Alcorn Revels Redmond (19 May or July 1873 – 21 or 23 May 1914) was a teacher and women's organizer in the United States. She encouraged self-improvement efforts through civic, education and social ...
    Date of birth: July 1873
    Date of death: 23 May 1914
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 12.

    Green Polonius Hamilton
    American educator
    Overview: Green Polonius Hamilton (1867 - 1932) was an American educator, principal, and author who was prominent in the African-American community of Memphis, Tennessee.
    Date of birth: 1867
    Date of death: 1932
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 13.

    Godwin Maduka
    Nigerian doctor, businessman and philanthropist
    Godwin Maduka
    Overview: Godwin Maduka (born 1959), is a Nigerian-American doctor, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Center. In 2008, he played a major role in the renaming ...
    Date of birth: 1959
    Age: 66
    Nationality: Nigerian
    Occupation: Philanthropist
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  • 14.

    Cheryl Pruitt
    American educator (born 1963)
    Cheryl Pruitt
    Overview: Cheryl Pruitt is an American educator and advocate for alternative education. She was Superintendent of the Gary Community School Corporation from 2012 to 2018, and she has served in executive roles for ...
    Date of birth: 17 March 1963
    Age: 62
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 15.

    Susie Revels Cayton
    American writer, editor and activist (1870–1943)
    Susie Revels Cayton
    Overview: Susie Revels Cayton (1870 – 1943) was a writer, editor, activist, and leader in the Black community in Seattle at the start of the 20th century.
    Date of birth: 1870
    Date of death: 1943
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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  • 16.

    Perry Wilbon Howard
    Mississippi lawyer and civil rights activist
    Overview: Perry Wilbon Howard, II (June 14, 1877 – February 1, 1961), was an American attorney from Mississippi and partner of a prominent law firm in Washington, D.C. He served as the longtime Republican National ...
    Date of birth: 14 June 1877
    Date of death: 1 February 1961
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    African-American people in Mississippi politics 25T
    Lawyers from Jackson, Mississippi 36T
    African-Americans' civil rights activists 969T
  • 17.

    Jim Thomas (Canadian football)
    Canadian football player
    Overview: Jim "Long Gone" Thomas (December 18, 1938 – October 4, 2015) was an American gridiron football player and coach. He played professionally as a running back for nine seasons in the Canadian Football League ...
    Date of birth: 18 December 1938
    Date of death: 4 October 2015
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Occupation: Football (American)
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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  • 18.

    Alexander Preston Shaw
    American bishop
    Overview: Alexander Preston Shaw (April 8, 1879 % died March 7, 1996) was notable as an African-American pastor, editor, and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church. He was elected and ...
    Date of birth: 1879
    Date of death: 1966
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    People from Abbeville, Mississippi 6T
    Activists from Mississippi 23T
    African-Americans' civil rights activists 969T
  • 19.

    Amanda Elzy
    African-American educator
    Overview: Amanda Belle Elzy (unknown - 2004) was a pioneering African-American educator. She graduated from Rust High School in 1929 and from Rust College in 1934. She worked as Supervisor of Negro Schools in Leflore ...
    Date of death: 2004
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 20.

    Sidney Dillon Redmond
    American physician and politician (1871–1948)
    Sidney Dillon Redmond
    Overview: Sidney Dillon Redmond (October 11, 1871 – February 11, 1948) was an American civic leader, physician, lawyer, and politician from Jackson, Mississippi. He was an important African American community leader ...
    Date of birth: 11 October 1871
    Date of death: 11 February 1948
    Age: 76 (age at death)
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    Mississippi Republicans 343T
    1871 births 3,781T
    1948 deaths 3,753T
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