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Sheryl Patrice Underwood (born October 28, 1963) is an American comedian, actress and television host. She first rose to prominence in the comedy world as the first female finalist in 1989's Miller Lite ...
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A. Doris Banks Henries (February 11, 1913 – February 16, 1981) was an American educator and writer in Liberia, and Assistant Minister of Education during the Tolbert administration.
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Pearl Anna Neal (October 10, 1900 – January 31, 1978) was an American music educator and one of the founding members or "Five Pearls" of the sorority Zeta Phi Beta in 1920.
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Martha Broadus Anderson (1875 – January 11, 1967), later Martha B. Anderson-Winn or Martha B. Winn, was an American singer based in Chicago, and vice-president of the National Association of Negro Musicians ...
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Alyce Chenault Gullattee (June 28, 1928 – April 30, 2020) was an American psychiatrist, medical school professor, activist, and expert on addiction. She was a faculty member in the psychiatry department ...
American educator and theatre professional (1900–1993)
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Nellie A. Buchanan (July 18, 1900 – August 1, 1993) was an American educator and theatre professional. She was the fourth international president of the historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta, serving ...
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Violette Neatley Anderson (July 16, 1882 – December 24, 1937)she became the first African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926. She was one of the most ...
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Charlotte Gilmore Durante (aka Mama Charlotte) (born April 19, 1944, in Forkland, Alabama) was elected in 1978 the first African American woman City Commissioner in Delray Beach, Florida. The City of ...
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Viola Margaret Tyler Goings (August 29, 1899 – March 9, 1983) was an American educator, and one of the "Five Pearls", the five founding members of the Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in 1920.
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Ruth Eliza Tappe Scruggs (August 4, 1893 – July 2, 1980) was an American clubwoman. She was the sixth national president (Grand Basileus) of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, in office from 1926 to 1930.
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Susan "Susie" Russell Quander (September 20, 1882 – May 1973) was an American educator, churchworker, and clubwoman. She worked with Carter G. Woodson and Charles H. Wesley on running the Association for ...
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Joanna Raynor Houston (July 9, 1897 – September 1980), later Joanna Houston Ransom, was an American English instructor, college administrator, assistant dean of women at Howard University, third Grand ...
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Arizona Cleaver Stemons (1898 – March 1980), born Arizona Leedonia Cleaver, was an American social worker. While she was a student at Howard University in 1920, she was one of the five founding members ...
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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (ΖΦΒ) is an International collegiate sorority that is historically African American. In 1920, five women from Howard University envisioned a sorority that would raise the ...