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Notable Members

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 Kamala Harris - The FIRST female Vice President of the United States of America. 

Rosa Parks - Civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement

Maya Angelou - an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. 

Toni Morrison- an American novelist, editor, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald - an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella

Mae Carol Jemison - an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel in space 

Georgiana Rose Simpson - a philologist and the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in the United States

Marietta Tree - an American socialite and political supporter, who represented the United States on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

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