Maker Directory

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ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles

Civil Rights Activist, Pastor

CivicMakers

Junius "Red" Gaten

Social Activist, Labor Activist, Community Activist

ArtMakers

Useni Eugene Perkins

Poet, Foundation Chief Executive, Writer

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Calvin Morris

Social Activist, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Minister, Theologian, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Harold Rogers

Social Activist, African American Studies Professor

CivicMakers

Iva Carruthers

Sociologist

CivicMakers

Dorothy Runner

Civic Volunteer

CivicMakers

Ernest Green

Investment Executive, Civil Rights Leader

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers, ReligionMakers

The Honorable Reverend Walter Fauntroy

Civil Rights Leader, U.S. Congressman, Pastor

CivicMakers

Porter G. Peeples

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Harry Sykes

Civic Leader, City Council Member

LawMakers, CivicMakers

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Civil Rights Lawyer, Civil Rights Leader, Business Leader, Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Badi Foster

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Academic Administrator, Educator, Nonprofit Executive, Civic Leader

CivicMakers

William Layton

Historian, Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Maycie Herrington

Social Worker, Historian, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Audrey Grevious

Civil Rights Activist, High School Teacher, Association Executive

ArtMakers

Kalamu ya Salaam

Poet, Music Critic

CivicMakers

Sidney L. Rushing

City Government Administrator

CivicMakers

Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.

Social Activist, Family Practitioner, Consumer Activist

PoliticalMakers, CivicMakers

Lillie Mae Wesley

City Parks Administrator, Community Activist

CivicMakers

Katie Booth

Civic Leader

ArtMakers

Eloise Demaris Hughes

Dancer

CivicMakers

Dale Clinton

Community Activist, Community Resource Specialist

CivicMakers

Maulana Karenga

Social Activist, Africana Studies Professor, Author, Community Activist

CivicMakers

Ernest McBride

Civil Rights Activist, Community Leader

ArtMakers

Zenobia Washington

Doll Artist

CivicMakers

William E. Lowry, Jr.

Foundation Executive

CivicMakers

Rufus W. McKinney

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Irma Josephine Barber

City Government Employee, Seamstress

ArtMakers

Geraldine McCullough

Art Professor, Painter, Sculptor

ArtMakers

Thomas Miller

Graphic Designer, Painter

CivicMakers

Marlene Rankin

Foundation Chief Executive, Social Worker

CivicMakers

Carol L. Adams

Museum Director, Nonprofit Executive, Community Activist

ArtMakers

Sterling Plumpp

Jazz and Blues Poet, African American Studies Professor, English Professor

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician

CivicMakers

Howard Dodson

Historian, Library Director

PoliticalMakers, CivicMakers

Janis F. Kearney

Presidential Appointee, Presidential Diarist

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

Playwright, High School English Teacher, Theater Professor, Theater Director, Arts Administrator

CivicMakers

Amy Tate Billingsley

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Anne Ashmore-Hudson

Civic Leader

ArtMakers

Frank Lucas

Graphic Designer

ArtMakers

Woodie King, Jr.

Stage Director, Theater Director

ArtMakers

Elma Lewis

Theater Chief Executive

ArtMakers

Florence Ladd

Fiction Writer, Academic Administrator

ArtMakers

Sonia Sanchez

Poet, English Professor

CivicMakers

Gloria Owens Hemphill

Foundation Executive, Education Administrator, Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Julius Wayne Dudley

Foundation Chief Executive, History Professor, Community Activist

CivicMakers

Alma Arrington Brown

Bank Executive

CivicMakers

Mildred Cruzat

Community Leader, Civic Leader