Maker Directory

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CivicMakers

The Honorable Julian Bond

Association Chief Executive, State Senator, Civil Rights Activist, State Representative, Librarian

MediaMakers

Vernon Jarrett

Newspaper Columnist, Television Host, Radio Host

BusinessMakers

Frank Greene, Jr.

Entrepreneur, Investment Chief Executive

MusicMakers

Carl Hines

Math Teacher, Jazz Musician

ReligionMakers, CivicMakers

Reverend Clay Evans

Minister, Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Ulysses Ford

Business Consulting Chief Executive, City Government Administrator

MedicalMakers

Dr. Harold Freeman

Oncologist

MediaMakers

Holmes "Daddy-O" Daylie

Radio Personality

BusinessMakers

R. Donahue Peebles

Real Estate Entrepreneur

MediaMakers

Bob Petty

Television Reporter

LawMakers, MilitaryMakers

The Honorable John Rogers, Sr.

Juvenile Court Judge, Tuskegee Airman

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Larry Bullock

State Representative

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Jesse Madison

State Representative

BusinessMakers

Barbara Bowles

Investment Manager

SportsMakers

Ricardo Patton

College Basketball Coach

ArtMakers

LeRoy Winbush

Graphic Designer

MedicalMakers

Dr. James Bowman

Medical Professor, Pathologist, Geneticist

CivicMakers

Matthew Little

Association Branch Chief Executive, Civil Rights Activist, Association Executive

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr.

Mayor

ArtMakers

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

LawMakers

Willie Leftwich

Lawyer

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers, ReligionMakers

The Honorable Reverend Walter Fauntroy

Civil Rights Leader, U.S. Congressman, Pastor

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Melvin L. Watt

U.S. Congressman

CivicMakers

Maycie Herrington

Social Worker, Historian, Nonprofit Executive

LawMakers

Julius Chambers

Civil Rights Lawyer

MediaMakers

Gerald Johnson

Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive

ArtMakers, MusicMakers

Howard Armstrong

Painter, Country and Blues Musician

EducationMakers

James Cheek

University President

ArtMakers

Erma L. Clanton

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

EducationMakers

Ruth Brett Quarles

Academic Administrator

MediaMakers

Dorothy B. Gilliam

Newspaper Columnist

LawMakers

Charles T. Duncan

Government Lawyer, Law Professor, Lawyer

BusinessMakers

Kent B. Amos

Corporate Executive, Education Chief Executive, Elementary School Principal

ArtMakers

Florence Ladd

Fiction Writer, Academic Administrator

MediaMakers

Paul Brock

Photojournalist, Journalist

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Edward Brooke

U.S. Senator

MilitaryMakers

Roscoe C. Brown

Academic Administrator, Tuskegee Airman

LawMakers

Thurbert Baker

State Attorney General

EducationMakers

Elnora D. Daniel

University President

EducationMakers

Richard E. Stephenson, Jr.

School Superintendent

CivicMakers

Eddie Williams

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers, BusinessMakers

Fred Davis

Insurance Entrepreneur, City Council Member, Civil Rights Leader, Entrepreneur

MedicalMakers

Dr. Leslie D. Duke, Sr.

General Practitioner

EducationMakers

Richard Fairley

Federal Education Executive

MediaMakers

Herman Marrel Foushee

Financial Chief Executive, Radio Host

LawMakers

Rita Aliese Fry

Public Defender

EducationMakers

Marshall Grigsby

Academic Administrator, Theologian, Education Chief Executive, Education Policy Consultant, College President

EducationMakers

Thelma Groomes

Middle School Teacher

MusicMakers

Isaac Hayes

Film Actor, Musician and Singer, Film Score Composer

EducationMakers

Charlene Drew Jarvis

University President