Maker Directory

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CivicMakers

Effie Lee Morris

Library Administrator

CivicMakers, EducationMakers

Harold Pates

Cultural Activist, College President, Teacher

ArtMakers

Angela Jackson

Playwright, Poet

PoliticalMakers

Barbara Ann Lumpkin

City Treasurer

ScienceMakers

Larry Gladney

Physicist

ArtMakers

Martha Brock-Leftridge

Photographer

CivicMakers

Hellen O'Neal-McCray

Civil Rights Activist

MusicMakers

Charley Pride

Country Singer, Country Music Singer

EducationMakers

Louis Rabb

Academic Administrator

EducationMakers

Rachel Noel

Education Chief Executive

MediaMakers

Mary Cherry

Production Worker, Publisher

LawMakers

Elaine Jones

Civil Rights Lawyer

MusicMakers

Philip Cohran

Trumpet Player

ScienceMakers

Ronald Mickens

Physicist

LawMakers

The Honorable Frankie Freeman

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner

ArtMakers

Zonia T. Way

Interior Design Consultant

MusicMakers

Benjamin Wright

Music Director, Conductor, Music Arranger

EducationMakers

Yvonne Sanders-Butler

Health Advocate, Elementary School Principal

ArtMakers

Billie Allen

Actress, Stage Director

ArtMakers

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Fiction Writer

PoliticalMakers, EducationMakers

The Honorable Hazel O'Leary

Cabinet Appointee, University President

SportsMakers

Earl Francis Lloyd

Basketball Player

MilitaryMakers

Herbert Carter

Tuskegee Airman

ArtMakers

Naomi Long Madgett

Poet, English Professor

MusicMakers

Lessly "Count" Fisher

Bandleader

BusinessMakers

William M. Lewis, Jr.

Corporate Executive, Investment Chief Executive

MediaMakers

John Heidelberg

Radio DJ, Broadcast Executive

EducationMakers

Charlestine Fairley

Academic Administrator

CivicMakers

Gloria Burgess

Poet, Business Consultant, Arts Administrator, Nonprofit Executive

EducationMakers

Joyce Moore Gray

Education Consultant, Principal

EducationMakers

Maxine B. Mimms

Academic Administrator, Education Professor

CivicMakers, EducationMakers

Robert T. Starks

Social Activist, Professor

CivicMakers

Andrew Heidelberg

Banker, Civic Leader, Cultural Heritage Lecturer

PoliticalMakers

The Honorable William E. Ward

History Professor, Political Organizer, Mayor

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Imam Vernon Fareed

Civic Leader, Imam

SportsMakers

Ralph Sampson

Basketball Player

ScienceMakers, MilitaryMakers

Col. James Stith

Physicist, Colonel

CivicMakers

Marlene Randall

City Government Administrator

EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Patricia Turner

Middle School Teacher, Civil Rights Activist

StyleMakers, MediaMakers

Dori Wilson

Fashion Model, Public Relations Executive

MediaMakers

Ovie Carter

Photojournalist

EducationMakers

Thomas C. Holt

African American History Professor

MusicMakers, ArtMakers

Freddi Evans

Author, Music Therapist

BusinessMakers

Cullen L. Dubose

Construction Executive

BusinessMakers

Elyse White

Travel Agent, Medical Social Worker

BusinessMakers

Reuben R. McDaniel

Professor

MedicalMakers

Dr. Robert J. Bacon, Sr.

Urologist

MediaMakers

Mary Mitchell

Newspaper Columnist

BusinessMakers

Robert James

Bank Executive

MusicMakers

Fruteland Jackson

Blues Musician