Alyssa Lane (B.A. 2012), professional wrestler performing in WWE as
Kayden Carter.
Lords of the Underground (attended), hip-hop group that was founded in the early 1990s, when all three of its members were students attending Shaw University.[11]
William Gaston Pearson (1886), prominent principal, colloquially referred to as "Durham's Black Superintendent", in
Durham, NC, and co-founder of Mechanics & Farmers Bank.[16]
Eleanor Nunn, Ph.D., Civil rights activist (one of founders of SNCC) and educator, North Carolina State University.
Government
Edward A. Johnson (B.L. 1891), first African-American member of the New York state legislature when he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1917.[19]
Col.
James H. Young, prominent North Carolina politician and first African American to hold the rank of colonel in the United States of the volunteer regiment during the
Spanish–American War.[20]
Dr.
John Eagles, pharmacy owner in Raleigh, North Carolina and son of
John S. W. Eagles, sergeant in U.S.C.T., public official, and state legislator in North Carolina
Alyssa Lane (B.A. 2012), professional wrestler performing in WWE as
Kayden Carter.
Lords of the Underground (attended), hip-hop group that was founded in the early 1990s, when all three of its members were students attending Shaw University.[11]
William Gaston Pearson (1886), prominent principal, colloquially referred to as "Durham's Black Superintendent", in
Durham, NC, and co-founder of Mechanics & Farmers Bank.[16]
Eleanor Nunn, Ph.D., Civil rights activist (one of founders of SNCC) and educator, North Carolina State University.
Government
Edward A. Johnson (B.L. 1891), first African-American member of the New York state legislature when he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1917.[19]
Col.
James H. Young, prominent North Carolina politician and first African American to hold the rank of colonel in the United States of the volunteer regiment during the
Spanish–American War.[20]
Dr.
John Eagles, pharmacy owner in Raleigh, North Carolina and son of
John S. W. Eagles, sergeant in U.S.C.T., public official, and state legislator in North Carolina