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This is a list of notable alumni of
Shaw University in
Raleigh, North Carolina .
Notable alumni
Academics
Ezekiel Ezra Smith (A.B. 1878), president of
Fayetteville State University and U.S. Ambassador to
Liberia (1888–1890)
[1]
Edward Hart Lipscombe (A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882), educator, minister, principal of the Western Union Institute[
citation needed ]
Charles L. Purce , (A.B.) president of
Selma University and
Simmons College of Kentucky
[2]
James B. Dudley (A.B. 1881), professor and president of
North Carolina A&T State University (1896–1925)
[3]
Peter Weddick Moore (A.B. 1887), founder and first president of Elizabeth City Normal College, (now
Elizabeth City State University )
[4]
James E. Shepard (A.B. 1894), founder and first president of
North Carolina Central University
[5]
John O. Crosby (1914), founder and first president of North Carolina A&T State University
[6]
Benjamin Arthur Quarles (B.A. 1931), historian, administrator, scholar, educator, and writer
[7]
James E. Cheek (B.A. 1955), president of Shaw University, president emeritus of
Howard University , 1983 recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
[8]
William L. Pollard (B.A. 1967), president of the
Medgar Evers College (2009–2013)[
citation needed ]
Arts and entertainment
Business
Calvin E. Lightner (1907 or 1908), architect and mortician
[12]
Ida Van Smith (1939), one of the first African American female pilots and flight instructors in the US
[13]
Lee Johnson (1975), president and CEO of
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
[14]
Celeste Beatty (1984), first black female brewery owner
[15]
Willie Otey Kay (1912), prominent dressmaker in Raleigh
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]
Civil rights
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]
Henry Plummer Cheatham (A.B. 1882),
Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives 1889–1893
[21]
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , (D.D. 1934), Congressman from New York, 1945–71
[22]
Angie Brooks (B.S. 1949), first African female
President of the United Nations General Assembly and Associate Justice to the National Supreme Court of
Liberia
[23]
George H. Jackson , Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1892 to 1893
[24]
Rita Walters (1952), member of Board of Library Commissioners for the Los Angeles Public Library
[25]
Vernon Malone (1953),
Democratic member of the
North Carolina General Assembly , 14th Senate district, including constituents in
Wake County
[26]
Charles D. Walton (B.A. 1971), first African-American member of the
Rhode Island Senate
[27]
Luther Jordan (B.A. 1997), member of the
North Carolina Senate 1993–2002
[28]
Thomas O. Fuller , state senator of the
North Carolina Senate in 1898
[29]
Law
Journalism
Religion
Science and medicine
Sports
Presidents of Shaw University
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