Prominent Sorors

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Soror Marian Anderson- First African-American woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera

Soror Maya Angelou - first African-American poet to read at a presidential inauguration, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, award winning novelist and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America

Dr. Gwendolyn Calbert Baker, PhD. -President of the United States Committee for UNICEF

Soror Suzette Charles -Miss America 1984, contemporary singer and actress

Soror Ella Fitzgerald - Internationally famous classical jazz artist, named outstanding performer of the year for eighteen consecutive years by Downbeat Magazine, the jazz industry bible and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America

Soror Zina Garrison-Tennis Star

Soror Chamique Holdsclaw- Basketball Player for the Washington Mystics and Author of a book that Chronicles her success

Janice Huff -NBC Meteorologist and St Louis Emmy Award Winner

Dr. Marilyn Hughes-Gaston, M.D. -Assistant Surgeon General

Dr. Mae Jemison- First African-American woman astronaut

Soror Star Jones – Former co-host of The View talk show, lawyer, former legal analyst for Inside Edition, Today and Nightly News

Soror Coretta Scott King - activist and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism and founder of The National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc.

Lt. Col. Anita McMiller- Deputy Legislative Assistant to Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff

Soror Toni Morrison - author of Pulitzer Prize winning Beloved, first African-American to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Soror Rosa Parks - mother of the Civil Rights Movement and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America.

Soror Suzanne de Passe- Chairman and CEO of de Passe Entertainment

Soror Jomarie Payton Noble - humanitarian and actress, star of Family Matters.

Soror Jada Pinkett-Smith - accomplished actress whose movies include Set it Off, Menace to Society, and Jason's Lyric.

Soror Phylicia Rashad - actress staring on the award winning Cosby Show and Cosby television series

Soror Sonia Sanchez - author and poet

Soror Wanda Sykes-Emmy-winning American stand-up comedian and actress

Soror Leah Tutu - Wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu

Soror Alice Walker - Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple, Civil Rights Activist, poet, and honored in Fifty Black Women Who Changed America

Soror Lynn Whitfield- Humanitarian and actress staring in The Josephine Baker Story, Thin Line between Love and Hate, and Eve's Bayou