Prominent Sorors

Mae Jemison, M.D., Astronaut and businesswoman

Dr. Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990

Marjorie Judith Vincent, Miss America 1991

Suzette Charles, Miss America 1984

Coretta Scott King, Activist

Lynn Whitfield, Actress

Jada Pinkett Smith, Actress

Sonia Sanchez, Author and poet

Ella Fitzgerald, Internationally famous jazz singer

Eleanor Roosevelt, activist and wife of former President Franklin D. Rooselvelt

Hazel O'Leary, US Secretary of Energy

Dr. Marilyn Hughes-Gaston, Assistant Surgeon General

Lt. Col. Anita McMiller, Deputy Legislative Assistant to Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Sharon Pratt Kelly, The first woman to serve as mayor of Washington, D. C.

Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke, Former Congresswoman from California and first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention

Diane Watson, The first Black woman to preside over the California State Senate

Angie Brookes, The first woman President of the United Nations

Toni Morrison, Author and Nobel laureate

Maya Angelou, Poet

Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Zina Garrison, Tennis star

Phylicia Rashad, Actress

Bebe Moore Campbell, Author

Jomarie Payton Noble, Humanitarian and actress

Leah Tutu, Wife of South African activist Bishop Desmond Tutu

Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant, Essence columnist

C. Delores Tucker, National Chairman of the National Political Congress of Black Women

Jewell Jackson McCabe, President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women

Gwendolyn Calvert Baker, Ph.D., President of the United States Committee for UNICEF

Bettiann Gueno Gardner, Co-Chiarman of Soft Sheen Products, Inc.

Janice Huff, NBC Meteorologist and St. Louis Emmy Award Winner

Marva Collins, Founder of her own private school on Chicago's west side

Alicia Keys, Singer and poet

Wanda Sykes, Actress and comedian

Vanessa Bell Calloway, Actress

Star Jones, former co-host of The View, lawyer, former Supreme Anti-Grammateus of Alpha Kappa Alpha, former legal analyst for Inside Edition, Today and Nightly News

Gladys Knight, Singer

Dejuanna S. Burrows, Teacher of the Year

Janet Hammond-Ryder, Labor Relations Advocate

Althea Gibson, World Tennis Champion

Tonique Williams-Darling, Olympic Gold Medalist

Michelle Nichols, Actress/Activist played Lt. Uhura on the TV show "Star Trek"

Jane Addams, Nobel Prize Winner, founder of the Hull House in Chicago

Loretta Divine, Actress, starred in movies such as "Waiting to Exhale" and "Kingdom Come"

Chamique Holdsclaw, Basketball player, plays for the Washington Mystics

Vonetta Flowers, Gold medalist first African-American woman to win a gold medal in Bobsledding

Alice Walker, Author/Civil Rights Activist, author of "The Color Purple" and Pulitzer Prize winner

Roxie Roker, Actress who played Helen on TV show "The Jeffersons", and mother of Rock star Lenny Kravitz

Marla Gibbs, Actress who played Florence on "The Jeffersons" and Mary on the TV show "227"

Yvette Lee-Bowser, TV Producer, Produced TV shows "Hangin with Mr Cooper," "Living Single," "A Different World," and "For Your Love"

Suzanne DePasse, Chairman CEO and Former manager for the Jackson 5, Chairman CEO, for DePasse Entertainment

Iyanla Vanzant, Author, Inspirational Speaker, Founder and Director of Inner Visions of Spiritual Development and appears in TV show "Starting Over"

Faye Wattleton, First African-American President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Contance Baker-Motley, Politician, First African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate

Marian Anderson, First African American poet to read at a presidential inauguration

Tajuana Butler, Author of "Sorority Sisters" and "The Night Before Thirty"

Georgiana Simpson, First African-American woman to earn a PhD

Shirlee Tailor, Author of "The Sweeter the Juice"

Dr. Donda West, Mother of Hip-Hop superstar Kanye West, Co-Founder and Chair of the Kanye West Foundation