Thirty-four black women are expected to graduate from West Point as the class of 2019, that will be the largest class of black women to graduate together in the military academy’s history.

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Medgar Evers, 1925 – 1963 when he was assassinated. Civil rights activist and field secretary for NAACP in Mississippi.

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Tobechukwu “Tobi” Phillips earned a 6.9 GPA and became the first black Valedictorian in Alvin High School’s 125 year history in 2019.

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Cornel West is an author, activist, social critic, philosopher and intellectual.

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Barbara Boyd was the first Black woman television journalist in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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James Farmer co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality (CORE), Chicago; 1942-44.  

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Adrienne Jones, a Maryland lawmaker, made history when she became the first woman and first black person elected as the state’s House speaker in 2019.

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Kenyan writer, author, journalist, and queer rights activist Binyavanga Wainaina, 1971 – 2019.

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Coy Payne served two terms as Mayor of Chandler becoming the first black mayor of Arizona from 1990 to 1994.

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Vivienne Malone-Mayes, Ph.D., (1932 – 1995) became Baylor University’s first black faculty member in 1966.

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