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- 1860.0 (dbd:second)
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- Former NFL player (en)
- Civil rights activist, community development leader, author, National Urban League director, "Genius Grant" winner, founder and president of the Woodson Center that supports neighborhood-based initiatives to revitalize low-income communities, who holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Pennsylvania (en)
- Former State Representative for the 190th district in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. (en)
- Lieutenant General, Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs for the United States Marine Corps; second three-star general of African-American heritage in the USMC. (en)
- Prominent African-American architect. Upon Abele's graduation in 1902 as the first black student in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Abele designed or contributed to the design of some 250 buildings, including Harvard’s Widener Memorial Library, Duke University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and many Gilded Age mansions in Newport and New York City. (en)
- State Representative for the 159th district in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. (en)
- Award-winning playwright. (en)
- Dickerson-Hill was an artist who painted in the Japanese brush technique sumi-e. She graduated from Cheyney State Teachers College in 1940 and taught elementary grades in the Philadelphia School District before becoming a full-time painter. Her mediums included watercolor, oil and acrylics. She als produced prints. She participated in major exhibitions for Black artists in Philadelphia in 1969 and Washington, DC, in 1971, as well as local shows. She won awards from the Sumi-e Society of America. (en)
- President/CEO of The Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest black newspaper in circulation today. (en)
- Openly gay African-American civil rights activist (en)
- Graduated from Cheyney State College in 1962. Playwright, theatre director, actor, and educator; member of the Black Arts Movement and author of One Monkey Don't Stop No Show. (en)
- Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth in 1863 . She graduated from Women's Medical College in 1867 with a medical degree. Cole was the second African-American woman physician in the United States and the first black woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. (en)
- Member of the Cheyney University Athletic Hall of Fame; current head coach of University of Maryland, Baltimore County men's basketball. (en)
- African-American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Associate Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, and as the first black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in Oakland, California (en)
- Former CBS News journalist of the program 60 Minutes (en)
- Emmy Award-winning anchorman. Vance was inducted into the Journalists Hall of Fame. (en)
- Catto was the class valedictorian in 1858 at the Institute for Colored Youth . An activist, Catto was influential in getting the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed in 1870 which gave black men the right to vote. Catto is also the founder of the first black baseball team in the United States and an early member of the National Equal Rights League . (en)
- African American writer, teacher, and civil rights advocate whose primary education was at the Institute for Colored Youth . (en)
- The inspiration behind the hit Hollywood movie Pride starring Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac. (en)
- Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth around 1875 . For college Dudley attended Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Throughout his education he focused on learning to become an educator. In 1880, at age 21, Dudley passed the North Carolina state exam required to obtain a teacher's certificate. Later he attended Harvard summer school and gained an M.A. from Livingstone College and an LL.D. from Wilberforce University. Dudley became President of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1896 and held that position until his death in 1925. (en)
- First African-American to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly since Reconstruction. (en)
- Former Chicago Bears player 1991-2002. He was an offensive right tackle eleven of his twelve years with the Bears, and played in the Pro Bowl. (en)
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