and operated radio station.
== Notable alumni ==
E. Lilyan Spencer (1906–1957), tennis player, basketball coach and principal. Winner of the 1937 women's doubles national ATA tennis championship.
Sylvia Lyons Render (1913–1986), English professor and manuscript curator at the Library of Congress; first African American to receive a doctoral degree from the Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development
Cannonball Adderley (born 1928) music educator and one of the most pre-eminent prestigious jazz saxophonists in jazz history, performed on the pivotal album Kind of Blue with Miles Davis
Frederick S. Humphries (born 1935), eighth president of Florida A&M University from June 1, 1985 to December 31, 2001. Under the Humphries administration, FAMU was selected as "College of the Year" by the TIME/Princeton Review in 1997 and recognized in the State University System as a Comprehensive/Doctoral University in 1999.
Sybil C. Mobley (born 1925), founding dean of Florida A&M University'sSchool of Business …
