of 60 CIAA championships between men's and women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, football and volleyball.
== Alumni ==
Notable alumni include
Ella Baker (1927), cofounder and leader of SNCC and civil rights activist
Angie Brooks (B.S. 1949), first African female President of the United Nations General Assembly
Shirley Caesar (B.S. 1984), pastor and gospel music artist
John O. Crosby (1914), founder and first president of North Carolina A&T State University
Marguerite Frierson (1928), educator
Willie E. Gary (B.A. 1971), attorney
Gladys Knight (B.A. 1966), lead singer of Gladys Knight & the Pips
Peter Weddick Moore (A.B. 1887), founder and first president of Elizabeth City Normal College (now Elizabeth City State University)
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D.D. 1934), Congressman from New York, 1945–71
== See also ==
List of Shaw University people
List of historically black colleges and universities
== References ==
== Additional references ==
Carter, Wilmoth A. Shaw's …
