Dunham (1904–1985), educator, civil and women's right activist, historian
Ruby Elzy (1908–1943), operatic soprano
Amos T. Hall (1896–1971), lawyer, judge, and civil rights leader
Perry Wilbon Howard (1877–1961), attorney, assistant U.S. attorney general, Mississippi Republican chairman
Leslie B. McLemore (born 1940), civil rights activist, political scientist, interim mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Godwin Maduka MD and founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Center
Helen Caldwell Day Riley (1926-?), book author and hospitality house founder in the Catholic Worker tradition
Alexander Preston Shaw (1879–1966), Methodist bishop
Anita Ward (born 1957), disco singer
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), newspaper editor, activist, cofounder of the NAACP
Willie Mitchell (1928–2010), record executive, musician, producer
Susie Revels Cayton (1870–1943), activist, journalist, editor, writer
== See also ==
WURC Rust College's public radio station
== References ==
== Further reading ==
Robinson, Marco Tyrone, "'By Their …
