Beverly Buchanan
Beverly Buchanan found her calling as an artist after pursuing a career in health education and realizing that she wanted to express the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood.
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Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of the nine founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the oldest Greek-letter organization established in America by Black college women.
Shay Youngblood
Shay Youngblood was a distinguished Georgia writer who followed Black roots and routes. Her novels, short stories, and plays explore themes of family and community, as well as topics such as history, ancestry, and sexual identity.
Babbie Mason
Babbie Mason is an African American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and author. Her song “All Rise” was one of the most-recorded contemporary Christian songs of the 1990s.
Selena Sloan Butler
Selena Sloan Butler organized the first National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers (NCCPT) and cofounded the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, which is now a part of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
Leah Ward Sears
Leah Ward Sears served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2005 until 2009.
Francine Reed
Francine Reed, Atlanta’s “queen of the blues,” was born in Illinois in 1947. In the 1990s she relocated to Georgia and soon became one of Atlanta’s most beloved performers.
Reed’s career was cemented on the foundation of a musically rich family. Her father was a gospel singer and her sister Margo Reed became a noted jazz singer. As the youngest of six siblings, Reed began performing
Precious Bryant
A charismatic country blues singer and fingerstyle guitarist of the Piedmont tradition, Precious Bryant stands out among Georgia’s great blueswomen.
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is a fiction writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist who has lived in Atlanta since 1969. In her writing, Cleage draws on her experiences as an activist for AIDS and women’s rights, and she cites the rhythms of Black life as her muse.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.