Being a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, she continues to travel the world making appearances on college campuses, spreading her legendary wisdom. (Read More About Maya Angelou )

Businesswoman, philanthropist, wife, mother author and Christian. No reference to Eliza A. Miller?s remarkable life would be adequate without multiple descriptors. (Read More About Eliza A. Miller )

As president of the state NAACP, Daisy Bates took it upon herself to help coordinate the integration of Central High. She and her husband L.C. used their home as a meeting place for the Little Rock Nine -- and often times, they paid the price (Read More About Daisy Bates )

Lawrence Hamilton, the son of the late Dr. Oscar and Mrs. Mae Dell Hamilton, was born in the small southwest Arkansas town of Foreman. (Read More About Lawrence Hamilton )

Ernest G. Green is currently the Managing Director of Public Finance for Lehman Brothers' Washington, D.C. office. (Read More About Ernest Green )

She has had a lifetime commitment to peacemaking; environmental issues; developing youth leadership; diversity education and training; cross-cultural communication; gender and social justice advocacy. (Read More About Minnijean Brown Trickey )

Beals worked as a reporter for NBC, and is currently a communications consultant. She is the author of books on public relations and marketing. (Read More About Melba Patillo Beals )

It seems that Sidney Moncrief has always been around. Whether as a high school athlete, a professional athlete or as the owner of a car dealership. (Read More About Sidney Moncrief )

Internationally Renowned Jazz Musician One of the greatest jazz impresarios of our time, Pharaoh Sanders, was born Ferrell Sanders on October 13, 1940 in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Read More About Pharaoh Sanders )

Among nearly 20,000 players to play Major League Baseball, Brock is the 22nd all-time hits leader with 3,023 lifetime hits and he is the 2nd all-time stolen base leader with 938 lifetime stolen bases. (Read More About Lou Brock )

Lencola Sullivan made history by breaking through the color barrier within the Miss American Pageant. Sullivan became the first African-American to win every competition she ever entered. (Read More About Lencola Sullivan )

Dr. G.W. Stanley Ish, Sr., born on October 28, 1883, was a renowned physician, humanitarian and family man. (Read More About Dr. G.W. Stanley Ish )

Dr. Roberts is currently chair of the master's in psychology program at Antioch University in Los Angeles and has his private psychology practice in Pasadena, CA. In addition, he is CEO of the management-consulting firm, Terrence J Roberts & Associates. (Read More About Terrence Roberts, Ph.D. )

At the age 14, she was the youngest of nine courageous Black students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. (Read More About Carlotta Walls LaNier )

When her mother refused to force Gloria to withdraw from Little Rock?s Central High School in 1957, she and her mother moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from Central High School there. (Read More About Gloria Ray Karlmark )

Jefferson was a sophomore when he bravely entered Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957. (Read More About Jefferson Thomas )

Because of the harsh abuse inflicted upon her at Central, Mothershed did not return for her senior year (Read More About Thelma Mothershed Wair )

Elizabeth Eckford and one of her former adversaries received a humanitarian award from the National Conference for Community and Justice. (Read More About Elizabeth Eckford )