11 Notable alumni of
Rust College
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Rust College is 3281st in the world, 1133rd in North America, and 1077th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Rust College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ida B. Wells
- Occupations
- writersuffragistsociologisthuman rights activistjournalist
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women.
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Anita Ward
- Occupations
- musiciansinger
- Biography
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Anita Ward is an American singer and musician from Memphis, Tennessee. Beginning her professional music career in the late 1970s, Ward is best known for her 1979 million-selling chart-topper R&B/Disco hit "Ring My Bell" which was #1 on the United States Hot 100, R&B, Dance and United Kingdom charts.
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Alvin Childress
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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Alvin Childress was an American actor, who is best known for playing the cabdriver Amos Jones in the 1950s television comedy series Amos 'n' Andy.
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Willie Mitchell
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- conductorrecord producerbandleadermusiciantrumpeter
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William Lawrence Mitchell was an American trumpeter, bandleader, soul, R&B, rock and roll, pop and funk record producer and arranger who ran Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He was best known for his Hi Records label of the 1970s, which released albums by a large stable of popular Memphis soul artists, including Mitchell himself, Al Green, O. V. Wright, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles and Quiet Elegance.
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Godwin Maduka
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Godwin Maduka //, is a Nigerian-American doctor, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Center. In 2008, he played a major role in the renaming of his hometown, from Nkerehi to Umuchukwu.
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Leslie B. McLemore
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- politician
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Leslie-Burl McLemore is an American civil rights activist and political leader from Jackson, Mississippi. He served as interim mayor of Jackson following the death of Frank Melton on May 7, 2009 until the inauguration of re-elected mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. on July 3, 2009.
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Ruby Elzy
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- actoropera singer
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Ruby Pearl Elzy was an American operatic soprano. She appeared on stage and in films. She recorded on albums before her death in her 30s from surgery to remove a benign tumor.
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Susie Revels Cayton
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- writer
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Susie Revels Cayton was a writer, editor, activist, and leader in the African-American community in Seattle at the start of the 20th century.
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Irvine Garland Penn
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- writerjournalist
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Irvine Garland Penn was an American educator, journalist, and lay leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the author of The Afro-American Press and Its Editors, published in 1891, and a coauthor with Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and Ferdinand Lee Barnett of The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbia Exposition in 1893. In the late 1890s, he became an officer in the Methodist Episcopal Church and played an important role advocating for the interests of African Americans in the church until his death.
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Dembo M. Badjie
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- politiciandiplomat
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Dembo M. Badjie is a retired Gambian civil servant and diplomat. He entered the Gambian Government in 1970, taking a break to study Political Science and Economics at Rust College, followed by postgraduate studies at Glasgow Caledonian University. He reentered the civil service in 1978, serving in several ministries, including local government and education. In 1983, he had a daughter, Fatim Badjie, who is also a Gambian politician.
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F.C. Richardson
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- 1937-.. (age 87)
- Biography
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F.C. Richardson served as a president of Buffalo State College, a higher education institution that is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, from July 1, 1989, to January 1, 1996; and, following that, as chancellor of Indiana University Southeast from 1996 to 2002. Richardson was the first college president of African American heritage at Buffalo State.
