18 Notable alumni of
Talladega College
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Talladega College is 2731st in the world, 936th in North America, and 885th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Talladega 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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Deion Sanders
- Enrolled in Talladega College
- Studied in 2020
- Occupations
- musicianAmerican football coachbaseball playerAmerican football playerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr., commonly known as Deion Sanders, is an American football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder. Nicknamed "Prime Time" and "Coach Prime", he played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and Baltimore Ravens. Sanders was also a baseball outfielder for nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and San Francisco Giants. He won two Super Bowl titles and made one World Series appearance in 1992, making him the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.
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Nikema Williams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nikema Natassha Williams is an American politician serving as the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district. The district includes almost three-quarters of Atlanta. She was a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district from 2017 to 2021, and served as Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia from 2019 to 2025. Williams served as one of 16 electors for Georgia in the Electoral College following the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Brenda Snipes
- Occupations
- teacherofficial
- Biography
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Brenda Calhoun Snipes was an American public official who was the Supervisor of Elections for Broward County, Florida. She was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush in 2003. Snipes was registered as a Democrat.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Occupations
- writerpoetnovelistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is an American poet and novelist, and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She has published five collections of poetry and a novel. Her 2020 collection The Age of Phillis reexamines the life of American poet Phillis Wheatley, based on years of archival research; it was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, and won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry. Her debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, was published by HarperCollins in 2021.
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Nikky Finney
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Nikky Finney is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature. An alumna of Talladega College, and author of four books of poetry and a short-story cycle, Finney is an advocate for social justice and cultural preservation. Her honors include the 2011 National Book Award for her collection Head Off & Split. Finney is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
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William R. Harvey
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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William Robert Harvey is an American educator, academic administrator, and businessman who served as president of Hampton University from 1978 to 2022. He is the longest serving president in the school's history. Harvey became the first African-American owner in the soft drink bottling industry when he and his wife, Norma Baker Harvey, purchased a Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company franchise together in 1986.
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Arthur Shores
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Davis Shores was an American civil rights attorney who was considered Alabama's "drum major for justice". Admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1937, Shores played a leading role in the fight for civil rights for African-Americans in Alabama and was the first African American to sit on the Birmingham City Council.
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William Conan Davis
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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William Conan Davis was a professor emeritus and was chair of natural sciences at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas. The William C. Davis Science Building is named in his honor.
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Maxie Clarence Maultsby, Jr
- Enrolled in Talladega College
- In 1953 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- psychiatrist
- Biography
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Maxie Clarence Maultsby Jr. was an American psychiatrist, author of several books on emotional and behavioral self-management, Elected Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists. He is the founder of the method of psychotherapy called Rational Behavior Therapy, the emotional self-help technique called Rational Self-Counseling, and the New Self-Help Alcoholic Relapse Prevention Treatment Method. He was an Emeritus Professor at the College of Medicine at Howard University in Washington D.C.
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Karla F.C. Holloway
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Karla Francesca Holloway is an American academic. She is James B. Duke Professor of English & Professor of Law at Duke University, and holds appointments in the Duke University School of Law as well as the university's Department of English, Department of African & African American Studies, and Program in Women's Studies. Holloway is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective
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Henry Sanders
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henry "Hank" Sanders is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Alabama Senate from 1983 to 2018. He is married to Faya Ora Rose Touré.
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Margaret Bush Wilson
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Margaret Bush Wilson was an American lawyer and activist. Wilson broke many barriers as an African-American woman throughout her professional career.
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Jeral Davis
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jeral Davis is an American former professional basketball player. He played overseas for the majority of his professional career, most notably in Mexico, Japan, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. Previously he attended Talladega College.
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Carol Brice
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Carol Brice was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1939. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1939 to 1943. She attracted considerable attention for her role in a 1939 production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair, where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice. In 1945 she taught briefly at Black Mountain College.
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Nathan B. Young
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Nathan Benjamin Young was an American educator who helped advance black education in the early 20th century. Born a slave in Alabama, Young later became an educator after Booker T. Washington, who witnessed Young’s skills in debating, invited him to teach at the Tuskegee Institute. Following his career as a teacher, Young later became a president of two major universities, Florida A&M University and Lincoln University. He and Henry Lee De Forest, the president of Talladega College, started a campaign to help improve education for the African American community.
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Alma Smith Jacobs
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Alma Smith Jacobs was the first African American to serve as Montana State Librarian. She served as Head Librarian at the Great Falls Public Library from 1954 to 1973, and in 1973 was named Montana State Librarian, serving until 1981.
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George Williamson Crawford
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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George Williamson Crawford was a lawyer, public servant, and an activist for African-American civil rights in New Haven, Connecticut.
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James A. Merriman
- Occupations
- newspaper proprietorphysician
- Biography
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James Anthony Merriman was an American physician and newspaper publisher. Merriman was the first African American physician to practice medicine in Portland, and perhaps the first in the state of Oregon; he was recruited to care for Black workers of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1903. He was a cofounder of Portland's second Black newspaper, The Advocate, and edited The Portland Times from 1913 until 1926. Merriman was also active in civil rights and community leadership, serving as the first president of the Portland chapter of the NAACP.
