This is a list of people associated with Shaw University, a historically black private college in Raleigh, North Carolina. It includes alumni, faculty, and presidents.
Notable alumni
Academics
- James E. Cheek (B.A. 1955), president of Shaw University, president emeritus of Howard University, 1983 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- John O. Crosby (1914), founder and first president of North Carolina A&T State University
- James B. Dudley (A.B. 1881), professor and president of North Carolina A&T State University (1896âÂÂ1925)
- Edward Hart Lipscombe (A.B. 1879, A.M. 1882), educator, minister, principal of the Western Union Institute
- Peter Weddick Moore (A.B. 1887), founder and first president of Elizabeth City Normal College (now Elizabeth City State University)
- William L. Pollard (B.A. 1967), president of the Medgar Evers College (2009âÂÂ2013)
- Charles L. Purce (A.B.), president of Selma University and Simmons College of Kentucky
- Benjamin Arthur Quarles (B.A. 1931), historian, administrator, scholar, educator, and writer
- James E. Shepard (A.B. 1894), founder and first president of North Carolina Central University
- Ezekiel Ezra Smith (A.B. 1878), president of Fayetteville State University and U.S. ambassador to Liberia (1888âÂÂ1890)
Arts and entertainment
Business
Civil rights
Government
- Angie Brooks (B.S. 1949), first African female president of the United Nations General Assembly and associate justice to the National Supreme Court of Liberia
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (A.B. 1882), Republican member of the United States House of Representatives 1889âÂÂ1893
- Thomas O. Fuller, state senator of the North Carolina Senate in 1898
- George H. Jackson, Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives 1892âÂÂ1893
- Edward A. Johnson (B.L. 1891), first African-American member of the New York state legislature when he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1917
- Luther Jordan (B.A. 1997), member of the North Carolina Senate 1993âÂÂ2002
- Vernon Malone (1953), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 14th Senate district, including constituents in Wake County
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D.D. 1934), congressman from New York, 1945âÂÂ71
- Rita Walters (1952), member of Board of Library Commissioners for the Los Angeles Public Library
- Charles D. Walton (B.A. 1971), first African-American member of the Rhode Island Senate
- James H. Young, prominent North Carolina politician and first African American to hold the rank of colonel in the United States of the volunteer regiment during the SpanishâÂÂAmerican War
Law
Journalism
Religion
Science and medicine
- Clinton Caldwell Boone, physician, dentist, and minister
- John Eagles, pharmacy owner in Raleigh, North Carolina; son of John S. W. Eagles, sergeant in USCT, public official, and state legislator in North Carolina
- Louise Celia Fleming (1885), black medical missionary (1862âÂÂ1899)
- John Walcott Kay (1912), prominent physician in Wilmington, co-founder of Community Hospital
- Aaron McDuffie Moore (1888), doctor and medical director
- Manassa Thomas Pope (1885), prominent physician in Raleigh; ran for mayor in 1919
- Lawson A. Scruggs (1887), physician and civil rights activist
- John P. Turner (1906), surgeon, hospital administrator, and educator
Sports
Notable faculty
- Helen Asemota, Nigeria-born biochemist and agricultural biotechnologist; professor 2005âÂÂ2012
- Gaston Alonzo Edwards (1875âÂÂ1943), African American architect, and educator; founded the building department
Presidents of Shaw University
References