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UC's African American Living Legends

  • Ida Rhodes, Ed '19, retired teacher
  • Georgia Beasley, Ed '25, retired teacher
  • Theodore Berry, A&S '28, Law '31, Cincinnati's first black mayor and retired lawyer
  • Donald Spencer, A&S '36, Ed '37, MEd '40, educator and real estate businessman
  • Marian Alexander Spencer, A&S '42, first black woman on Cincinnati City Council and the UC Board of Trustees
  • Arthur Hull, BusAd '49, MA (A&S) '73, past president and current member, Cincinnati Board of Education
  • Moss White, Ed '59, MEd '63, substitute teacher, former principal, retired director, Cincinnati Public Schools
  • Cheryl Grant, A&S '66, JD '73, Hamilton County Municipal court judge and former police officer
  • Yvonne Edmunds West, '69, co-owner, Roland West & Associates, a management consulting company
  • Dwight Tillery, A&S '70, Cincinnati's first elected black mayor, attorney, lobbyist, leadership consultant
  • Charles Winburn, Univ '72, CCS '73, MEd '75, Cincinnati councilman
  • Roland West, Ed '73, co-owner, Roland West & Associates
  • Tyrone Yates, A&S '78, Cincinnati councilman
  • Alan Costner, BusAd '82, assistant vice president, Fifth Third Bank
  • Harlan Jackson, BusAd '89, manager, sales, Procter & Gamble
  • Cecily Goode, BusAd '93, financial aid adviser, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
  • Stacy Downing, A&S '96, program coordinator, African American Cultural and Research Center
  • Kmt Alkebulan, A&S '96, ED '97, MEd '98, doctoral student, University of Maryland