![Isaac White, Sr.]()
by Pat | Aug 2, 2017 | honoree
Humble barber teaches valuable skills, shares love and friendship ISAAC WHITE,SR. WAS BORN TO SHARECROPPERS in Wilkerson County, Mississippi, in 1919. When he arrived in Mobile, Alabama in 1942, he didn’t realize he would become a pillar in the community, but that is...
![Nell Carter]()
by Pat | Aug 1, 2017 | honoree
Her love of music carried her to stardom on stage and screen NELL CARTER WAS BORN NELLIE RUTH HARDY in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 13, 1948, to Edna Mae and Horace Lee Hardy. Carter, the fifth of nine children, loved music and sang in church groups around...
![Dr. Shelia Nash-Stevenson]()
by Pat | Jul 30, 2017 | honoree
NASA engineer is one of a select group of African American female physicists DR. SHELIA NASH-STEVENSON MADE HISTORY IN 1994 when she became the first African American female from Alabama to earn a Ph.D. degree in physics. She was among the first African Americans to...
