African Methodist Episcopal Church - Notable Members

Notable Members

  • George Washington Buckner, U.S. minister to Liberia, 1913-1915.
  • Byron Cage
  • James E. Clyburn US Representative (D-SC)
  • LL Cool J
  • Ernest Green - member of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Alcee Hastings, US House of Representatives (D-FL)
  • Arsenio Hall
  • Gwen Ifill
  • Vernon Jordan, noted civil rights leader and author
  • Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick US Representative (D-MI)
  • John Legend
  • Ray Lewis
  • Delroy Lindo
  • Dr. Susan McKinney Stewart
  • Gregory Meeks, US Representative (D-NY)
  • Rosa Parks
  • P. B. S. Pinchback, first African-American Governor (R-LA)
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African-American Senator (R-MS)
  • Rodney Slater - Secretary of Transportation in Clinton Administration
  • Cicely Tyson
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Stephanie Diana Wilson
  • Dave Winfield
  • Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader & Executive Director of the NAACP
  • Charlotte Maxeke

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