Jesse L. Bates: Sterling High School Teacher of Science
and Mathematics
Masselena Vivian Lawrence Bowen: Teacher in Greenville
County Schools for 50 years; 40 of these years at Allen City School, teaching
seventh grade
Hattie Logan Duckett: founder of Phillis Wheatley Center;
elementary school named in her honor (Hattie Duckett Elementary School, now Fine
Arts Center)
Mary Moone Calhoun: Union Elementary School Teacher
Cora Kilgore Chapman: First African American Registered
Nurse; first African American superintendent of Greenville Hospital
J. Pickens Pick Chappell: Trustee of Sterling High School,
Trustee of Workingman’s Savings & Loan (African American Bank)
Emma Clark: owner and manager of Broadway Beauty Shop, the
oldest and one of the First African American beauty parlors in the Greenville
Elias B. Holloway: appointed principal of then Union
School (West End School); and First African American mail carrier; Writer for
Greenville News
Florence L. Lykes: Sterling High School Teacher of Social
Studies
Anna M. Richardson: Sterling High School Teacher of
English, affectionately known as Ma Richardson
Lila Lomax Sewell: First African American school
supervisor; Piano teacher
William R. Sewell: First African American licensed
building contractor – constructed Sterling High and SC Franks Funeral Home
(former location on Anderson Road)
Dr. Oswald M. Thompson: one of Greenville’s first African
American Dentists, who received his Dental Surgery Degree in 1905
Harriet Elizabeth Williams: graduate of Sterling High
School; first African American female in Greenville County female to receive a
Master’s Degree (Atlanta University) in Pure mathematics
Hattie E. Williams: one of the first Trustees of Allen
Temple AME Church
Lida Logan Williams: One of Greenville’s first African
American Registered Nurses.