former honorary national bell ringers

Dr. Ala Stanford, Black Doctors Consortium
Hon. Patrick Toomey and Hon. Robert Casey, U.S. Senators, PA
Crystal Grice - Eldest Niece of C. DeLores Tucker
Ernest Evans - “Chubby Checker” 1960’s Music Legend
George Monyemangene - Consul General, Embassy of South Africa, U.S.
Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput - Archbishop of Philadelphia
Ilyasah Shabazz Malaak Shabazz - Daughters of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz
Michael Rashid - President & CEO, AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies
Hon. Russyl Ali - Asst. Secretary for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Education
James Bain - Exonerated after 35 years of Wrongful Incarceration
Hon. Lynn Toler - Judge, Syndicated Fox Television Show “Divorce Court”
Xernona Clayton - President & Founder Trumpet Awards Foundation
Hon. Edward G Rendell - Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Cicely Tyson - Renowned Actress
Ossie Davis - Former Renowned Actor
Hon. Carol Moseley Braun - Former U.S. Ambassador, Former U.S. Senator, Illinois
Hon. Martin Luther King, III - President, Southern Christian Leadership
Hon. Walter Fauntroy - Former U.S. Congressman, Pres. Nat’l Black Leadership Roundtable
Tipper Gore - Advocate for Families, Women and Children, Wife of Former Vice President Al Gore
Hon. Bruce Babbitt - Former U.S. Secretary of Interior
Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. - Former Supreme Court Judge Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Hon. Colin L. Powell Former Secretary of State
Hon. Al Gore - Former Vice President, U.S.A.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders - Former U.S. Surgeon General
Myrlie Evers-Williams - Civil Rights Activist and Widow of slain Civil Rights Leader, Medgar Evers
Dr. Dorothy I. Height - President,National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. - Former U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Rev. Joseph Lowery - Former President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hon. James Farmer - Former President, Congress of Racial Equality
Rev. Benjamin A. Hooks - Former Executive Director of the NAACP
Rosa Parks - Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Hon. Samuel Pierce - Former U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development

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Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence

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former honorary national bell ringers

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Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence

Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence

former honorary national bell ringers

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