Jeri Gray
Principal McGee was played by Eve Arden. Ms. Arden played a teacher in the 1950s TV show: Our Miss Brooks. She was promoted from teacher to principal in Grease.
In the 1994 Law and Order season 1, episode 5 called 'White Rabbit', the medical examiner is Dr. Florence Sanders played by Alison Martin. Ms. Martin also played a character named Miss Dawkins in the 1996 season 7, episode 2 called 'I.D.'.
Montel Williams
The first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk television show was Ms. Alice Travis (For You Black Women 1977). Then on the same series Ms. Nell Bassett hosted in1979.Then Ms. Freda Payne, from 1980 to 1984, hosted the series when the series changed its name to Today's Black Women.Oprah went on the air with her show in 1985.
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