Here are other famous African Americans, suggested by readers:
• Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Howard University in 1908. She was a teacher in Oklahoma, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
• Kenneth Brown Billups Sr., choir director for the Legend Singers, St. Louis public schools' supervisor of music, president of the National Association of Negro Musicians in 1959.
• Ivory Perry, a civil rights activist who rose to lead activism during the Jefferson Bank protest in 1963. He led the effort to educate people about lead paint and the impacts of lead on children's health.
• Archer Alexander, an escaped enslaved man who became the inspiration for the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• David E. Hines, a jazz trumpeter who performed with James Brown, Ray Charles, Pattie LaBelle and many others, and his own David Hines Ensemble.
• Phil Perry, an R&B musician
• David Peaston, an R&B and gospel singer whose performance on "Showtime at the Apollo" led to fame.
• Football player Ezekiel Elliott, a graduate of John Burroughs School.
• Harry Edwards, a sports sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a consultant to several major league baseball teams, as well as the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors.
• Ivory Crocket, a Webster High School graduate who set the world record for fastest manually timed 100-yard dash in 1974, and still holds that record to this day.
• Actress Jennifer Lewis, who has appeared in "Black-ish," and the movies "Beaches" and "Sister Act."
The St. Louis Walk of Fame honors those who were born, lived or had their success in the area. Here are the people whose names are on the star…
