Performers in the 1995 Camille Armstrong Memorial Scholarship Step Show. Credit: UAB Archives.See some of the best National Pan-Hellenic Council step teams from the Southeast perform at one of the largest step shows in Alabama on Saturday, Feb. 22.
The 30th annual Camille Armstrong Memorial Scholarship Step Show, presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Black Student Awareness Committee, assembles the best talent in the Southeast and draws hundreds of audience members supporting the teams as they vie for cash prizes.
The show will be held in the BJCC Concert Hall. Tickets for the general public are $25; $20 for all fraternity or sorority members. Tickets are available online or at the BJCC Concert Hall Box Office. All proceeds will fund the Camille Armstrong Memorial Scholarship. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the show at 7 p.m.
The Camille Armstrong Memorial Scholarship Step Show was established to honor the dreams and aspirations of the late Camille Yvette Armstrong. All proceeds fund the scholarship founded in her honor as well as the Step Show for the upcoming year, in order to continue to bring awareness to and promotion of the scholarship.
Armstrong was a UAB student majoring in political science with plans of graduation in 1986. Months before receiving her degree, she died in a motor vehicle accident. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., served as a UAB ambassador and was best described as “a hardworking, dedicated student.” To preserve the memory of her service and love for UAB, a scholarship was established in her honor and, since 1992, has been presented each year in her name to deserving African American undergraduate students with career aspirations in law.
The 2020 Camille Armstrong Memorial Scholarship recipients are Biankka Chukwuma, a criminal justice major from Hoover, $1,000; Charelle Lett, an African American studies major with a minor in legal affairs, from Mobile, $3,000; and Xavier Turner, a criminal justice and political sciences major from York, Alabama, $5,000.