Activists
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights Activist
Frederick Douglass – Anti-Slavery Activist
Thurgood Marshall – Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
William Gray – United Negro College Fund, Businessman
Julius L. Chambers – NAACP Legal Defense fund
W.E.B. Dubois – Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist
Paul Robeson – Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player
Franklin Williams – Phelps-Stokes Fund
Lester Granger – National Urban League
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – Civil Rights Activist
Dick Gregory – Activist
Theodore M. Berry – Civil Rights Activist, First Black Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Education/Scholarship
James Check – Howard University
John Hope Franklin – Historian
Frederick Patterson – Found, UNCF
Andrew Zawacki – Rhodes Scholar, Author
Thomas W. Cole, Jr. – President, Clark-Atlanta University
E. Franklin Frazier – Sociologist
Dr. Ronald J. Temple – Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
William B. DeLauder – President, Delaware St. University
Dennis Kimbro – Author
Dr. Cornel West – Author
Norm Francis – President, Xavier University
Military
Roscoe Cartwright – General, AUS
Fred A. Gorden – Brigadier General
Edward Honor – Lieutenant General, Army, Retired
Samual Gravely – Admiral, USN
Benjamin Hacker – Rear Admiral
James McCall – Major General
Science/Medicine
Dr. Lessall D. Leffall – President, American College of Surgeons
Louis Sullivan – Secretary of Health and Education
James Comer – Psychologist
Winston Scott – Navy Commander, Astronaut NASA
Garrett Morgan – Inventor, Traffic Signal
Government/Politics
Edward William Brooke – U.S. Senator
Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver – Former Mayor, Kansas City
Dennis Archer – Former Mayor Detroit
Willie Brown – Former Mayor of San Francisco
David Dinkins – Former Mayor of New York
Earl Hilliard – Former Congressman, Alabama (7th District)
Charles Rangel – Congressman, New York (15th District)
Richard Arrington – Former Mayor of Birmingham
Roland W. Burris – U.S. Senator
Chaka Fattah – Congressman, Pennsylvania
Maynard Jackson – Former Mayor of Atlanta
Earnest “Dutch” Morial – 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans
Robert C. Scott – Congressman, Virgina (3rd District)
Edward William Brooke – U.S. Senator
Ernest Finney – South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
Kwame Kilpatrick – Former Mayor of Detroit
Marc Morial – Former Mayor of New Orleans
Andrew Young – Former Mayor of Atlanta
Business
Thomas J. Burrell – CEO, Burrell Advertising
Delano Lewis – President, National Public Radio
W. Melvin Brown – CEO, American Development Corp
Henry Parks – Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
Jonh H. Johnson – Entrepreneur
Joshua Smith – CEO, Maxima Corporation
Entertainment
Daryl Bell – Actor
Duke Ellington – Jazz Musician
Stuart Scott – ESPN Anchorman
Tony Brown – Journalist/Producer
Donny Hathaway – Musician
Chuck Stone – Philadelphia Daily News
Countee Cullen – Poet
Eugene Jackson – National Black Network
Keenan Ivory Wayans – Comedian, Producer
Omari Hardwick- Actor
Sports
Quinn Buckner – Former NBA Player and Coach
Rosie Greer – Former NFL Player
Carnell Lake – NFL Player
Mike Powell – Track Star
Donald Driver – NFL Player
Wes Unseld – Former NBA Player and Coach
John “Hot Rod” Williams – Former NBA Player
Wes Chandler – Former NFL Player
Charles Haley – NFL Player
Jesse Owens – Olympic Gold Medalist
Eddie Robinson – Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History
Gene Upshaw – President of the NFL Players Association
Reggie Williams – Cincinnati Bengals
Todd Day – NBA Player
Michael Jackson – NFL Player
Fritz Pollard – 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL
Art Shell – NFL Head Coach and Former NFL Player
