Activists

 

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Activist

• Julius L. Chambers: NAACP Legal Defense Fund

• Lester Granger: National Urban League

• Frederick Douglass: Anti-Slavery Activist

• W.E.B. Dubois: Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist

• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: Civil Rights Activist

• Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice

• Paul Robeson: Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player

• Dick Gregory: Activist

• William Gray: United Negro College Fund, Businessman

• Franklin Williams: Phelps-Stokes Fund

Education/Scholarship

 

• James Check: Howard University

• Thomas W. Cole, Jr.: President, Clark-Atlanta University

• William B. DeLauder: President, Delaware St. University

• John Hope Franklin: Historian

• E. Franklin Frazier: Sociologist

• Dennis Kimbro: Author

• Frederick Patterson: Founder, UNCF

• Dr. Ronald J. Temple: Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago

• Cornell West: Author

• Andrew Zawacki: Rhodes Scholar, Author

• Dr. Raymond W. Cannon: 1st Edition, Sphinx Magazine

• Norm Francis: President, Xavier University

 

Military

 

• Roscoe Cartwright: General, AUS

• Samuel Gravel: Admiral, USN

• Edward Honor: Major General, AUS

• Fred A. Gorden: Brigadere General

• Samuel Gravely: Admiral

• Benjamin Hacker: Rear Admiral

• Edward Honor: Major General

• James McCall: Major General

• Charles E. McGee: Tuskegee Airman, Tau Bro

Science/Medicine

• Dr. Lessall D. Leffall: President, American College of Surgeons

• James Comer: Psychologist

• Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Traffic Signal

• Louis Sullivan: Secretary of Health and Education

• Winston Scott: Commander NASA

 

Government/Politics

 

• Kwame Kilpatrick: Mayor of Detroit

• Dennis Archer: former, Mayor of Detroit

• Richard Arrington: Mayor of Birmingham

• Willie Brown: Mayor of San Francisco

• David Dinkins: Former Mayor of New York

• Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver: Mayor of Kansas City

• Chaka Fattah: Congressman, Pennsylvania

• Ernest Finney: South Carolina Supreme Court Justice

• Earl Hilliard: Congressman, Alabama (7th District)

• Maynard Jackson: Former Mayor of Atlanta

• Thurgood Marshall: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

• Earnest "Dutch" Morial: 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans

• Marc Morial: Mayor of New Orleans

• Charles Rangel: Congressman, New York (15th District)

• Robert C. Scott: Congressman, Virginia (3rd District)

• Andrew Young: Former Mayor of Atlanta

 

Business

 

• Thomas J. Burrell: CEO, Burrell Advertising

• W. Melvin Brown: CEO, American Development Corp.

• John H. Johnson: Entrepreneur

• Delano Lewis: President, National Public Radio

• Henry Parks: Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.

• Joshua Smith: CEO, Maxima Corporation

 

Entertainment

 

• Daryl Bell: Actor

• Tony Brown: Journalist/Producer

• Countee Cullen: Poet

• Duke Ellington: Jazz Musician

• Donny Hathaway: Musician

• Eugene Jackson: National Black Network

• Stuart Scott: ESPN Anchorman

• Chuck Stone: Philadelphia Daily News

• Keenan Ivory Wayans: Comedian, Producer

 

Sports

 

• Quinn Buckner: Former NBA Player and Coach

• Wes Chandler: Former NFL Player

• Todd Day: NBA Player

• Rosie Greer: Former NFL Player

• Charles Haley: NFL Player

• Michael Jackson: NFL Player

• Carnell Lake: NFL Player

• Jesse Owens: Olympic Gold Medalist, Track & Field

• Fritz Pollard: 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL

• Mike Powell: Olympic Gold Medalist, Track & Field

• Eddie Robinson: Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History

• Art Shell: Former NFL Player and Coach

• Wes Unseld: Former NBA Player and Coach

• Gene Upshaw: President of the NFL Players Association

• Lenny Wilkens: Winningest Coach in NBA History

• John "Hot Rod" Williams: Former NBA Player

• Reggie Williams: Cincinnati Bengals