W.E.B. DuBois 
Social Activist Leader--First Black Harvard Graduate 

Lester Granger 
Executive Director of the National Urban League 

Dick Gregory 
Civil Rights Activist

Charles Hamilton Houston 
NAACP Legal Counsel

Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Civil Rights Leader

Hugh B. Price 
Executive Director of the National Urban League

Paul Robeson 
Activist

Whitney M. Young Jr. 
Former President of the National Urban League

Federal Government

O. Rudolph Aggrey 
U.S. Ambassador to Romania

Daniel T. Blue, Jr. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives of North Carolina

Edward W. Brooke 
First Black U.S. Senator Massachusetts

Lee P. Brown 
Director of Office of National Drug Control Policy

U.W. Clemon 
Federal Judges, U.S. District Court

William Coleman 
U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Christopher Darden
  Attoney

Ronald Dellums 
Congressman, California 9th District

Julian Dixon 
Congressman, California 32nd District

Harry Edwards 
U.S. Court of Appeals

Harold Ford 
U.S. House of Representatives

William H. Gray, III 
President & CEO of United Negro College Fund, US House of Representatives

Earl Hilliard 
Congressman Alabama 7th District

Hubert Humpries 
Honorary Member, 38th U.S. President

James A. Joseph 
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of S. Africa

Damon Keith 
U.S. District Judge-Eastern District of Michigan

Thurgood Marshall 
First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Donald McHenry 
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

Ralph Metcalfe 
Congressman Illinois

Samuel Pierce 
U.S. Secretary of HUD

Adam Clay Powell, Jr. 
New York U.S. Representative

Charles Rangle 
Congressman New York 15th District

Aubrey Robinson 
U.S. District Court

Bennett Stewart 
U.S. House of Representatives Illinois

Gerald Thomas 
Ambassador to Kenya

Andrew Young 
Mayor of Atlanta, First Black U.N. Ambassador 
Local/State Government

Dennis Archer 
Mayor of Detroit, Michigan

Richard Arrington 
Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Thomas V. Barnes 
Mayor of Gary, Indiana

Marion Barry 
Mayor of Washington, DC

Theodore Berry 
Mayor of Cincinnati, OH

Willie Brown 
Speaker-California State Assembly of Representatives

David Dinkins 
Mayor of New York, New York

Julian Dixon 
Appt'd Chairman (President's Race Advisory Board), FBK, Noted Historian

Ernest Finney 
Assoc. Justice, S. Carolina Supreme Court

Maynard Jackson 
First Black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

I.S. Leevey Johnson 
President, S. Carolina Bar Association

John H. Johnson 
President of Johnson Publishing Company

Harvey Johnson 
1st Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

Sidney A. Jones 
Municipal Judge Circuit, Cooke County, Illinois

Ernest Morial 
Former General Pres.-Alpha Phi Alpha, Mayor New Orleans

Entertainment/Musicians 

Cannonball Adderly 
Jazz Musician

Gerald Albright 
Jazz Musician

Darryl Bell 
Actor, A Different World

Tony Brown 
Journalist, Television Producer

Peabo Bryson 
Singer

Countee Cullen 
Poet

"Duke" Ellington 
Bandleader, Composer, Pianist

Keith Garret 
Executive Producer, Martin Network Television

Marc Gay 
Singer, SHAI

Mal Goode 
1st Black Network Producer for (ABC)

Lionel Hampton 
Band Leader

Donny Hathaway 
Singer, Musician

John H. Johnson 
Publisher, Johnson Publications

Carl Martin 
Singer, SHAI

Darnell Van Rensalier 
Singer, SHAI

Lionel Richie 
Singer, Songwriter

Stuart Scott 
ESPN Sportscaster

Chuck Stone 
Philadelphia Daily News

Keenan Ivory Wayans 
Comedian, Producer
 

Sport Stars 

Walt Bellamy 
NBA Player

Junior Bridgeman 
Pro Basketball, Milwaukee Bucks

John O. Brown 
Dillard University Basketball Coach

Quinn Buckner 
NBA Player, Coach, Sportscaster

Wes Chandler 
NFL Player, San Diego Chargers

Greg Coleman 
NFL's First Black Punter

Todd Day 
NBA Player Boston Celtics

Wayne Embry 
GM, NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers

Charles Haley 
NFL Player, Dallas Cowboys

Michael Jackson 
NFL Player, Baltimore Ravens

Carnell Lake 
NFL Player Pittsburgh Steelers

Mike Merriweather 
NFL Player Pittsburgh Steelers

Chris Mills 
Cleveland Cavaliers

Brig Owens 
Former NFL Player Washington Redskins

Jesse Owens 
1936 Olympic Gold Medalist/Track & Field

Fritz Pollard 
1st Black All-American Football Player

Mike Powell 
World Record Holder Long Jump/Track & Field

Jethro Pugh 
Former NFL Player Dallas Cowboys

Ken Riley 
Pro Football, Cincinnati Bengals

Paul Robeson 
Football player, Phi Beta Kappa, Attorney, Opera Star

Eddie Robinson 
Winningest Head Coach, Grambling State University

Jackie Robinson 
1st Black to play MLB, Brooklyn Dodgers

Art Shell 
Former player and Head Coach of Oakland Raiders

Lemuel Stinson 
Former NFL player Chicago Bears, Arena - Football Grand Rapids
Rampage

Eddie Tolan 
1932 Olympic Gold Medalist/Track & Field

Wes Unseld 
Former player, head coach Washington Bullets, GM Washington Wizards

Gene Upshaw 
Executive Director NFL's Player's Association

Lenny Wilkins 
1996 USA Olympic Basketball Coach, NBA All-Time Winningest Coach

John "Hot Rod" Williams 
NBA Player, Phoenix Suns

Reggie Williams 
NFL Cincinnati Bengals Player

Eric Wright 
NFL Player San Francisco 49ers 

Educators
Calvin Burnett 
President of Coppin State

Julius Chamber 
President of North Carolina Central University

James Cheek 
Howard University

Thomas W. Cole, Jr. 
President of Clark-Atlanta University

James Costen 
President of Interdenominational Theological Center

William B. Delauder 
President of Delaware State University

James Douglas 
President of Texas-Southern University

John Hope Franklin 
Author, Historian

Norman Francis 
President of Xavier University

E. Franklin Frazier 
Sociologist 

Cornelius Henderson 
Gammon Theological Seminary

Earnest Holloway 
President of Langston University

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III 
President of University of Maryland

Fredrick Humphries 
President of Florida A&M University

Thomas F. Law 
President of St. Paul's College

Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. 
President of Houston-Tillotson College

Fredrick Patterson 
Founder, UNCF

Benjamin Payton 
President of Tuskegee University

Henry Ponder 
President of Fisk University, NAFEO

Earl Richardson 
President of Morgan State University

Walter Washington 
President of Alcorn State University

Charles H. Wesley 
Historian, President of Central Ohio State College
 

Military 
General Roscoe"Rock"Cartwright 
Third Black General, U.S. Army

Brig. General Fred A. Gorden 
Chief of Public Affairs, U.S. Army

Admiral Samuel Gravely 
Admiral, U.S. Navy

Rear Admiral Benjamin Hacker 
Rear Admiral U.S. Navy

Major General Edward Honor 
Major General, U.S. Army

Major General James McCall 
Chief, Pentagon Budget Office

Commissioner Winston Scott 
NASA Astronaut 
Science/Medicine

James Comer 
Psychologist

Lasalle Lefall 
1st Black President of American Cancer Society

Garrett Morgan 
Inventor of the Traffic Signal

Louis Sullivan 
President of Morehouse Medical School

Levi Watkins 
Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, John Hopkins Hospital
 

Business 
Henry Brown 
Vice President of Marketing Affairs & Dev./Anheuser-Busch

W. Melvin Brown 
American Development Corporation

Thomas J. Burrell 
CEO, Burrell Advertising

John Bustamante 
First National Bank Association

Darwin Davis 
Equitable Life Insurance

Nathaniel Goldston 
CEO & Founder, Gourmet Services, Inc.

Eugene Jackson 
CEO, World African Network

Charles James, III 
CEO, James Produce

Delano Lewis 
President of National Public Radio

Henry Parks 
Founder, Parks Sausage, Inc.

Thomas Shropshire 
Philip Morris, Inc.

Donald Simmons 
Simmons Oil Company

Joshua Smith 
CEO, Maxima Corporation

Wayman Smith 
Anheuser-Busch

Religious

Bishop John Hurst Adams 
President of Congress of Black Churches

Tyrone L. Cryder 
National Executive Director of Operation P.U.S.H.

Harold Davis 
President of American Baptist Churches

T.J. Jemison 
President of National Baptist Convention, America

Wyatt Tee Walker 
Executive Assistance M.L. King Jr., President of SCLC
 
 

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