Activists

Julius L. Chambers: NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Frederick Douglass: Anti-Slavery Activist

W.E.B. DuBois: Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist

Lester Granger: National Urban League

William Gray: United Negro College Fund, Businessman

Dick Gregory: Activist

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Activist

Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice

Marc Morial: National Urban League

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: Civil Rights Activist

Paul Robeson: Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player

Franklin Williams: Phelps-Stokes Fund

 

Government / Politics

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

Kwame Kilpatrick: Mayor of Detroit

Thurgood Marshall: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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

Marc Morial: Former Mayor of New Orleans
President and CEO of the National Urban League

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

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

Andrew Young: Former Mayor of Atlanta

 

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

Fritz Pollard: 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL

Mike Powell: Track Star

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

Education / Scholarship

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

James Check: Howard University

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

William B. DeLauder: President, Delaware St. University

Norm Francis: President, Xavier 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

 

Science / Medicine

James Comer: Psychologist

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

Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Traffic Signal

Louis Sullivan: Secretary of Health and Education

Winston Scott: Commander, NASA

 

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

 

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