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, and Civil Rights Activist who often went tête-à-tête with Booker T. Washington regarding the black races primary focus for its own uplift. He was co-founder of the NAACP. He wrote “The Talented Tenth”; 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 - Noted Author and Professor. Former professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University. He is the author of “Race Matters “, co-author of “Jews and Blacks”, and he currently teaches at Princeton University in New Jersey; Andrew Zawacki - Rhodes Scholar, Author; Dr. Raymond W. Cannon - 1st Edition, Sphinx Magazine; Norm Francis - President, Xavier University; N.P.G. Adams - First African-American to be Dean of Howard University Medical School; Howard H. Long - Former Assistant Superintendent of D.C. Public Schools
Military
Roscoe Cartwright - General, AUS. First African American to reach the position of Brigadier General in the United States Army; Samuel Gravel - Admiral, USN; Edward Honor - Major General, AUS; Fred A. Gorden - Brigadier General; Samuel Gravely - Admiral; Benjamin Hacker - Rear Admiral; Edward Honor - Major General; James McCall - Major General
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; Levi Watkins, MD - First African American to hold the position of Associate Dean for the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Roger L. Youmans - Noted Surgeon in the Congo of Africa who is creditied with creation the modern hospital system used there today
Government / Politics
Hubert H. Humphrey - Former Vice-President of the United States of America; Roland Burris - United States Senator; Dennis Archer - Former Mayor of Detroit and First African American President of the American Bar Association; Marion Barry - Current City Councilman and Former Mayor of Washington, D.C.; Richard Arrington - First African American Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama; Willie Brown - First African American Mayor of San Francisco, California; Emanuel Cleaver - First African American Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri; David Dinkins - Former Mayor of New York; Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver - Mayor of Kansas City; Ernest Finney - South Carolina Supreme Court Justice; Earl Hilliard - Congressman, Alabama (7th District); Maynard Jackson - Former Mayor of Atlanta and First African American Mayor of that City; Thurgood Marshall - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice. First black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 33rd Solicitor General of the United States of America, and a renowned attorney. He won the Supreme Court case Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education, ending the racist tradition of separate but equal and thereby ending segregation in schools.; Earnest “Dutch” Morial - First African American Mayor of New Orleans; Marc Morial - Former Mayor of New Orleans and President 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; Edward Brooke - Former U.S. Senator and Massachusetts State Attorney General and Recipient of the 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Business
Thomas J. Burrell - CEO, Burrell Advertising; W. Melvin Brown - CEO, American Development Corp.; John H. Johnson - Entrepreneur; Publisher of Ebony and Jet Magazines; First African American to appear on the Forbes 400; 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 - World-renowned jazz composer and musician. Recipient of the French government’s highest and United States governments highest civilian awards; the Legion of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, respectively.; Donny Hathaway - Musician; Eugene Jackson - National Black Network; Stuart Scott - ESPN Anchorman; Chuck Stone - Philadelphia Daily News; Keenan Ivory Wayans - Comedian, Producer; Lionel Hampton - Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton for his amazing ability with the vibraphone.; Lionel Ritchie - Acclaimed singer and songwriter with three Grammies, seven American Music Awards, and one Oscar.; Hill Harper - Actor
Sports
Quinn Buckner - Former NBA Player and Coach; Wes Chandler - Former NFL Player; Todd Day - Former NBA Player; Bobby Phills - Former NBA Player; Rosie Greer - Former NFL Player; Charles Haley - Former NFL Player; Michael Jackson - Former NFL Player; Carnell Lake - Former NFL Player; Jesse Owens - Olympic Gold Medalist; Fritz Pollard - 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL and first African American to play in the Rose Bowl; Mike Powell - Track Star; holds the World Record for the long jump; Eddie Robinson - Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History; Art Shell - Former NFL Player and Coach; Wes Unseld - Former NBA Player and Coach; Gene Upshaw - Former President of the NFL Players Association and NFL Hall of Fame Inductee; Lenny Wilkens - Winningest Coach in NBA History; John “Hot Rod” Williams - Former NBA Player; Reggie Williams - Former NFL Player (WR); Greg Coleman - First black punter in the NFL.
