Prominent Members

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

• The Honorable Bro. Edward William Brooke – U.S. Senator
• The Honorable Bro. 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

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
• Lenny Wilkens – Winningest Coach in NBA History