Business

• Dr. Rev. Ralph Abernathy* - Civil Rights Leader and former president of SCLC
• Dr. Samual D. Proctor
• Dr. Rev. Leon Sullivan - Pastor of Zion Baptist Church - Philadelphia, PA
• Rev. Gardner C. Taylor Bishop Eddie L. Long
• Rev. Calvin O. Butts - Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church - Harlem, NY
• Dr. William Gibson - Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of NAACP
• C. Vernon Mason - Prominent civil rights attorney and activist
• Judge Herman Thomas - State Supreme Court of Alabama, Board of Trustees - University of South Alabama

• Dr. Joseph B. Johnson
• Dr. Harold M. McNeil
• Dr. Robert L. Randolph
• Dr. Dallas Simmons
• Dr. William E. Sims
• Dr. Harrison B. Wilson Jr.
• Dr. Samuel Massie Dr. Horace M. Bond - Past president of Lincoln University (PA)
• Dr James Shepherd* - Founder and first president of NCCU
• Dr. Kenneth B. Clark - Prominent social psychologist and researcher
• Dr. C. Eric Lincoln - Author of Black Muslims in America
• Arthur Schomburg - Historian and scholar of African-American culture

• Kenny Burrell - Jazz
• Donald Byrd - Jazz
• John Singleton - Oscar nominated Director/Screenwriter
• Dr. Billy Taylor - Jazz
• Cedric the Entertainer - Comedian, The Steve Harvey Show
• Joe Clair - Rap City Host
• Tavis Smiley - BET Talk Show Host
• Montell Jordan - R&B Singer
• William Grant Still - Composer and Musician
• William Raspberry - Syndicated Columnist for Washington Post
• Ed Bradley - Investigative Reporter for 60 Minutes
• Ralph Wiley - Sports Writer and Author
• Whitman Mayo - Actor who starred as Grady on 'Sanford and Son'
• Jester Hairston - Actor who starred as Rolly Forbes on 'Amen'
• Earnest Thomas - Actor who starred as Roger on 'What's Happening'

• Past Grand Polemarch Thomas Bradley - Former Mayor of LA
• John Conyers - Congressman (D-MI)
• Vernon Jones - Georgia State Representative
• George Crockett Jr.- Congressman (D-MI)
• Walter Fauntroy - Congressman (D-D.C.)
• Mayor Elihu Harris - Oakland, CA.
• Judge Carl Stokes - First A-A mayor of a major US city (Cleveland)
• Louis Stokes - Congressman (D-OH)
• Mayor Wellington Webb - Denver CO
• Mayor Michael White - Cleveland, OH
• Marvin Arrington - Atlanta City Council President
• Mervyn Dymally - Congressman (D-CA)
• Rep. Alcee Hastings - Florida
• Rep. Albert R Wynn - Maryland
• Rep. Sanford Bishop - Georgia
• Bennie Thompson - Congressman (D-MS)
• Edward Perkins - Ambassador to Australia
• W. Wilson Goode - First AA Mayor of Philadelphia

• Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr USAF* - First AA 4 Star General , Tuskeegee Airman
• Thomas D. Parham, Jr USN

• Bernard A. Harris, Jr.
• Dr. Henry Foster - Surgeon General Nominee

• Arthur Ashe* - Tennis
• Ernest Byner - Football
• Wilt Chamberlain - Basketball
• Willie D. Davis - Football
• Greg Lloyd - Football
• Kenny Lofton - Baseball
• Bill Russell - Basketball
• Oscar Robertson - Basketball
• Gayle Sayers - Football
• Kerry Kittles - Basketball
• Lorenzen Wright - Basketball
• Jon Drummond - Track and Field
• Anfernee Hardaway - Basketball
• J.J. Birden - Football
• Bernie Bickerstaff - Basketball
• Rolando Blackman - Basketball
• Danny Manning - Basketball
• Johnny Newman - Basketball
• Elliot Perry - Basketball
• Chris Oldham - Football
• Ron Dickerson - Football
• Derek Loville - Football
• Steve Wallace - Football
• Eric Davis - Football
• Larry Finch - Basketball
• Alex English - Basketball
• Alan Henderson - Basketball
• Larry Brown - Football
• Glyn Milburn - Football
• Carl Jackson - Football
• Bob Simmons - Football
• John Chaney - Basketball
• Sam Jones - Basketball
• Allan Houston - Basketball
• Emmett L. Ashford - Baseball Umpire (first black)
• Frederick "Duke" Slater - Football