Prominent Members
Activists
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights Activist
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Frederick Douglass – Anti-Slavery Activist
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Thurgood Marshall – Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
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William Gray – United Negro College Fund, Businessman
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Julius L. Chambers – NAACP Legal Defense fund
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W.E.B. Dubois – Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist
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Paul Robeson – Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player
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Franklin Williams – Phelps-Stokes Fund
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Lester Granger – National Urban League
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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – Civil Rights Activist
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Dick Gregory – Activist
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Theodore M. Berry – Civil Rights Activist, First Black Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Education/Scholarship
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James Check – Howard University
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John Hope Franklin – Historian
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Frederick Patterson – Found, UNCF
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Andrew Zawacki – Rhodes Scholar, Author
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Thomas W. Cole, Jr. – President, Clark-Atlanta University
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E. Franklin Frazier – Sociologist
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Dr. Ronald J. Temple – Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
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William B. DeLauder – President, Delaware St. University
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Dennis Kimbro – Author
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Dr. Cornel West – Author
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Norm Francis – President, Xavier University
Military
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Roscoe Cartwright – General, AUS
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Fred A. Gorden – Brigadier General
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Edward Honor – Lieutenant General, Army, Retired
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Samual Gravely – Admiral, USN
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Benjamin Hacker – Rear Admiral
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James McCall – Major General
Science/Medicine
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Dr. Lessall D. Leffall – President, American College of Surgeons
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Louis Sullivan – Secretary of Health and Education
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James Comer – Psychologist
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Winston Scott – Navy Commander, Astronaut NASA
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Garrett Morgan – Inventor, Traffic Signal
Government/Politics
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The Honorable Bro. Edward William Brooke – U.S. Senator
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The Honorable Bro. Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver – Former Mayor, Kansas City
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Dennis Archer – Former Mayor Detroit
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Willie Brown – Former Mayor of San Francisco
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David Dinkins – Former Mayor of New York
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Earl Hilliard – Former Congressman, Alabama (7th District)
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Charles Rangel – Congressman, New York (15th District)
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Richard Arrington – Former Mayor of Birmingham
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Roland W. Burris – U.S. Senator
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Chaka Fattah – Congressman, Pennsylvania
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Maynard Jackson – Former Mayor of Atlanta
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Earnest “Dutch” Morial – 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans
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Robert C. Scott – Congressman, Virgina (3rd District)
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Edward William Brooke – U.S. Senator
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Ernest Finney – South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
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Kwame Kilpatrick – Former Mayor of Detroit
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Marc Morial – Former Mayor of New Orleans
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Andrew Young – Former Mayor of Atlanta
Business
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Thomas J. Burrell – CEO, Burrell Advertising
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Delano Lewis – President, National Public Radio
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W. Melvin Brown – CEO, American Development Corp
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Henry Parks – Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
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Jonh H. Johnson – Entrepreneur
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Joshua Smith – CEO, Maxima Corporation
Entertainment
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Daryl Bell – Actor
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Duke Ellington – Jazz Musician
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Stuart Scott – ESPN Anchorman
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Tony Brown – Journalist/Producer
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Donny Hathaway – Musician
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Chuck Stone – Philadelphia Daily News
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Countee Cullen – Poet
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Eugene Jackson – National Black Network
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Keenan Ivory Wayans – Comedian, Producer
Sports
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Quinn Buckner – Former NBA Player and Coach
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Rosie Greer – Former NFL Player
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Carnell Lake – NFL Player
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Mike Powell – Track Star
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Donald Driver – NFL Player
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Wes Unseld – Former NBA Player and Coach
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John “Hot Rod” Williams – Former NBA Player
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Wes Chandler – Former NFL Player
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Charles Haley – NFL Player
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Jesse Owens – Olympic Gold Medalist
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Eddie Robinson – Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History
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Gene Upshaw – President of the NFL Players Association
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Reggie Williams – Cincinnati Bengals
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Todd Day – NBA Player
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Michael Jackson – NFL Player
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Fritz Pollard – 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL
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Art Shell – NFL Head Coach and Former NFL Player
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Lenny Wilkens – Winningest Coach in NBA History