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