CIVIC LEADERS

W.E.B. DuBois
Social Activist, Leader

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Lester Granger

 Executive Director
National Urban League

Dick Gregory
Activist
 

Charles Hamilton Houston
NAACP Legal Council

Hugh B. Price

 Executive Director
National Urban League

Paul Robeson
Actor, Athlete, Activist

Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Executive Director
National Urban League

Education / Scholarship

Calvin Burnett

 President
Coppin State University

James Costen
Interdenominational Theological Center

Julius L. Chambers

 Chancellor
North Carolina Central University

Thomas W. Cole, Jr.

 President
Clark-Atlanta University

Thomas W. Cole, Sr.

 President
Wiley College

James Douglas

 President
Texas Southern University

Norman Francis

 President
Xavier University

John Hope Franklin
Author, Historian

Cornelius Henderson

 President
Gammon Theological Seminary

Ernest Halloway

 President
Langston University

Frederick Humphries
 President
Florida A&M University

Thomas F. Law

 President
St. Paul’s College

Banjamin Payton

 President
Tuskegee University

Henry Ponder

 President
Fisk University

Earl Richardson

 President
Morgan State University

Walter Washington

 President
Alcorn State University

Charles H. Wesley

  Historian
President, Central Ohio State College

GOVERNMENT (FEDERAL)

O. Rudloph Aggrey
U.S. Ambassador to Romania

Edward W. Brooke

 U.S. Senator
Massachusetts

Lee P. Brown

 Director Office of National
Drug Control Policy/War on Drugs Program

U.W. Clemon

 Federal Judge
U.S. District Court

William Coleman
U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Ronald V. Dellums

 California, 9^th District
U.S. House of Representatives

Julian C. Dixon

 California, 32^nd District
U.S. House of Representatives

Harold Ford

 Tennessee, 9^th District
U.S. House of Representatives

William H. Gray, III
Former Congressman, Pennsylvania
U.S. House of Representatives
President and CEO, United Negro College Fund, Inc.

Earl Hilliard

 Alabama, 7^th District
U.S. House of Representatives

James A. Joseph
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa

Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Ralph Metcalfe

 Illinois
U.S. House of Representatives

Samuel Pierce
U.S. Secretary of HUD

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
U.S. Representative, New York

Charles Rangel

 New York, 15^th District
U.S. House of Representatives

Robert C. Scott

 Virginia, 3^rd District
U.S. House of Representatives

Bennett Stewart, Illinois
U.S. House of Representatives

Andrew Young

U.N. Ambassador
U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia
Mayor of Atlanta

GOVERNMENT (STATE/LOCAL)

Dennis Archer, Mayor
Detroit, Michigan

Richard Arrington, Mayor
Birmingham, Alabama

Thomas V. Barnes, Mayor
Gary, Indiana

Marion Barrry, Mayor
Washington, D.C.

Willie Brown, Mayor
San Francisco, California

Emanuel Clever, Mayor
Kansas City, Missouri

Charles H. Davenport
First African American Chief of Police
Vicksburg, Mississippi

David Dinkins, Mayor
New York, New York

Maynard Jackson, Mayor
Atlanta, Georgia

Sidney A. Jones

Municipal Court Judge
Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois

Ernest M. Morial, first African American Mayor
New Orleans, Louisiana

Marc H. Morial, Mayor
New Orleans, Louisiana

Charles Price, Circuit Court judge
Montgomery County, Maryland

Norman Rice, Mayor
Seattle, Washington

Eugene Sawyer, Mayor
Chicago, Illinois

BUSINESS LEADERS

Henry Brown, Vice President
Marketing Affairs and Development
Anheuser-Busch

Thomas J. Burreil, CEO
Burreil Advertising

W. Melvin Brown, CEO
American Development Corporation

Eugene Jackson, CEO
World African Network

Charles James, III, CEO
James Produce

Nathaniel Goldston, CEO and Founder
Gourmet Services, Inc.

Delano Lewis, President
National Public Radio

Henry Parks,* Founder
Parks Sausage, Inc.

Joshua Smith, CEO
Maxima Corporation

MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT

Gerald Albright
Jazz Musician

Darryl Bell, Actor
A Different World, Network Television

Tony Brown
Journalist, Television Producer

Countee Cullen
Poet

"Duke Ellington"
Bandleader, Pianist, Composer

Mai Goode
First African American Reporter

Keith Garrett, Executive Producer
Martia, Network Television

Lionel Hampton
Band Leader

Donny Hathaway
Singer, Musician

John H. Johnson
Publisher, Founder
Johnson Publications

Marc Gay
Singer, SHAI

Carl Martin
Singer, SHAI

Darnell Van Rensalier
Singer, SHAI

MILITARY

Benjamin Hacker
Rear Admiral U.S. Navy
Commander, San Diego Naval Base

James McCall, Major General
Chief, Pentagon Budget Office

Winston Scott, Commander
NASA Astronaut

RELIGIOUS

John Hurst Adams, Bishop, President
Congress of Black Churches

Harold Davis, President
American Baptist Churches

T.J. Jemison, President
National Baptist Convention

E. Edward Jones
National Baptist Convention, America

Wyatt Tee Walker, Exec. Assistant M.J. King, Jr.
President Southern Christian Leadership Conference

SCIENCE/MEDICINE

James Corner, Psychologist
 

Levi Watkins
Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery
John Hopkins Hospital

Lasalle Lefalle
First African American President
American Cancer Society

Garrett Morgan
Inventor of the Traffic Signal

Louis Sullivan, President
Morehouse Medical School

SPORTS FIGURES

Walt Bellamy
NBA Player

Junior Bridgeman
NBA Player

John O. Brown, Basketball Coach
Dillard University

Quinn Buckner
NBA Player, Coach, Sportscaster

Wes Chandler
Player, NFL’s San Diego Chargers

Greg Coleman
NFL’s First African American Punter

Wayne Embry, General Manager
NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers

Charles Haley
Player, NFL’s Dallas Cowboys

Carnell Lake
NFL Player, Pittsburgh Steelers

Jesse Owens

1936 Olympic Gold Medalist
Track and Field

Mike Powell
World Record Holder Long Jump
Track and Field

Fritz Pollard
First African American All-American Football Player

Eddie Robinson, Coach
Grambling State University

Art Shell
NFL Coach Kansas City Cheifs/Oakland Raiders
NFL Hall of Fame

Eddie Tolan
1932 Olympic Gold Medalist
Track and Field

Eugene Upshaw, Executive Director
NFL’s Players’ Association

Lenny Wilkins, 1996 USA Olympic Basketball Coach
NBA Coach, Atlanta Hawks/Cleveland Cavaliers

Reggie Williams
Player, NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals

Eric Wright
Player, NFL’s San Francisco 49ers

Just To Name A Few

As The Alpha Legacy Continues!!!!!!