| LITERATURE ***RAYMOND CANNON - 1st editor, The Sphinx ***COUNTEE CULLEN - poet ANDREW ZACKAWI - author & Rhodes scholar LAWRENCE ROSS, JR. - author MEDIA ***MAL GOODE - 1st Black network news reporter TONY BROWN - producer & host, "Tony Brown's Journal" DELANO LEWIS - former president, National Public Radio EUGENE JACKSON - part owner, World African Network STUART SCOTT - anchorman, ESPN STAN VERRETT - anchorman, ESPN CHUCK STONE - former writer, Philadelphia Daily News & journalism professor, U. of North Carolina-Chapell Hill MEDICINE/SCIENCE ***GARRETT MORGAN - inventor ***E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER - 1st Black president, American Sociologist Association DR. JAMES COMER - psychologist DR. LESSALL D. LEFFALL - president, American College of Surgeons LOUIS SULLIVAN - former U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services MILITARY ***ROSCOE "ROCK" CARTWRIGHT - Brigadier General, U.S. Army JOHNNY WILSON - Four-Star General, U.S. Army (retired) EDWARD HONOR - Brigadier General, U.S. Army FRED GORDEN - Brigadier General, U.S. Army JAMES MCCALL - Lietenant General, U.S. Army (retired) & Exec. Director, American Society of Military Comptrollers SAMUEL GRAVELY, JR. - Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy BENJAMIN HACKER - Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired) WINSTON SCOTT - Captain, U.S. Navy & NASA mission specialist SPORTS ***JESSE OWENS ***FRITZ POLLARD - 1st Black NFL coach and Hall of Famer ***BOBBY PHILLS - former NBA player ***JACKIE ROBINSON - 1st Black Major League Baseball player EDDIE ROBINSON - winningest coach in college football history LENNY WILKENS - winningest coach in NBA history, former player & Hall of Famer ART SHELL - former NFL player, head coach, NFL vice president of football operations and Hall of Famer GENE UPSHAW - president, NFL Players Association, former player and Hall of Famer MIKE POWELL - former Olympic athlete QUINN BUCKNER - former NBA player & coach WES UNSELD - former NBA player, coach and Hall of Famer TODD DAY - former NBA player NATE "TINY" ARCHIBALD - former NBA player and Hall of Famer JUNIOR BRIDGEMAN - former NBA player JOHN "HOT ROD" WILLIAMS - former NBA player GREG COLEMAN - former NFL player, 1st Black punter WES CHANDLER - former NFL player, current asst. coach ROSIE GRIER - former NFL player LEMUEL STINSON - former NFL player CHARLES HALEY - former NFL player ERIC WRIGHT - former NFL player MICHAEL JACKSON - former NFL player CARNELL LAKE - former NFL player MIKE MERRIWEATHER - former NFL player DARIUS HOLLAND - former NFL player REGGIE WILLIAMS - former NFL player & Cincinnati city councilman MICHAEL CLAYTON - current NFL player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers AMOS ZEREOUE - current NFL player, New England Patriots DONALD DRIVER - current NFL player, Green Bay Packers JASON WRIGHT - current NFL player, Atlanta Falcons JOHN THORNTON - current NFL player, Cincinnati Bengals D'HANI JONES - current NFL player, Philadelphia Eagles |
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| ***Denotes Omega Chapter, the chapter reserved for deceased brothers. CIVIC & SOCIAL CAUSES ***REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ***W.E.B. DUBOIS ***FREDERICK A. DOUGLASS ***PAUL ROBESON ***LESTER GRANGER - National Urban League ***FRANKLIN WILLIAMS - former president, Phelps-Stokes Fund DICK GREGORY JULIUS CHAMBERS - NAACP Legal Defense Fund WILLIAM GRAY, III - president, United Negro College Fund MARC MORIAL - executive director, National Urban League & former mayor of New Orleans BUSINESS JOHN JOHNSON - founder, Johnson Publications THOMAS BURRELL - CEO, Burrell Advertising W. MELVIN BROWN - CEO, American Development Corp. HENRY PARKS - founder, Parks Sausages, Inc. JOSHUA SMITH - CEO, Maxima Corp. NATHANIEL GOLDSTON - CEO & founder, Gourmet Services, Inc. WILLIAM PICKARD - CEO & president, Vitec Corp. DONALD SNYDER - CEO & president, Paper Plus ROOSEVELT ADAMS - CEO & president, Hartfield Hospitality ROBERT WRIGHT - CEO & president, Dimensions International MICHAEL C. ROGERS - Exec. VP corporate services, MedStar Health EDUCATION ***DR. FREDERICK PATTERSON - founder, UNCF DR. FREDERICK HUMPHRIES - CEO/president, NAFEO & former president, Florida A&M U. DR. WALTER KIMBROUGH - president, Philander Smith College & Black Greek historian DR. HENRY PONDER - president, Talladega College DR. JAMES CHECK - former president, Howard U. DR. JOHN L. HENDERSON - former president, Wilberforce U. DR. THOMAS COLE, JR. - president, Clark-Atlanta U. DR. WILLIAM B. DELAUDER - president, Delaware State U. DR. ROBERT HEAD - president, Urbana College DR. FREEMAN HRABOWSKI - president, U. of Maryland, Baltimore County DR. EARL RICHARDSON - president, Morgan State U. DR. RONALD J. TEMPLE - chancellor, Peralta Community College District DR. NORMAN C. FRANCIS - president, Xavier U. of La. DR. ERNEST HOLLOWAY - president, Langston U. DR. DAVID B. HENSON - president, Lincoln U. DR. PRESS ROBINSON - chancellor, Southern U. at New Orleans ENTERTAINMENT ***DUKE ELLINGTON ***DONNY HATHAWAY GERALD ALBRIGHT - jazz musician & composer DARYL BELL - actor ("Ron" from "A Different World") CARL MARTIN, DARNELL VAN RENSALLIER & MARC GAY - singers, Shai LIONEL RICHIE - R&B musician & composer KEENAN IVORY WAYANS - television & film producer, writer & actor MYKEL SHANNON JENKINS - actor, "General Hospital" GOVERNMENT ***ERNEST "DUTCH" MORIAL - 1st Black mayor, New Orleans ***EDWARD BROOKE - 1st Black U.S. Senator (post-Reconstruction) ***ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. - 1st Black city councilman, New York City & activist ***HUBERT HUMPHREY - former United State Vice President ***REV. EMMANUEL CLEAVER - former mayor, Kansas City ***MAYNARD JACKSON - 1st Black mayor, Atlanta MELVIN "KIP" HOLDEN - 1st Black mayor, Baton Rouge KWAME KILPATRICK - mayor of Detroit WILLIE BROWN - former mayor of San Francisco HARVEY JOHNSON - mayor of Jackson, MS DAVID DINKINS - 1st Black mayor, New York City ANDREW YOUNG - former mayor, Atlanta DENNIS ARCHER - former mayor, Detroit RICHARD ARRINGTON - former mayor, Birmingham CHAKAH FATTAH - U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania EARL HILLIARD - U.S. Representative, Alabama GREGORY MEEKS, U.S. Representative, New York CHARLES RANGEL, U.S. Representative, New York ROBERT C. SCOTT, U.S. Representative, Virginia ERNEST FINNEY - former South Carolina Supreme Court Justice |
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| At Nicholls State University with Lawrence Ross, Jr., author of The Divine Nine. |
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| With the legendary Coach Eddie Robinson in 1994. |