Lester Granger : National Urban League
Frederick Douglass : Anti-Slavery activist
Charles Hamilton Houston : NAACP Legal Counsel
Hugh B. Price - Executive Director : National Urban League
Norman Francis : President, Xavier University
John Hope Franklin : Author, Historian
William Gray : United Negro College Fund
Cornelius Henderson : President, Gammon Theological Seminary
Ernest Hollway : President, Langston University
Garrett Morgan : Inventor, Traffic Signal
Nathaniel Goldston : CEO & Founder, Gourmet Services, Inc.,
Delano Lewis : President, National Public Radio (NPR)
Henry Parks : Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
Joshua Smith : CEO, Maxima Corporation
Duke Ellington : Jazz musician
Quincy Jones : Musician/Composer
Tony Brown : Journalist/Producer
Countee Cullen : Poet
Donny Hathaway : Musician
Bishop John Hurst Adams - President of the Congress of Black Churches
Harold Davis - President, American Baptist Churches
T.J. Jemison - President of the National Baptist Convention, USA Inc.
E. Edward Jones - President of the National Baptist Convention, America
Wyatt Tee Walker - Executive Assisstant of M.L. King Jr. in Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jesse Owens : Olympic gold medalist
Eddie Robinson : Winningest coach in college football history
Lenny Wilkens : Winningest coach in NBA history
Rosie Greer : NFL Player
Art Shell : NFL Former Player, and Coach
Todd Day : NBA Player
John "Hot Rod" Williams : NBA Player
Wes Chandler : San Diego Chargers
Fritz Pollard (First Black Head Coach in NFL history
Gene Upshaw : President of NFL Players Association
Reggie Williams : Cincinatti Bengals
Quinn Buckner : Former NBA Player and Coach
Wes Unseld : Former NBA Player and Coach
Mike Powell : World Record Track Star
John O. Brown - Basketball Coach, Dilliard University
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 Pittsburgh Steelers
Eddie Tolan - 1932 Olympic Gold Medalist, Track and Field
Eric Wright - Player NFL's San Francisco '49ers
