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PROMINENT MEMBERS

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Activist 

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W.E.B. Dubois

Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist 

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Frederick Douglass 

Ani-Slavery Activist

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Lester Granger 

National Urban League

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Paul Robeson

Activist, Signer, Scholar, Football Player

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Julius Chambers 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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Thurgood Marshall 

Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice 

Activists 

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William Gray

United Negro College Fund, Businessman

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Dick Gregory

Activist 

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Theodore M. Barry

Civil Rights Activist, First Black Mayor - Cincinnati, OH

Education/Scholarship

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John Hope Franklin

Historian 

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Norm Francis

President, Xavier University

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Dr. Cornell West

Author

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Dennis Kimbro

Author

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John H. Johnson

Publisher 

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E. Franklin Frazier

Sociologist

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Benjamin Quarles 

Historian 

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James Cheek 

President, Howard University

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Charles H. Wesley

Educator, Historian 

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Garrett A. Morgan

Inventor (Sewing Machine) 

Government 

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Edward W. Brooke

former U.S. Senator (MA)

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Lee P. Brown

Mayor - Houston, Tx

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Julian C. Dixon

U.S. Representative (CA)

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U.W. Clemon

U.S. District Court Federal Judge

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Channing H. Tobias 

Delegate to the United Nations 

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Samuel Pierce 

U.S. Senator of Housing & Urban Development 

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Maynard Jackson 

Mayor - Atlanta, GA

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Willie Brown 

Assembly Speaker (CA)

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Harry Edwards 

U.S. Court of Appeals

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Ralph Metcalfe

former U.S. Representative (IL)

Sports

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Walt Bellamy 

NBA

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Carnell Lake

NFL - Pittsburgh Steelers

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Walt Frazier

NBA

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Greg Coleman 

1st Black Punter, NFL

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Eddie Robinson 

Coach, Grambling State University 

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Mike Powell

World Record holder in long jump - Track and Field 

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Wayne Embry

NBA-General Manager Cleveland Cavaliers 

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Jesse Owens

Sports Legend - Track Star

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Joe Greene

NFL

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Art Shell

NFL Hall of Fame

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