PROMINENT MEMBERS
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist
W.E.B. Dubois
Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist
Frederick Douglass
Ani-Slavery Activist
Lester Granger
National Urban League
Paul Robeson
Activist, Signer, Scholar, Football Player
Julius Chambers
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Thurgood Marshall
Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
Activists
William Gray
United Negro College Fund, Businessman
Dick Gregory
Activist
Theodore M. Barry
Civil Rights Activist, First Black Mayor - Cincinnati, OH
Education/Scholarship
John Hope Franklin
Historian
Norm Francis
President, Xavier University
Dr. Cornell West
Author
Dennis Kimbro
Author
John H. Johnson
Publisher
E. Franklin Frazier
Sociologist
Benjamin Quarles
Historian
James Cheek
President, Howard University
Charles H. Wesley
Educator, Historian
Garrett A. Morgan
Inventor (Sewing Machine)
Government
Edward W. Brooke
former U.S. Senator (MA)
Lee P. Brown
Mayor - Houston, Tx
Julian C. Dixon
U.S. Representative (CA)
U.W. Clemon
U.S. District Court Federal Judge
Channing H. Tobias
Delegate to the United Nations
Samuel Pierce
U.S. Senator of Housing & Urban Development
Maynard Jackson
Mayor - Atlanta, GA
Willie Brown
Assembly Speaker (CA)
Harry Edwards
U.S. Court of Appeals
Ralph Metcalfe
former U.S. Representative (IL)
Sports
Walt Bellamy
NBA
Carnell Lake
NFL - Pittsburgh Steelers
Walt Frazier
NBA
Greg Coleman
1st Black Punter, NFL
Eddie Robinson
Coach, Grambling State University
Mike Powell
World Record holder in long jump - Track and Field
Wayne Embry
NBA-General Manager Cleveland Cavaliers
Jesse Owens
Sports Legend - Track Star
Joe Greene
NFL
Art Shell
NFL Hall of Fame