FAMOUS ALPHAS

ACTIVISTS

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : Civil Rights Activist

Julius L. Chambers: NAACP Legal Defense Lester Granger: National Urban League

Frederick Douglas: Anti-Slavery Activist

W.E.B. DuBois: Civil Rights Activists, Historian

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Civil Rights Activists

Thurgood Marshall : Supreme Court Justice

Paul Robeson: Activist, Singer, Scholar, Football Player

Dick Gregory: Activist

SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Dr. Lessall D. Leffall: President, American College of Surgeons

James Comer: Psychologist

Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Traffic Signal

Louis Sullivan: Secretary of Health and Education

ENTERTAINMENT

Daryl Bell: Actor

Tony Brown: Journalist/Producer

Countee Cullen: Poet

Duke Ellington: Jazz Musician

Donny Hathaway: Musician

Eugene Jackson: National Black Network

Stuart Scott: ESPN Anchorman

Chuck Stone: Philadelphia Daily News

Keenan Ivory Wayans: Comedian, Producer

EDUCATION

Dr. Raymond W. Cannon: 1st Edition Sphinx Magazine

James Check: Howard University

Thomas W. Cole, Jr. : President of Clark-Atlanta University

William B. DeLauder : President Delaware State University

Cornell West: Author

Norm Francis: President of Xavier University

Dr. Ronald J. Temple: Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago

John Hope Franklin: Historian

BUSINESS

John H. Johnson: Entrepreneur

Thomas J. Burrell: CEO, Burrell Advertising

Delano Lewis: President, National Public Radio

W. Melvin Brown: CEO, American Development Corp.

Henry Parks: Founder, Parks Sausages

Joshua Smith: CEO Maxima Corporation

SPORTS

Jesse Owens: Olympic Gold Medalist

Mike Powell: Track Star

Eddie Robinson: Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History

Jackie Robinson: First Black Man in Major League Baseball

Reggie Williams: Cincinnati Bengals

Fritz Pollard: 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL

Todd Day: NBA Player

Art Shell: Former NFL Player and Coach

Carnell Lake : NFL Player

Gene Upshaw: President of the NFL Players Association