Famous Alpha's

 

Civil Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil rights activist

Julius L. Chambers - NAACP Legal Defense

FundLester Granger - National Urban League

Frederick Douglass - Anti-slavery activist

W.E.B. DuBois - Writer, historian, civil rights activist

Adam Clayton Powell, jr. - Civil Rights Activist

Thurgood Marshall - Civil rights activist, Supreme Court justice

Paul Robeson - Activist, scholar, singer, football player

Dick Gregory - Activist

William Gray - United Negro College Fund, businessman

Franklin Williams - Phelps-Stokes Fund

Education/Scholarship

James Check - Howard University

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

John Hope Franklin - Historian

E. Franklin Frazier - Sociologist

Dennis Kimbrough - Author

Fredrick Patterson - Founder, UNCF

Cornell West - Author

Military

Roscoe Cartwright - General, AUS

Samuel Gravely - Admiral, USN

Edward Honor - Major General, AUS

Brig. Gen. Fred A. Gorden

Adm. Samuel Gravely

Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker

Maj. Gen. Edward Honor

Maj. Gen. James McCall

Com. Winston Scott

Science/Medicine

Dr. Lessall D. Leffall - President American College of Surgeons

James Comer - Psychologist

Garrett Morgan - Inventor, Traffic Sign

Louis Sullivan - Secretary of Health and Education

Government/Politics

Ronald Brown - Former Secretary of Commerce

David Dinkins - Former mayor of New York

Willie Brown - Mayor of San Francisco

Ernest Finney - South Carolina Supreme Court Justice

Earnest "Dutch" Morial - 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans

Marc Morial - Present Mayor of New Orleans

Maynard Jackson - Former Mayor of Atlanta

Andrew Young - Former mayor of Atlanta

Marion Barry - Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Chaka Fattah - Pennsylvania Congressman

Business

Johnson H. Johnson - Entrepreneur

Doug Bush - Entrepreneur 

Entertainment

Duke Ellington - Jazz musician

Tony Brown - Journalist/Producer

Countee Cullen - Poet

Donny Hathaway - Musician

Eugene Jackson - National Black Network

Chuck Stone - Philadelphia Daily News

Keenan Ivory Wayans - Comedian, producer

Daryl Bell - Actor

Lionel Richie - Singer

Stuart Scott - Sportscenter Anchorman

Sports

Jackie Robinson - First Black Man in Major League Baseball

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 Coach

Charles Haley - NFL Player

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 - Cincinati Bengals

Quinn Buckner - Former NBA Player

Coach Wes Unseld - Former NBA Coach

Micheal Jackson - NFL Player (Cleveland Brown/Baltimore Ravens) Mu Xi