Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil rights activist; 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.

Dr. Lessall D. Leffall - President American College of Surgeons; Garrett Morgan - Inventor, Traffic Signal; Louis Sullivan - Secretary of Health and Education.

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 - 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.

Johnson H. Johnson - Entrepreneur; Doug Bush - Entrepreneur.

Duke Ellington - Jazz musician; Quincy Jones - Producer, 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.

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 - Cincinatti Bengals; Quinn Buckner - Former NBA Player and Coach; Wes Unseld - Former NBA Coach.