ALPHA PHI ALPHA NOTABLE ALPHAS · NOTABLE ALPHAS 5 THE SEVEN JEWELS THE FOUNDERS NAME CHAPTER NOTABILITY THE JEWELS Henry A. Callis Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha …

ALPHA PHI ALPHA

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FRATERNITY MISSION STATEMENT

ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY DEVELOPS LEADERS, PROMOTES BROTHERHOOD AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, WHILE PROVIDING

SERVICE AND ADVOCACY FOR OUR COMMUNITIES.

FRATERNITY VISION STATEMENT

The objectives of this Fraternity shall be: to stimulate the ambition of its members; to prepare them for the greatest usefulness in

the causes of humanity, freedom, and dignity of the individual; to encourage the highest and noblest form of manhood; and to aid

down-trodden humanity in its efforts to achieve higher social, economic and intellectual status.

The first two objectives- (1) to stimulate the ambition of its members and (2) to prepare them for the greatest usefulness in the cause of humanity, freedom, and dignity of the individual-serve as the basis

for the establishment of Alpha University.

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Table Of Contents

THE JEWELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

PROFESSORS & RESEARCHERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

RHODES SCHOLARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

ENTERTAINMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MUSIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

FILM, TELEVISION, & THEATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

GOVERNMENT/LAW/PUBLIC POLICY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

VICE PRESIDENTS/SUPREME COURT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

CABINET & CABINET LEVEL RANKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

GOVERNORS & LT. GOVERNORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

AMBASSADORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

MAYORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

JUDGES/LAWYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

U.S. POLITICAL & LEGAL FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

OFFICIALS OUTSIDE THE U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

JOURNALISM/MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

MILITARY SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

RELIGION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

SCIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

SERVICE/SOCIAL REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

OLYMPICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

BASKETBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

AMERICAN FOOTBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

OTHER ATHLETICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

OTHER ALPHAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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THE FOUNDERS

NAME CHAPTER NOTABILITY

THE JEWELS

Henry A. Callis AlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 6th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Charles H. Chapman AlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Professor of Agriculture at FAMU

Eugene K. Jones Alpha

Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roo-sevelt’s Black Cabinet

George B. Kelley Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Nathaniel A. Murray Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Robert H. Ogle AlphaCo-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; professional staff member to the Committee on Appropriations.

Vertner W. Tandy Alpha

Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; Architect, whose most famous commission was prob-ably the mansion of Harlem millionairess Madam C.J. Walker

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ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS

Herman Branson Beta GammaPresident of Central State University and Lin-coln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; Sickle cell physicist

James P. Brawley “unknown” President of Clark College

Calvin Burnett Delta Lambda President of Coppin State University

Julius Chambers Gamma Beta

Attorney who argued in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University

James Cheek Beta Rho President of Howard University

Thomas W. Cole, Jr. Alpha Sigma

First President of Clark Atlanta University, President of West Virginia State University, Interim Chancellor of University of Massachu-setts Amherst

Thomas W. Cole, Sr. Alpha SigmaPresident of Wiley College; 21st General Presi-dent of Alpha Phi Alpha

Matthew Davage Alpha PhiPresident of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University

William B. Delauder Beta Alpha President of Delaware State University

James Douglas Delta Theta First President of Texas Southern University

Floyd H. FlakeZeta Gamma Lambda

Representative from Illinois; President of Wil-berforce University

Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Delta Zeta Lambda

Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Represen-tatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University

Luther H. Foster, Jr. Beta Gamma Fourth President of Tuskegee University

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ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS CONT.

Luther H. Foster, Sr. “unknown” President of Virginia State University

Norman Francis Sigma LambdaPresident of Xavier University; President of Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presi-dential Medal of Freedom recipient

James Gavin Gamma Mu President of Morehouse School of Medicine

Hugh Gloster Alpha Rho President of Morehouse College

George Gore, Jr. “unknown”First President of Florida A&M University; In-terim President of Fisk University; Founder of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society

Cornelius Henderson Alpha Phi President of Gammon Theological Seminary

Charles Hines BetaPresident of Prairie View A&M University; Major General

Ernest Holloway Beta Kappa 14th President of Langston University

John Hope Eta Lambda

First Black President of Morehouse College; President of Atlanta University; Co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient

Freeman A. Hrabowski III Delta LambdaPresident of the University of Maryland Balti-more County; social activist

Frederick Humphries Beta Nu First President of Florida A&M University

Charles S. Johnson ThetaEditor of the National Urban League’s Oppor-tunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk University

Walter M. Kimbrough Zeta Pi President of Philander Smith College

Raphael Lanier Mu LambdaUnited States Ambassador to Liberia; First President of Texas Southern University

Thomas F. Law “unknown” First President of St. Paul's College

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John H. Lewis “unknown” President of Morris Brown College

John Middleton “unknown” President of Morris Brown College

Luna Mishoe “unknown” President of Delaware State University

Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. Beta First President of Huston-Tillotson College

Frederick D. Patterson “unknown”

Third President Tuskegee University; Co-founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient

Benjamin Payton “unknown” Fifth President of Tuskegee University

Henry Ponder Beta Kappa

President of Talladega College, Fisk University and Benedict College; 28th General Presi-dent of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice-chairman World Policy Council

Earl Richardson “unknown” President of Morgan State University

John Slaughter Kappa TauPresident of University of Maryland and Oc-cidental College; First African American Director of the National Science Foundation

Louis Wade Sullivan Alpha RhoSecretary of Health and Human Services; Co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine

Ronald TempleDelta Gamma Lambda

President of City Colleges of Chicago

PROFESSORS & RESEARCHERS

L. Jerome Brandon Zeta Omicron

First Black Preisdent of the Southeast Re-gional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, Research in the metabolic syndrome primarily in African Americans; also some research in aging and physical function in African Americans

John Hope Franklin Alpha ZetaPresident of American Historical Association; 1995 Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2006 Kluge Prize recipient

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Hobart Jarrett Alpha Sigma

Member of the Wiley College Debate Team that in 1935 defeated the University of South-ern California national champions; author of the second volume of The History of Sigma Pi Phi

Elgy Johnson “unknown” Mathematician

Kelly Miller BetaMathematician; First Black admitted to Johns Hopkins University; Author of Out of the House of Bondage

(Honorary)

James A. Porter BetaFirst scholar whose book Modern Negro Art became a standard reference work on Black Art in America

Cornel West Zeta Beta Lambda Professor of religion at Harvard and Princeton

RHODES SCHOLARS

Norman Washington Manley Beta Beta LambdaPrime Minister of Jamaica, Founder of Ja-maica's People's National Party, 1914 Rhodes Scholar

Westley Moore Sigma Sigma 2001 Rhodes Scholar

Randal Pinkett "unknown"4th Winner of NBC's reality show, The Ap-prentice; Rhodes Scholar

Kurt Schmoke "Unknown"First Black Mayor of Baltimore; Rhodes Scholar

Andrew Zawacki Kappa Pi 1994 Rhodes Scholar

BUSINESS

Jesse Binga Honorary Founder of Binga State Bank in Chicago

Henry Brown “unknown”Vice President for Marketing Affairs and De-velopment with Anheuser-Busch

W. Melvin Brown Beta Delta CEO of American Development Corporation

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Allen Counts Beta

Chairman, Doley Securities, Inc.; former Presi-dent, Mcclendon, Pryor, Counts (once the largest black-owned investment bank in the USA)

Thomas J. Burrell Theta CEO of Burrell Advertising

Nathaniel Goldston “unknown” CEO and founder of Gourmet Services

Alonzo F. Herndon Eta LambdaFounder and President of Atlanta Life In-surance; namesake of the Alonzo Herndon Stadium at Morris Brown College

(Honorary)

Norris Herndon Sigma President of Atlanta Life Insurance

Eugene Jackson Epsilon Psi CEO of World African Network

Charles James III “unknown” CEO of James Produce

Clifton Jeter BetaCEO, Agricultural Federal Credit Union; CFO of Kennedy Center

John H. Johnson Theta

Founder of Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines; First Black to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich List, namesake of Howard University’s School of Communications, Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1966 Spingarn Medal recipi-ent; a portion of Chicago’s famed Michigan Avenue was renamed John H. Johnson Avenue

L.D. Milton “unknown” President of Citizens Bank

Henry Parks Kappa Founder of Parks Sausage

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Samuel Pierce Alpha

Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-ment; Argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and the New York Times in the impor-tant First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company

ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC

Cannonball Adderley Beta Nu Jazz Saxophonist

Gerald Albright Iota Chi American Jazz Saxophonist

Jerry Butler Xi LambdaSongwriter, composer, former lead singer of The Impressions

Duke Ellington Alpha Zeta Lambda

Composer, bandleader, actor; Grammy Award winner; 1959 Spingarn Medal and 1969 Presi-dential Medal of Freedom recipient; Pulitzer Prize in recognition of his musical genius

Marc Gay Beta Singer in the R&B group Shai

Lionel Hampton PhiJazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient; Goodwill Ambassa-dor for the United States

Antonio Hart Sigma Jazz Saxophonist

Donny Hathaway Beta

Songwriter and arranger for The Staple Sing-ers, Jerry Butler, and Aretha Franklin; singer who recorded duets with Roberta Flack, recorded the theme song to the TV series Maude

Fletcher Henderson Alpha PhiPianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing music

Carl Martin Beta Singer in the R&B group Shai

Lionel Richie Alpha Nu LambdaSinger and member of the Commodores, Grammy Award and Academy Award winner; 2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree

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Noble Sissle “unknown”

Jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, and singer of the Harlem Renaissance; lyricist of Shuffle Along which became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans

Darnell Van Rensalier Beta Singer in the R&B group Shai

FILM, TELEVISION, & THEATER

Darryl M. Bell Delta Zeta Actor, best known for A Different World

Benny Boom Pi Rho Director of music videos

Rusty Cundieff Alpha DeltaActor, writer; director of Tales from the Hood, and the Chappelle's Show; correspondent on TV Nation

Todd Duncan “unknown”

First Black to sing with a major opera com-pany and also the original Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; 1984 George Pea-body Medal of Music recipient

Derek Fordjour Delta ChiProducer of "The Black Sorority Project: The Exodus", the story of Delta Sigma Theta So-rority

Gary Hardwick EpsilonProducer, writer, director of The Brothers, De-liver Us from Eva, "Radio", and Bring It On

Rob Hardy Beta NuProducer, writer, director and actor of films such as The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp the Yard, and Trois

Kefla Hare Xi Beta Cast Member, Road Rules: Down Under

Gabriel Langley Beta SigmaCast Member, best known for College Hill, the first African American reality television show

Vaughn Lowery Alpha Spokesmodel for Joe Boxer

William Packer Beta NuProducer, writer, director and actor of films such as The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp the Yard, and Trois

Joseph C. Phillips Iota Zeta LambdaActor in The Cosby Show, General Hospital, and Strictly Business, political commentator on NPR’s "News and Notes with Ed Gordon"

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Randal Pinkett "unknown"4th Winner of NBC's reality show, The Ap-prentice; Rhodes Scholar

Paul Robeson NuNFL player, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate

Keenen Ivory Wayans Gamma PhiCreator of comedy series In Living Color; Actor, comedian, writer, director; Emmy Award winner

Jamar White Delta ChiProducer of "The Black Sorority Project: The Exodus", the story of Delta Sigma Theta So-rority

Drew Watkins BetaProducer, Inside the NBA; 2-time Emmy Award winner

GOVERNMENT/LAW/PUBLIC POLICY

VICE PRESIDENTS/SUPREME COURT

Hubert Humphrey Honorary

38th Vice President of the United States; 1968 Presidential candidate; Senator from Minnesota; Mayor of Minneapolis; 1979 Con-gressional Gold Medal and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

Thurgood Marshall Nu

First Black Justice of U.S. Supreme Court; Attorney in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; First Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; 1946 Sp-ingarn Medal and 1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

CABINET & CABINET LEVEL RANKS

Lee P. Brown Epsilon BetaDirector of National Drug Control Policy; First African-American Mayor of Houston, Texas

Robert J. Brown “unknown” Special Assistant for Minority Affairs

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William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.

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Secretary of Transportation; First Black Su-preme Court law clerk; co-author of the brief in the landmark Brown v. Board of Educa-tion of Topeka; co-counsel on the landmark case, McLaughlin v. Florida, which established the constitutionality of interracial marriages; Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1995 Presi-dential Medal of Freedom recipient;

Rayford Logan Omicron

First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roo-sevelt’s Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Sp-ingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Samuel Pierce Alpha


Emmett Scott Honorary Special Assistant to the Secretary of War


MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

SENATE

Edward Brooke Beta

Senator from Massachusetts; Attorney Gen-eral of Massachusetts; Chairman Emeritus of World Policy Council; 1967 Spingarn Medal and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom re-cipient

HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-TIVES

Emanuel Cleaver Delta ThetaRepresentative from Missouri; Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri

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William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.

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Secretary of Transportation; First Black Su-preme Court law clerk; co-author of the brief in the landmark Brown v. Board of Educa-tion of Topeka; co-counsel on the landmark case, McLaughlin v. Florida, which established the constitutionality of interracial marriages; Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1995 Presi-dential Medal of Freedom recipient;



Samuel Pierce Alpha


Emmett Scott Honorary Special Assistant to the Secretary of War


MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

SENATE

Edward Brooke Beta

Senator from Massachusetts; Attorney Gen-eral of Massachusetts; Chairman Emeritus of World Policy Council; 1967 Spingarn Medal and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom re-cipient

HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-TIVES

Emanuel Cleaver Delta ThetaRepresentative from Missouri; Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri

Danny K. Davis “unknown” Representative from Illinois

William Levi Dawson Theta Representative from Illinois

Ron Dellums Xi RhoRepresentative from California; Co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; Mayor of Oakland

Julian C. Dixon Gamma Xi Representative from California

Chaka FattahZeta Omicron Lambda

Representative from Pennsylvania

Floyd H. FlakeZeta Gamma Lambda

Representative from Illinois; President of Wil-berforce University

Harold Ford, Sr. Beta OmicronRepresentative from Tennessee; Legislator of Tennessee

William H. Gray RhoRepresentative from Pennsylvania; House Majority Whip and House Democratic Whip; CEO of the United Negro College Fund

Al Green Beta Nu Representative from Texas

Earl F. Hilliard Alpha RhoRepresentative from Alabama; Legislator of Alabama

Gregory W. Meeks Zeta Zeta LambdaRepresentative from New York; New York State Assembly

Ralph Metcalfe Nu XiRepresentative from Illinois; Co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; 1932 and 1936 Olympian

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. “unknown” Representative from New York

Charles B. RangelAlpha Gamma Lambda

Representative from New York; Co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; First Black to chair the Committee on Ways and Means; New York State Assembly Representative

David Scott Beta Nu Representative from Georgia

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Robert C. Scott Sigma Representative from Virginia

Bennett M. Stewart “unknown” Representative from Illinois

GOVERNORS & LT. GOVERNORS

Walter A. Gordon Alpha Epsilon17th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Federal District Judge of the United States Virgin Islands

Joe Rogers Omicron Tau Lieutenant Governor of Colorado

Roy L. Schneider Beta25th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands

Charles Wesley Turnbull Gamma Iota26th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands

James R. Williams Alpha TauLieutenant Governor of Ohio candidate, 25th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

AMBASSADORS

Orison Rudolph Aggrey Gamma IotaRepublic of The Gambia, Republic of Senegal, and Romania

Archibald Carey, Jr “unknown” Diplomat

Walter Carrington SigmaRepublic of Senegal and Federal Republic of Nigeria

Horace Dawson Nu Chapter

Republic of Botswana; Director of the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; Chairman of the World Policy Council

Frederick Douglass Omega Republic of Haiti; Anti-slavery activist

Lionel Hampton PhiGoodwill Ambassador; Jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient

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Robert C. Scott Sigma Representative from Virginia

Bennett M. Stewart “unknown” Representative from Illinois

GOVERNORS & LT. GOVERNORS

Walter A. Gordon Alpha Epsilon17th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Federal District Judge of the United States Virgin Islands

Joe Rogers Omicron Tau Lieutenant Governor of Colorado

Roy L. Schneider Beta25th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands

Charles Wesley Turnbull Gamma Iota26th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands

James R. Williams Alpha TauLieutenant Governor of Ohio candidate, 25th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

AMBASSADORS

Orison Rudolph Aggrey Gamma IotaRepublic of The Gambia, Republic of Senegal, and Romania

Archibald Carey, Jr “unknown” Diplomat

Walter Carrington SigmaRepublic of Senegal and Federal Republic of Nigeria

Horace Dawson Nu Chapter

Republic of Botswana; Director of the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; Chairman of the World Policy Council

Frederick Douglass Omega Republic of Haiti; Anti-slavery activist

Lionel Hampton PhiGoodwill Ambassador; Jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient

James A. Joseph Beta Sigma South Africa; Under Secretary of Interior

Kenton Keith Upsilon State of Qatar

Raphael Lanier Mu LambdaLiberia; First President of Texas Southern Uni-versity

Delano Lewis Upsilon

South Africa; President and Chief Executive Officer of National Public Radio; President of The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company

Donald McHenry Eta Tau United Nations

John H. Morrow Delta Iota

First United States Ambassador to Guinea after its independence; first U. S. Represen-tative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Gerald Eustis Thomas “unknown” Guyana and Kenya

Terence Todman “unknown”Republic of Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, and Argentina

Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. Sigma Norway and Minister to Romania

Franklin Williams “unknown”Republic of Ghana and the United Nations; President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund

Andrew Young Beta

The United Nations; Representative from Georgia; 2-term Mayor of Atlanta; 1990 Gov-ernor of Georgia candidate; 1978 Spingarn Medal, 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and French Légion d'honneur recipient

MAYORS

Dennis Archer Alpha UpsilonJustice of the Michigan Supreme Court; Mayor of Detroit, Michigan; First Black Presi-dent of the American Bar Association

Richard Arrington Gamma Kappa First Black Mayor of Birmingham

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Thomas V. Barnes “unknown” Mayor of Gary, Indiana

Marion Barry Beta XiMayor of Washington, D.C.; first Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com-mittee (SNCC)

Ted Berry Alpha AlphaFirst Black Mayor of Cincinnati; Board member of the NAACP

Byron Brown Delta EpsilonSenator of New York; First Black Mayor of Buffalo

Willie Brown Xi RhoFirst Black Mayor of San Francisco; Speaker of the California State Assembly

David Dinkins Beta First Black Mayor of New York City

Maynard Jackson Alpha Rho First Black and 3-term Mayor of Atlanta

Harvey Johnson, Jr. Beta Omicron First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

Kwame Kilpatrick Beta Nu Mayor of Detroit

Marc Morial PsiLouisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Or-leans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League

Ernest Nathan Morial Beta TauLouisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; namesake of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans

Rudolph McCollum Beta Mayor of Richmond

James McGee Xi First Black Mayor of Dayton

Norm Rice Alpha XiFirst and only African-American Mayor of Seatttle

Eugene Sawyer Beta Upsilon Mayor of Chicago

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Thomas V. Barnes “unknown” Mayor of Gary, Indiana

Marion Barry Beta XiMayor of Washington, D.C.; first Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com-mittee (SNCC)

Ted Berry Alpha AlphaFirst Black Mayor of Cincinnati; Board member of the NAACP

Byron Brown Delta EpsilonSenator of New York; First Black Mayor of Buffalo

Willie Brown Xi RhoFirst Black Mayor of San Francisco; Speaker of the California State Assembly

David Dinkins Beta First Black Mayor of New York City

Maynard Jackson Alpha Rho First Black and 3-term Mayor of Atlanta

Harvey Johnson, Jr. Beta Omicron First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

Kwame Kilpatrick Beta Nu Mayor of Detroit


Ernest Nathan Morial Beta TauLouisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; namesake of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans

Rudolph McCollum Beta Mayor of Richmond

James McGee Xi First Black Mayor of Dayton

Norm Rice Alpha XiFirst and only African-American Mayor of Seatttle

Eugene Sawyer Beta Upsilon Mayor of Chicago

Kurt Schmoke Delta LambdaFirst Black Mayor of Baltimore; Rhodes Scholar

Lionel Wilson Alpha Epsilon First Black Mayor of Oakland

JUDGES/LAWYERS

Robert Benham Eta LambdaChief Justice of the Supreme Court of Geor-gia

Joe Brown Kappa Eta

Host of the syndicated show Judge Joe Brown; Presided over James Earl Ray’s last appeal for Ray's conviction for the assassina-tion of Martin Luther King, Jr.;

Robert L. Carter Nu

Pivotal role in Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and NAACP v. Alabama; U.S. District Court Judge; 2004 Spingarn Medal recipient


Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Ed-ucation; 3rd Director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Presi-dent of North Carolina Central University

Christopher Darden Epsilon MuProsecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simp-son

Milton C. Davis Gamma Phi

Assistant Attorney General of the state of Alabama who researched and wrote opin-ions which led Governor George Wallace to pardon Clarence Norris, the last known surviving defendant in international cause célèbre case of the Scottsboro Boys; 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Harry T. Edwards Theta Zeta LambdaJustice for the United States Court of Ap-peals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Delta Zeta Lambda

Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Represen-tatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University

Charles Hamilton Houston Sigma

chief architect of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategy for racial equality in disman-tling the Jim Crow laws; First Black Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1950 Spingarn Medal recipient

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Harry E. Johnson Beta Tau

President of the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundrais-ing, design, and construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial; 31st Gen-eral President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Damon Keith Alpha Zeta

Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan who famously ruled in United States v. Sinclair (upheld in United States v. U.S. District Court) that President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of il-legal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized without first obtaining a search warrant; 1974 Spingarn Medal recipient

Belford Lawson, Jr. Epsilon

Co-founder of New Negro Alliance; succes-fully argued in United States Supreme Court cases styled New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. to safeguard the right to boycott, and Henderson v. United States that abol-ished segregation in railroad dining cars; 16th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Greg Mathis Gamma Lambda Host of television series Judge Mathis

Jawn Sandifer Alpha Omicron

Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the National As-sociation for the Advancement of Colored People who successfully argued Henderson v. United States

Arthur Shores Alpha Beta

Attorney in Lucy v. Adams which prevented the University of Alabama from denying ad-mission to applicants solely on account of race or color.

A.P. Tureaud BetaAttorney in Garner v. Louisiana which legal-ized sit-in protests at segregated private businesses and restaurants.

Horace Ward Alpha RhoSenator of Georgia; first African American to serve on the federal bench in Georgia.

U.S. POLITICAL & LEGAL FIGURES

William T. Andrews “unknown” New York State Assembly

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JOURNALSIM/MEDIA

Harry E. Johnson Beta Tau

President of the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundrais-ing, design, and construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial; 31st Gen-eral President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Damon Keith Alpha Zeta

Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan who famously ruled in United States v. Sinclair (upheld in United States v. U.S. District Court) that President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of il-legal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized without first obtaining a search warrant; 1974 Spingarn Medal recipient

Belford Lawson, Jr. Epsilon

Co-founder of New Negro Alliance; succes-fully argued in United States Supreme Court cases styled New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. to safeguard the right to boycott, and Henderson v. United States that abol-ished segregation in railroad dining cars; 16th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

Greg Mathis Gamma Lambda Host of television series Judge Mathis


Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the National As-sociation for the Advancement of Colored People who successfully argued Henderson v. United States

Arthur Shores Alpha Beta

Attorney in Lucy v. Adams which prevented the University of Alabama from denying ad-mission to applicants solely on account of race or color.

A.P. Tureaud BetaAttorney in Garner v. Louisiana which legal-ized sit-in protests at segregated private businesses and restaurants.

Horace Ward Alpha RhoSenator of Georgia; first African American to serve on the federal bench in Georgia.

U.S. POLITICAL & LEGAL FIGURES

William T. Andrews “unknown” New York State Assembly

Daniel T. Blue, Jr. Gamma Beta

North Carolina House of Representatives; Speaker of the North Carolina House of Rep-resentatives; 2002 Democratic candidate for the United States Senate

Roland Burris Beta Eta First Black Illinois Attorney General

Al Edwards “unknown”Texas House of Representatives; considered the father of the Juneteenth Holiday

Isiah Leggett Beta SigmaCounty Executive; Montgomery County, MD, first and only African-American elected to the county council

Carl McCall Theta ZetaLegislator of New York; Comptroller of New York; 2002 Democratic candidate for Gover-nor of New York

I. Ray Miller Alpha Rho LambdaOhio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate

William Byron Rumford Gamma Phi Lambda California State Legislature

Vernon Sykes, PhD Phi Ohio Senate

Albert Vann Alpha Xi Lambda New York State Assembly

Herb Wesson NuCalifornia State Assembly; Speaker of the California State Assembly

Tyrone Yates Alpha Alpha Ohio House of Representatives

OFFICIALS OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Norman Washington Manley Beta Beta Lambda5th Prime Minister of Jamaica, Founder of Ja-maica's People's National Party, 1914 Rhodes Scholar

Edward RichardsEpsilon Theta Lambda

First Premier of Bermuda

JOURNALISM/MEDIA

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LITERATURE

Ron Allen Psi News correspondent for NBC and ABC

Tony Brown Alpha Upsilon

Commentator of the syndicated television show; Tony Brown's Journal; founding dean of Howard University's School of Communica-tion

Malvin Russell Goode OmicronFirst Black news correspondent for ABC as a United Nations reporter

Jay Harris Nu ThetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS

Roland S. Martin Pi OmicronEditor of the Chicago Defender, radio talk show host; contributor to CNN

Stuart Scott Mu Zeta Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter

Chuck Stone “unknown”Speechwriter for Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; First president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Tuskegee Airman

Stan Verrett BetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS

LITERATURE

Countee Cullen Eta Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Eric Jerome Dickey Kappa Eta Author

E. Lynn Harris Kappa Kappa Author, playwright

Chester Himes KappaAuthor whose works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels

Lawrence Ross Alpha EpsilonAuthor of The Divine Nine: The History of Af-rican American Fraternities and Sororities

Carl Weber Beta Gamma Author

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MILITARY SERVICE / RELIGION

Ron Allen Psi News correspondent for NBC and ABC

Tony Brown Alpha Upsilon

Commentator of the syndicated television show; Tony Brown's Journal; founding dean of Howard University's School of Communica-tion

Malvin Russell Goode OmicronFirst Black news correspondent for ABC as a United Nations reporter

Jay Harris Nu ThetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS

Roland S. Martin Pi OmicronEditor of the Chicago Defender, radio talk show host; contributor to CNN

Stuart Scott Mu Zeta Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter

Chuck Stone “unknown”Speechwriter for Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; First president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Tuskegee Airman

Stan Verrett BetaSportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS

LITERATURE

Countee Cullen Eta Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Eric Jerome Dickey Kappa Eta Author

E. Lynn Harris Kappa Kappa Author, playwright

Chester Himes KappaAuthor whose works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels

Lawrence Ross Alpha EpsilonAuthor of The Divine Nine: The History of Af-rican American Fraternities and Sororities

Carl Weber Beta Gamma Author

MILITARY SERVICE

Wesley A. Brown “unknown”Lieutenant Commander; First Black graduate from United States Naval Academy

Roscoe Cartwright “unknown” General, United States Army

Victor Daly Alpha French Croix de Guerre recipient

Fred Gordon Mu Beta LambdaBrigadier General; First African-American First Captain of the West Point Academy

Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. GammaFirst African American Admiral, United States Navy; First African American to command a U.S. fleet.

Benjamin Thurman Hacker Epsilon Mu Lambda Major General, United States Army

Edward Honor Beta Sigma Rear Admiral, United States Navy

James McCall “unknown”Major General Chief in the Pentagon Budget Office

Winston E. Scott Alpha Phi Lambda Astronaut, Johnson Space Center

Johnnie E. Wilson “unknown” Four Star General, United States Army

RELIGION

John Hurst Adams “unknown” President of Congress of Black Churches

Vinton R. Anderson “unknown”92nd Bishop of African Methodist Episco-pal Church; President of World Council of Churches

Tyrone Crider “unknown” National Director of Operation PUSH

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SCIENCE

Harold Davis “unknown” President of American Baptist Churches

Cain Hope Felder Beta

First national director of the United Method-ist Black Caucus; Professor of Theology at Howard University and Princeton University; Editor of The African American Jubilee Bible

T. J. Jemison Beta Upsilon

Co-founder of the Southern Christian Lead-ership Conference (SCLC); President of National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953

E. Edward Jones “unknown”President of National Baptist Convention, America

Martin Luther King, Jr. Sigma

1962 Nobel Peace Prize; Civil rights activist; Co-founder of the Southern Christian Lead-ership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established in honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall

Alfred J. Smith “unknown”President of Progressive National Baptist Convention

SCIENCE


James Comer Gamma Eta

Prominent child psychiatrist; Founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine

Lloyd Hall Alpha Mu

Chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. Author of 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries

LaSalle Leffalle KappaPresident of American College of Surgeons; President of American Cancer Society

Garrett A. Morgan Delta Alpha Lambda

Inventor who originated a respiratory protec-tive hood (similar to the modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; pat-ented a type of traffic light signal

Earl W. Renfroe “unknown”

Orthodontist, for many years, he was ac-knowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after Renfroe

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SERVICE/SOCIAL REFORM

Harold Davis “unknown” President of American Baptist Churches

Cain Hope Felder Beta

First national director of the United Method-ist Black Caucus; Professor of Theology at Howard University and Princeton University; Editor of The African American Jubilee Bible


Co-founder of the Southern Christian Lead-ership Conference (SCLC); President of National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953

E. Edward Jones “unknown”President of National Baptist Convention, America



Alfred J. Smith “unknown”President of Progressive National Baptist Convention

SCIENCE


James Comer Gamma Eta

Prominent child psychiatrist; Founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine

Lloyd Hall Alpha Mu

Chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. Author of 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries

LaSalle Leffalle KappaPresident of American College of Surgeons; President of American Cancer Society

Garrett A. Morgan Delta Alpha Lambda

Inventor who originated a respiratory protec-tive hood (similar to the modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; pat-ented a type of traffic light signal

Earl W. Renfroe “unknown”

Orthodontist, for many years, he was ac-knowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after Renfroe

Louis Wade Sullivan Alpha RhoSecretary of Health and Human Services; CO-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine

Levi Watkins, Jr. Beta Omicron

Chief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Performed the world’s first human implantation of the automatic im-plantable defibrillator; First African-American medical student at Vanderbilt University

SERVICE/SOCIAL

REFORM


Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Ed-ucation; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Presi-dent of North Carolina Central University

Frederick Douglass OmegaUnited States Ambassador to Haiti; Anti-slav-ery activist

W.E.B. Du Bois Epsilon

Co-founder of Niagara Movement and NAACP; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis; First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University; 1920 Spingarn Medal recipient

(Honorary)

Henry Edwards Beta World-famous sociologist

E. Franklin Frazier BetaFirst Black President of the American So-ciological Association; Sociologist on race relations;

Lloyd L. Gaines Alpha PsiCentral figure of one of the most important cases in the U.S. civil rights movement–Su-preme Court case styled Gaines v. Canada

Lester Granger Theta Zeta3rd Executive Secretary of the National Urban League

Dick Gregory Beta Eta1968 Presidential candidate; comedian, social activist, writer

George Haynes “unknown”First President of the National Urban League; First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Columbia University

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Co-founder of the Southern Christian Lead-ership Conference; President of the National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953


Lyman T. Johnson GammaPlaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949


Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 2nd Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roo-sevelt’s Black Cabinet





Jesse E. Moorland Beta

Co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center


Floyd McKissick “unknown”2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality; Founder of Soul City

Hugh Bernard Price “unknown” 7th President of the National Urban League


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SPORTS




Co-founder of the Southern Christian Lead-ership Conference; President of the National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953


Lyman T. Johnson GammaPlaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949


Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 2nd Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roo-sevelt’s Black Cabinet





Jesse E. Moorland Beta

Co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center


Floyd McKissick “unknown”2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality; Founder of Soul City

Hugh Bernard Price “unknown” 7th President of the National Urban League



Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the National As-sociation for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who successfully argued Henderson v. United States

Herman Sweatt Alpha Sigma

Plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case styled Sweatt v. Painter that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson

Channing Heggie Tobias “unknown”Chairman of the NAACP, Director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal recipient

Wyatt Tee Walker GammaCo-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Civil and human rights activist

Alfred Bitini Xuma “unknown” President of the African National Congress

Max Yergan “unknown”

2nd President of the National Negro Con-gress; Co-founder of the International Council on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal re-cipient

Whitney Young Beta Mu

4th President of the National Urban League; 1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; namesake of the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge

SPORTS

OLYMPICS

Dave Albritton Kappa1936 Olympian, high jump; inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1980

Don Barksdale Gamma Xi1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team; NBA player

Walt Bellamy "unknown" 1960 Olympian NBA player

Quinn Buckner Gamma Eta 1976 Olympian; NBA player

Sayon Cooper Delta Xi 2000 Olympian, Track and Field

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SPORTS

Ralph Metcalfe Nu XiRepresentative from Illinois; 1932 and 1936 Olympian

Jesse Owens Kappa

1936 Olympian in Track and Field, Associ-ated Press Athlete of the Year, 1936; 1976 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1990 Con-gressional Gold Medal recipient; namesake of the Jesse Owen Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University

Mike Powell Omicron Eta 1988 and 1992 Olympian, long jump

Eddie Tolan Epsilon 1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 metres

Lenny Wilkens Zeta Pi LambdaNBA player and coach; 1996 Olympian, Bas-ketball Coach

John Woodruff Omicron 1936 Olympian in Track and Field

Kevin Young Gamma Xi 1988 and 1992 Olympian, Track and field

BASKETBALL

Nate Archibald Theta Delta Lambda National Basketball Association (NBA) player

Junior Bridgeman Delta Chi Lambda NBA player

John O. Brown “unknown” Basketball coach for Dillard University

Quinn Buckner Gamma Eta NBA player and coach

Todd Day Kappa Kappa NBA player, WASL player of Lebanon

Wayne Embry Delta UpsilonNBA player and General Manager; Basketball Hall of Fame

Clyde Fletcher Kappa Kappa NBA player, Arkansas Razorbacks

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SPORTS

Ralph Metcalfe Nu XiRepresentative from Illinois; 1932 and 1936 Olympian

Jesse Owens Kappa

1936 Olympian in Track and Field, Associ-ated Press Athlete of the Year, 1936; 1976 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1990 Con-gressional Gold Medal recipient; namesake of the Jesse Owen Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University

Mike Powell Omicron Eta 1988 and 1992 Olympian, long jump

Eddie Tolan Epsilon 1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 metres

Lenny Wilkens Zeta Pi LambdaNBA player and coach; 1996 Olympian, Bas-ketball Coach

John Woodruff Omicron 1936 Olympian in Track and Field

Kevin Young Gamma Xi 1988 and 1992 Olympian, Track and field

BASKETBALL

Nate Archibald Theta Delta Lambda National Basketball Association (NBA) player

Junior Bridgeman Delta Chi Lambda NBA player

John O. Brown “unknown” Basketball coach for Dillard University

Quinn Buckner Gamma Eta NBA player and coach

Todd Day Kappa Kappa NBA player, WASL player of Lebanon

Wayne Embry Delta UpsilonNBA player and General Manager; Basketball Hall of Fame

Clyde Fletcher Kappa Kappa NBA player, Arkansas Razorbacks

Chris Mills Eta Epsilon Omega NBA player

Bobby Phills Beta SigmaNBA player, Continental Basketball Associa-tion player

Wes Unseld ”unknown” NBA player and coach

John "Hot Rod" Williams Rho Iota NBA player

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Bobby Bell MuNational Football League (NFL) player, Pro Football Hall of Fame

Wes Chandler Theta Sigma NFL player, Four time Pro Bowl player

Michael Clayton Nu Psi NFL player

Greg Coleman Beta NuNFL player, First African American punter in the NFL

Donald Driver Delta Kappa NFL player

Carl Eller Mu NFL player, 2004 Pro Football Hall of Fame

Mel Farr, Jr. Gamma Xi NFL player

Mike Farr Gamma Xi NFL player

Charles Fisher Pi Mu NFL player

Barry Foster “unknown” NFL player

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SPORTS

Derrick Gaffney Theta Sigma NFL player

Nesby Glasgow Alpha Xi NFL player

Barrett Green Pi Mu NFL player

Sammy Green Theta Sigma NFL player

Rosey Grier Gamma Nu

NFL player; Singer; Actor, best known for The Thing with Two Heads; helped apprehend Sirhan Sirhan in the immediate aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination

Charles Haley Xi Delta NFL player, Five time Pro Bowl player

Michael Jackson Mu Xi NFL player

Trezelle Jenkins Epsilon NFL player

Ron Johnson "unknown"NFL player, Chairman of the National Football Foundation

Dhani Jones Epsilon NFL player

Steve Jordan Alpha Gamma NFL player

Carnell Lake Gamma Xi NFL player

Henry Lawrence Beta Nu NFL player

Mark Lee Alpha Xi NFL player

Mike Merriweather Nu Chi NFL player, Three-time Pro Bowl player

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SPORTS

Bill Munsey Mu NFL player

Adrian Murrell Pi Mu NFL player

Vincent Newsome Alpha XiNFL player, (current assistant director of pro personnel for Baltimore Ravens)

Roman Oben ”unknown” NFL player

Brig Owens Alpha Alpha NFL player

Michael Pittman Epsilon Beta NFL player

Fritz Pollard Alpha GammaOne of the first two Black players in the NFL in 1920; first Black head coach in the NFL; 2005 Pro Football Hall of Fame

Marcus Pollard Epsilon Kappa NFL player

Jethro Pugh Beta Zeta NFL player

Ken Riley Beta Nu NFL player


Eddie Robinson Beta Iota Lambda

Head of Grambling State University football program for 56 years, established himself as the winningest coach in college football his-tory, becoming the first coach to record 400 wins, and recorded 408 total career wins

Art Shell Gamma Chi LambdaNFL player, Four-time Pro Bowl player; Pro Football Hall of Fame; Second Black head coach in the NFL

Max Starks Theta Sigma NFL player

Sandy Stephens MuNFL player; First African American All-Ameri-can Quarterback

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OTHER ATHLETICS / OTHER ALPHAS

Lemuel Stinson Eta Upsilon NFL player

John Thornton Pi Mu NFL player

Gene Upshaw Gamma Chi LambdaAFL player; 1987 Pro Football Hall of Fame; President of National Football League Players Association (NFLPA)

Reggie Williams Theta Zeta NFL player

Claudius Wright “unknown” NFL player

Eric Wright Zeta Alpha NFL player, Two-time Pro Bowl player

Jason Wright Alpha Mu NFL player

OTHER ATHLETICS

Gerald Harris PiProfessional NHB and mixed martial arts fighter. FCF, TFC, and International Fight League

OTHER ALPHAS

Raymond Cannon MuFirst Editor of The Sphinx, the official pub-lication of Alpha Phi Alpha; 12th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha

George Fletcher Alpha First honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha

(Honorary)

Henry MintonZeta Omicron Lambda

Co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity; co-founder of Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia; 1891 Valedictorian of Phillips Exeter Academy

Hilyard Robinson “unknown”Architect, Designed buildings for Howard University, Hampton University and Langston Terrace Dwellings in Washington, D.C.

Ferdinand Rousserve SigmaDesigner of the second fraternity shield that is currently used by Alpha Phi Alpha

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