Activists:

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Activist
• Julius L. Chambers: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Lester Granger: National Urban League
• 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
• Thomas W. Cole, Jr.: President, Clark-Atlanta University
• William B. DeLauder: President, Delaware St. University
• John Hope Franklin: Historian
• E. Franklin Frazier: Sociologist
• Dennis Kimbro: Author
• Frederick Patterson: Founder, UNCF
• Dr. Ronald J. Temple: Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
• Cornell West: Author
• Andrew Zawacki: Rhodes Scholar, Author
• Dr. Raymond W. Cannon: 1st Edition, Sphinx Magazine
• Norm Francis: President, Xavier University

Military:

• Roscoe Cartwright: General, AUS
• Samuel Gravel: Admiral, USN
• Edward Honor: Major General, AUS
• Fred A. Gorden: Brigadere General
• Samuel Gravely: Admiral
• Benjamin Hacker: Rear Admiral
• Edward Honor: Major General
• James McCall: Major General
• Winston Scott: Commander

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

Government/Politics:

• Dennis Archer: Mayor of Detroit
• Richard Arrington: Mayor of Birmingham
• Willie Brown: Mayor of San Francisco
• David Dinkins: Former Mayor of New York
• Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver: Mayor of Kansas City
• Chaka Fattah: Congressman, Pennsylvania
• Ernest Finney: South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
• Earl Hilliard: Congressman, Alabama (7th District)
• Maynard Jackson: Former Mayor of Atlanta
• Thurgood Marshall: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Earnest "Dutch" Morial: 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans
• Marc Morial: Mayor of New Orleans
• Charles Rangel: Congressman, New York (15th District)
• Robert C. Scott: Congressman, Virginia (3rd District)
• Andrew Young: Former Mayor of Atlanta

Business:

• Thomas J. Burrell: CEO, Burrell Advertising
• W. Melvin Brown: CEO, American Development Corp.
• John H. Johnson: Entrepreneur
• Delano Lewis: President, National Public Radio
• Henry Parks: Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
• Joshua Smith: CEO, Maxima Corporation

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
• Sidney Poitier: Academy Award Winning Actor

Sports:

• Quinn Buckner: Former NBA Player and Coach
• Wes Chandler: Former NFL Player
• Todd Day: NBA Player
• Rosie Greer: Former NFL Player
• Charles Haley: NFL Player
• Michael Jackson: NFL Player
• Carnell Lake: NFL Player
• Jesse Owens: Olympic Gold Medalist
• Fritz Pollard: 1st Black Head Coach in the NFL
• Mike Powell: Track Star
• Eddie Robinson: Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History
• Jackie Robinson: First Black Man in Major League Baseball
• Art Shell: Former NFL Player and Coach
• Wes Unseld: Former NBA Player and Coach
• Gene Upshaw: President of the NFL Players Association
• Lenny Wilkens: Winningest Coach in NBA History
• John "Hot Rod" Williams: Former NBA Player
• Reggie Williams: Cincinnati Bengals