| Activists:
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil rights activist Julius L. Chambers - NAACP Legal Defense Fund Lester 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 - Cincinatti Bengals Quinn Buckner - Former NBA Player and Coach Wes Unseld - Former NBA Coach
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