Bro. Robert Abbot – Founder of the Chicago Defender
Bro. Richard Allen – Founder/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church
Bro. Alexander T. Augusta – First African-American to head a hospital in the U.S.
Bro. Marion Barry – Former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Bro. William “Count” Basie – Orchestra leader/composer
Bro. James J.G. Bias – Founder of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee
Bro. Henry Blair – First Black to receive a U.S. patent
Bro. James Herbert “Eubie” Blake – Composer/Pianist
Bro. Edward Bouchet – First Black to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society
Bro. William Wells Brown – First Black to publish a novel
Bro. Nathaniel “Nat King” Cole – Singer
Bro. Ossie Davis – Actor/Director/Playwrite
Bro. Martin R. Delany – First Black to matriculate from Harvard Medical School/First Black Major in the U.S. Army
Bro. W.E.B. DuBois – Educator/author/historian
Bro. Alexander Dumas – Author
Bro. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington – Orchestra leader/composer
Bro. Medgar Wiley Evers – Civil Rights leader
Bro. James Forten – Abolitionist/manufacturer
Bro. Timothy Thomas Fortune – Journalist
Bro. Larry Gibson – Author, Civil Rights Advocate, Attorney
Bro. Alex Haley – Author
Bro. William C. Handy – Composer
Bro. Matthew Henson – Explorer
Bro. Benjamin L. Hooks – Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P.
Bro. Jesse Jackson – Founder of the Rainbow Coalition and Operation Push
Bro. Maynard Jackson – First black Mayor of Atlanta
Bro. John H. Johnson – Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines
Bro. Jack Johnson – First Black heavyweight boxing champion in U.S.
Bro. Absalom Jones – First Black Priest in the Episcopal Church in U.S.
Bro. Dr. Ernest Everett Just – One of the founders of Omega Psi Phi and renowned zoologist
Bro. Don King – Boxing promoter
Bro. Lewis Howard Latimer – Inventor of the carbon filament for light
Bro. Thurgood Marshall – Former Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Bro. Amos T. Hall Former Judge and Lawyer for the NACCP Bro. Benjamin E. Mays – Former President of Morehouse College
Bro. Leon M’Ba – First President of the Republic of Gabon
Bro. Kweisi Mfume – Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P., United States Congressman
Bro. Richard Pryor – Comedian/Actor
Bro. Alexander Pushkin – Poet/Novelist/Play write
Bro. A. Philip Randolph – Founder and First President of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Bro. Charles Rangel – U.S. Congressman
Bro. Joseph Jenkins Robert s -First President of the Republic of Liberia
Bro. “Sugar” Ray Robinson – Former mid/light heavyweight boxing champion
Bro. Arthur A. Schomburg – Historian/Author
Rev. Bro. Al Sharpton – Civil Rights Advocate
Bro. Carl B. Stokes – First Black Mayor of Cleveland, OH
Bro. Louis Stokes – Former U.S. Congressman
Bro. David Walker – Author of “David Walker’s Appeal
Bro. Booker T. Washington – Educator and Fonder of the Tuskegee University/Institute
Bro. Daniel Hale Williams – First surgeon to perform open heart surgery
Bro. Bert Williams – Actor/Comedian
Bro. Granville T. Woods – Inventor
Bro. Andrew Young – Former Mayor of Atlanta and U.N. Ambassador
Bro. Lawrence Douglass Wilder – The First Black elected Governor in this country from Virginia.
Bro. Dr. Charles H. Wesley – Prince Hall Historian/Author /Ordained A.M.E Minister/ Educator
Bro. Joseph A. Walkes, Jr – Historian/Author of Black Square & Compass / Prince Hall Masonic Quiz Book/ History Of The Shrine/History Of The United Supreme Council A.A.S.R.