Bro. Garrett A. Morgan, Sr.
Inventor traffic light and gas mask
Bro. Robert Abbot
Founder of the Chicago Defender
Bro. Richard Allen
Founder/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church
Bro. Dennis Archer
Former Mayor of the City of Detroit
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/Playwright
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. 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 and Renowned zoologist
Bro. Kwame Kilpatrick
Former Mayor of the City of Detroit
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. Benjamin E. Mays
Former President of Morehouse College
Bro. Leon M’Ba
First President of the Republic of Gabon
Bro. Kweisi Mfume
Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P.
Bro. Richard Pryor
Comedian/Actor
Bro. Alexander Pushkin
Poet/Novelist/Playwright
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 Roberts
First President of the Republic of Liberia
Bro. “Sugar” Ray Robinson
Former mid/light heavyweight boxing champion
Bro. Arthur A. Schomburg
Historian/Author
Bro. Rev. 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
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.