Famous Alpha Brothers

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
Sunday, October 8, 2006 8:03 PM, businessman
Franklin Williams - Phelps-Stokes Fund

Education/Scholarship
Henry Ponder - Educator, General President of Alpha
James Check - Howard University
Dr. Ronald J. Temple - Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
John Hope Franklin - Historian
E. Franklin Frazier - Sociologist
Dennis Kimbro - Author
Fredrick Patterson - Founder, UNCF
Cornell West - Author

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

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
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

Business
Johnson H. Johnson - Entrepreneur
Doug Bush - Entrepreneur

Entertainment
Duke Ellington - Jazz musician
Quincy Jones - Producer, 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