Prominent Members of Alpha
(partial listing) *Omega Chapter (deceased) |
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The Honorable Bro.
Edward William Brooke
U.S. Senator | Bro. Quinn Buckner
NBA Superstar | Bro. Raymond W.
Cannon*
Former General President
& First Editor to The Sphinx |
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The Honorable Bro.
Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver
Former Mayor, Kansas City | The Honorable Bro.
David Dinkins
Former Mayor, New York City | Rear Admiral Bro.
Benjamin Hacker
(Retired) United States Navy |
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Bro. Charles Haley
NFL Superstar | Bro. John H. Johnson*
Founder & Publisher,
Ebony & Jet Magazines | The Honorable Bro.
Samuel Pierce*
Former US Secretary
of Housing & Urban
Development |
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Bro. Mike Powell
Olympic Champion | Bro. Tony Brown
Host, Tony Brown’s
Journal (PBS) | Bro. Gene Upshaw*
President, NFL Player’s
Union |
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The Honorable Bro.
Willie Brown
Mayor, San Francisco | The Honorable Bro.
Andrew Young
Former Mayor, Atlanta
Former U.S. Ambassador
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Activists |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.*
Civil Rights Activist | Julius L. Chambers
NAACP Legal Defense Fund | Lester Granger
National Urban League |
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Frederick Douglass*
Anti-Slavery Activist | W.E.B. Dubois*
Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.*
Civil Rights Activist |
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Thurgood Marshall*
Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice | Paul Robeson*
Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player | Dick Gregory
Activist |
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William Gray
United Negro College Fund, Businessman | Franklin Williams
Phelps-Stokes Fund | Theodore M. Berry*
Civil Rights Activist,
First Black Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
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Education/Scholarship |
James Check
Howard University | Thomas W. Cole, Jr.*
President, Clark-Atlanta University | William B. DeLauder
President, Delaware St. University |
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John Hope Franklin*
Historian | E. Franklin Frazier*
Sociologist | Dennis Kimbro
Author |
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Frederick Patterson*
Founder, UNCF | Dr. Ronald J. Temple
Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago | Cornel West
Author |
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Andrew Zawacki
Rhodes Scholar, Author | | Norm Francis
President, Xavier University |
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Military |
Roscoe Cartwright
General, AUS | Samuel Gravely
Admiral, USN | |
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Fred A. Gorden
Brigadier General | Benjamin Hacker
Rear Admiral | |
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Edward Honor*
Lieutenant General, Army, Retired | James McCall
Major General | |
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Science/Medicine |
Dr. Lessall D. Leffall
President, American College of Surgeons | James Comer
Psychologist | Garrett Morgan*
Inventor, Traffic Signal |
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Louis Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Education | Winston Scott
Navy Commander, Astronaut NASA | |
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Government/Politics |
Dennis Archer
Former Mayor Detroit | Richard Arrington
Former Mayor of Birmingham | Edward William Brooke
U.S. Senator |
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Willie Brown
Former Mayor of San Francisco | Roland W. Burris
U.S. Senator | Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver
Former Mayor of Kansas City |
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David Dinkins
Former Mayor of New York | Chaka Fattah
Congressman, Pennsylvania | Ernest Finney
South Carolina Supreme Court Justice |
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Earl Hilliard
Former Congressman, Alabama (7th District) | Maynard Jackson
Former Mayor of Atlanta | Kwame Kilpatrick
Former Mayor of Detroit |
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Thurgood Marshall*
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice | Earnest “Dutch” Morial*
1st Black Mayor of New Orleans | Marc Morial
Former Mayor of New Orleans |
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Charles Rangel
Congressman, New York (15th District) | Robert C. Scott
Congressman, Virginia (3rd District) | Andrew Young
Former Mayor of Atlanta |
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Business |
Thomas J. Burrell
CEO, Burrell Advertising | W. Melvin Brown
CEO, American Development Corp. | John H. Johnson*
Entrepreneur |
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Delano Lewis
President, National Public Radio | Henry Parks
Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc. | Joshua Smith
CEO, Maxima Corporation |
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Entertainment |
Daryl Bell
Actor | Tony Brown
Journalist/Producer | Countee Cullen
Poet |
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Duke Ellington*
Jazz Musician | Donny Hathaway*
Musician | Eugene Jackson
National Black Network |
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Stuart Scott
ESPN Anchorman | Chuck Stone
Philadelphia Daily News | Keenan Ivory Wayans
Comedian, Producer |
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Sports |
Quinn Buckner
Former NBA Player and Coach | Wes Chandler
Former NFL Player | Todd Day
NBA Player |
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Rosie Greer
Former NFL Player | Charles Haley
NFL Player | Michael Jackson
NFL PLayer |
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Carnell Lake
NFL Player | Jesse Owens*
Olympic Gold Medalist | Fritz Pollard*
1st Black Head Coach in the NFL |
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Mike Powell
Track Star | Eddie Robinson*
Winningest Football Coach in NCAA History | Art Shell
NFL Head Coach and Former NFL Player |
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Wes Unseld
Former NBA Player and Coach | Gene Upshaw*
President of the NFL Players Association | Lenny Wilkens
Winningest Coach in NBA History |
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John “Hot Rod” Williams
Former NBA Player | Reggie Williams
Cincinnati Bengals | |
