A Partial Listing Of Prominent Alphas
This section lists some of the prominent Alphas in several categories.
Please note that this listing IS NOT totally inclusive, by any means.
The categories are as follows:
Civic Leaders
- Julius L. Chambers (NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
- W.E.B. DuBois (Philosopher)
- Franklin Williams (Phelps-Stokes Fund)
- Lester Granger (National Urban League)
- Dick Gregory (Activist)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (Activist)
- Paul Robeson (Activist/Actor/Athlete)
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Government
- Marion Barry (Mayor of Washington, D.C)
- David Dinkins (Former Mayor of New York City)
- Ernest Finney (South Carolina Supreme Court Justice)
- Maynard Jackson (Former Mayor of Atlanta, GA)
- Thurgood Marshall (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
- Andrew Young (Former Mayor of Atlanta, GA)
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Media Figures
- Darryl Bell ("A Different World")
- Tony Brown (Journalist/Producer)
- Eugene Jackson (National Black Network)
- John H. Johnson (Johnson Publications)
- Quincy Jones (Musician/Producer)
- Chuck Stone (Philadelphia Daily News)
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Sports Figure
- Wes Chandler (San Diego Chargers)
- Charles Halley (Dallas Cowboys)
- Jesse Owens (Olympic Star)
- Eddie Robinson (Grambling State University)
- Art Shell (Former Head Coach - Raiders)
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Education/Scholarship
- James Check (Howard University)
- John Hope Franklin (Historian)
- E. Franklin Frazier (Sociologist)
- Fredrick Patterson (Founder, UNCF)
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Military
- Roscoe Cartwright (General, AUS)
- Samuel Gravely (Admiral, USN)
- Edward Honor (Major General, AUS)
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Science/Medicine
- James Comer (Psychologist)
- Garrett Morgan (Inventor- Traffic Signal)
- Louis Sullivan (Secretary of Health and Education)
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