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ALPHA PHI ALPHA
NOTABLE ALPHAS
FRATERNITY MISSION STATEMENT
ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY DEVELOPS LEADERS, PROMOTES
BROTHERHOOD AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, WHILE PROVIDING
SERVICE AND ADVOCACY FOR OUR COMMUNITIES.
FRATERNITY VISION STATEMENT
The objectives of this Fraternity shall be: to stimulate the ambition
of its members; to prepare them for the greatest usefulness in
the causes of humanity, freedom, and dignity of the individual; to
encourage the highest and noblest form of manhood; and to aid
down-trodden humanity in its efforts to achieve higher social,
economic and intellectual status.
The first two objectives- (1) to stimulate the ambition of its members
and (2) to prepare them for the greatest usefulness in the cause of
humanity, freedom, and dignity of the individual-serve as the basis
for the establishment of Alpha University.
Table Of Contents
Table of Contents
THE JEWELS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
PROFESSORS & RESEARCHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
RHODES SCHOLARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
ENTERTAINMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
MUSIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
FILM, TELEVISION, & THEATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
GOVERNMENT/LAW/PUBLIC POLICY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
VICE PRESIDENTS/SUPREME COURT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
CABINET & CABINET LEVEL RANKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
GOVERNORS & LT. GOVERNORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
AMBASSADORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MAYORS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
JUDGES/LAWYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
U.S. POLITICAL & LEGAL FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
OFFICIALS OUTSIDE THE U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
JOURNALISM/MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
LITERATURE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
MILITARY SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
RELIGION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SCIENCE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24
SERVICE/SOCIAL REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SPORTS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
OLYMPICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
BASKETBALL
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
OTHER ATHLETICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
OTHER ALPHAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
NOTABLE ALPHAS
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ALPHA PHI ALPHA ADVISOR HANDBOOK
THE FOUNDERS
CHAPTER
NOTABILITY
Henry A. Callis
Alpha
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 6th
General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Charles H. Chapman
Alpha
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity;
Professor of Agriculture at FAMU
Eugene K. Jones
Alpha
First Executive Director of the National Urban
League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet
George B. Kelley
Alpha
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Nathaniel A. Murray
Alpha
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Robert H. Ogle
Alpha
professional staff member to the Committee
on Appropriations.
Alpha
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; Architect,
whose most famous commission was probably the mansion of Harlem millionairess
Madam C.J. Walker
THE SEVEN JEWELS
NAME
THE JEWELS
Vertner W. Tandy
NOTABLE ALPHAS
5
ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS
6
Herman Branson
Beta Gamma
President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha
helix; Sickle cell physicist
James P. Brawley
“unknown”
President of Clark College
Calvin Burnett
Delta Lambda
President of Coppin State University
Julius Chambers
Gamma Beta
Attorney who argued in the Supreme Court
case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund; President of North Carolina Central
University
James Cheek
Beta Rho
President of Howard University
Thomas W. Cole, Jr.
Alpha Sigma
First President of Clark Atlanta University,
President of West Virginia State University,
Interim Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas W. Cole, Sr.
Alpha Sigma
President of Wiley College; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Matthew Davage
Alpha Phi
President of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta
University
William B. Delauder
Beta Alpha
President of Delaware State University
James Douglas
Delta Theta
First President of Texas Southern University
Floyd H. Flake
Zeta Gamma
Lambda
Representative from Illinois; President of Wilberforce University
Ernest A. Finney, Jr.
Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme
Court; South Carolina House of RepresenDelta Zeta Lambda
tatives; Interim President of South Carolina
State University
Luther H. Foster, Jr.
Beta Gamma
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Fourth President of Tuskegee University
ACADEMIA/EDUCATORS CONT.
“unknown”
President of Virginia State University
Norman Francis
Sigma Lambda
President of Xavier University; President of
Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
James Gavin
Gamma Mu
President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Hugh Gloster
Alpha Rho
President of Morehouse College
George Gore, Jr.
“unknown”
First President of Florida A&M University; Interim President of Fisk University; Founder of
Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
Cornelius Henderson
Alpha Phi
President of Gammon Theological Seminary
Charles Hines
Beta
President of Prairie View A&M University;
Major General
Ernest Holloway
Beta Kappa
14th President of Langston University
John Hope
Eta Lambda
First Black President of Morehouse College;
President of Atlanta University; Co-founder
of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th
President of the Association for the Study of
African American Life and History (ASALH);
1936 Spingarn Medal recipient
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Delta Lambda
President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County; social activist
Frederick Humphries
Beta Nu
First President of Florida A&M University
Charles S. Johnson
Theta
Editor of the National Urban League’s Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk
University
Walter M. Kimbrough
Zeta Pi
President of Philander Smith College
Raphael Lanier
Mu Lambda
United States Ambassador to Liberia; First
President of Texas Southern University
Thomas F. Law
“unknown”
First President of St. Paul's College
NOTABLE ALPHAS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Luther H. Foster, Sr.
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ACADMIA/EDUCATORS, PROFESSORS & RESEARCHERS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
John H. Lewis
“unknown”
President of Morris Brown College
John Middleton
“unknown”
President of Morris Brown College
Luna Mishoe
“unknown”
President of Delaware State University
Joseph T. McMillan, Jr.
Beta
First President of Huston-Tillotson College
Frederick D. Patterson
“unknown”
Third President Tuskegee University; Cofounder of the United Negro College Fund
(UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom
and 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient
Benjamin Payton
“unknown”
Fifth President of Tuskegee University
Henry Ponder
Beta Kappa
President of Talladega College, Fisk University
and Benedict College; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice-chairman World
Policy Council
Earl Richardson
“unknown”
President of Morgan State University
John Slaughter
Kappa Tau
Louis Wade Sullivan
Alpha Rho
Ronald Temple
Delta Gamma
Lambda
President of University of Maryland and Occidental College; First African American
Director of the National Science Foundation
Secretary of Health and Human Services;
Co-founder and first President of Morehouse
School of Medicine
President of City Colleges of Chicago
PROFESSORS & RESEARCHERS
8
L. Jerome Brandon
Zeta Omicron
First Black Preisdent of the Southeast Regional Chapter of the American College of
Sports Medicine, Research in the metabolic
syndrome primarily in African Americans; also
some research in aging and physical function
in African Americans
John Hope Franklin
Alpha Zeta
President of American Historical Association;
1995 Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of
Freedom, and 2006 Kluge Prize recipient
NOTABLE ALPHAS
RHODES SCHOLARS, BUSINESS
Alpha Sigma
Elgy Johnson
“unknown”
Mathematician
Kelly Miller
Beta
Mathematician; First Black admitted to Johns
Hopkins University; Author of Out of the
House of Bondage
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Hobart Jarrett
Member of the Wiley College Debate Team
that in 1935 defeated the University of Southern California national champions; author of
the second volume of The History of Sigma
Pi Phi
(Honorary)
James A. Porter
Beta
First scholar whose book Modern Negro Art
became a standard reference work on Black
Art in America
Cornel West
Zeta Beta Lambda
Professor of religion at Harvard and Princeton
RHODES SCHOLARS
Norman Washington Manley Beta Beta Lambda
Prime Minister of Jamaica, Founder of Jamaica's People's National Party, 1914 Rhodes
Scholar
Westley Moore
Sigma Sigma
2001 Rhodes Scholar
Randal Pinkett
"unknown"
4th Winner of NBC's reality show, The Apprentice; Rhodes Scholar
Kurt Schmoke
"Unknown"
First Black Mayor of Baltimore; Rhodes
Scholar
Andrew Zawacki
Kappa Pi
1994 Rhodes Scholar
Jesse Binga
Honorary
Founder of Binga State Bank in Chicago
Henry Brown
“unknown”
Vice President for Marketing Affairs and Development with Anheuser-Busch
W. Melvin Brown
Beta Delta
CEO of American Development Corporation
BUSINESS
NOTEABLE ALPHAS
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BUSINESS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Allen Counts
Beta
Chairman, Doley Securities, Inc.; former President, Mcclendon, Pryor, Counts (once the
largest black-owned investment bank in the
USA)
Thomas J. Burrell
Theta
CEO of Burrell Advertising
Nathaniel Goldston
“unknown”
CEO and founder of Gourmet Services
Alonzo F. Herndon
Eta Lambda
Founder and President of Atlanta Life Insurance; namesake of the Alonzo Herndon
Stadium at Morris Brown College
(Honorary)
10
Norris Herndon
Sigma
President of Atlanta Life Insurance
Eugene Jackson
Epsilon Psi
CEO of World African Network
Charles James III
“unknown”
CEO of James Produce
Clifton Jeter
Beta
CEO, Agricultural Federal Credit Union; CFO
of Kennedy Center
John H. Johnson
Theta
Founder of Johnson Publishing Company,
which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines;
First Black to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich
List, namesake of Howard University’s School
of Communications, Presidential Medal of
Freedom and 1966 Spingarn Medal recipient; a portion of Chicago’s famed Michigan
Avenue was renamed John H. Johnson
Avenue
L.D. Milton
“unknown”
President of Citizens Bank
Henry Parks
Kappa
Founder of Parks Sausage
NOTABLE ALPHAS
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannonball Adderley
Beta Nu
Jazz Saxophonist
Gerald Albright
Iota Chi
American Jazz Saxophonist
Jerry Butler
Xi Lambda
Songwriter, composer, former lead singer of
The Impressions
Duke Ellington
Composer, bandleader, actor; Grammy Award
winner; 1959 Spingarn Medal and 1969 PresiAlpha Zeta Lambda
dential Medal of Freedom recipient; Pulitzer
Prize in recognition of his musical genius
Marc Gay
Beta
Singer in the R&B group Shai
Lionel Hampton
Phi
Jazz percussionist and bandleader; National
Medal of Arts recipient; Goodwill Ambassador for the United States
Antonio Hart
Sigma
Jazz Saxophonist
Samuel Pierce
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Alpha
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Argued before the United States
Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther
King Jr. and the New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York
Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to
serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune
500 company
ENTERTAINMENT
MUSIC
Songwriter and arranger for The Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, and Aretha Franklin; singer
who recorded duets with Roberta Flack,
recorded the theme song to the TV series
Maude
Pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer,
important in the development of big band
jazz and Swing music
Donny Hathaway
Beta
Fletcher Henderson
Alpha Phi
Carl Martin
Beta
Lionel Richie
Alpha Nu Lambda
Singer and member of the Commodores,
Grammy Award and Academy Award winner;
2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree
NOTABLE ALPHAS
11
ENTERTAINMENT
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Noble Sissle
“unknown”
Jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, and
singer of the Harlem Renaissance; lyricist
of Shuffle Along which became the first hit
musical on Broadway written by and about
African-Americans
Darnell Van Rensalier
Beta
FILM, TELEVISION, & THEATER
12
Darryl M. Bell
Delta Zeta
Actor, best known for A Different World
Benny Boom
Pi Rho
Director of music videos
Rusty Cundieff
Alpha Delta
Todd Duncan
“unknown”
Derek Fordjour
Delta Chi
Gary Hardwick
Epsilon
Producer, writer, director of The Brothers, Deliver Us from Eva, "Radio", and Bring It On
Rob Hardy
Beta Nu
Producer, writer, director and actor of films
such as The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp
the Yard, and Trois
Kefla Hare
Xi Beta
Cast Member, Road Rules: Down Under
Gabriel Langley
Beta Sigma
Cast Member, best known for College Hill, the
first African American reality television show
Vaughn Lowery
Alpha
Spokesmodel for Joe Boxer
William Packer
Beta Nu
Joseph C. Phillips
Iota Zeta Lambda
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Actor, writer; director of Tales from the Hood,
and the Chappelle's Show; correspondent on
TV Nation
First Black to sing with a major opera company and also the original Porgy in George
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; 1984 George Peabody Medal of Music recipient
Producer of "The Black Sorority Project: The
Exodus", the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Producer, writer, director and actor of films
such as The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp
the Yard, and Trois
Actor in The Cosby Show, General Hospital,
and Strictly Business, political commentator
on NPR’s "News and Notes with Ed Gordon"
GOVERNMENT
"unknown"
Paul Robeson
Nu
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Gamma Phi
Jamar White
Delta Chi
Drew Watkins
Beta
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Randal Pinkett
4th Winner of NBC's reality show, The Apprentice; Rhodes Scholar
NFL player, Actor and singer; social activist,
1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace
Prize laureate
Creator of comedy series In Living Color;
Actor, comedian, writer, director; Emmy
Award winner
Producer of "The Black Sorority Project: The
Exodus", the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Producer, Inside the NBA; 2-time Emmy
Award winner
GOVERNMENT/LAW/PUBLIC POLICY
VICE PRESIDENTS/SUPREME COURT
Hubert Humphrey
Thurgood Marshall
Honorary
38th Vice President of the United States;
1968 Presidential candidate; Senator from
Minnesota; Mayor of Minneapolis; 1979 Congressional Gold Medal and 1980 Presidential
Medal of Freedom recipient
Nu
First Black Justice of U.S. Supreme Court;
Attorney in the landmark Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka; First Director-Counsel
of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; 1946 Spingarn Medal and 1993 Presidential Medal of
Freedom recipient
CABINET & CABINET LEVEL RANKS
Lee P. Brown
Epsilon Beta
Director of National Drug Control Policy; First
African-American Mayor of Houston, Texas
Robert J. Brown
“unknown”
Special Assistant for Minority Affairs
NOTABLE ALPHAS
13
GOVERNMENT
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Psi
Secretary of Transportation; First Black Supreme Court law clerk; co-author of the brief
in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; co-counsel on the landmark
case, McLaughlin v. Florida, which established
the constitutionality of interracial marriages;
Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient;
Omicron
League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director
of the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President
of Alpha Phi Alpha
Samuel Pierce
Alpha
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Argued before the United States
Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther
King Jr. and the New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York
Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to
serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune
500 company
Emmett Scott
Honorary
Special Assistant to the Secretary of War
Louis Wade Sullivan
Alpha Rho
Co-founder and first President of Morehouse
School of Medicine
William Thaddeus Coleman,
Jr.
Rayford Logan
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
SENATE
Edward Brooke
Beta
Senator from Massachusetts; Attorney General of Massachusetts; Chairman Emeritus of
World Policy Council; 1967 Spingarn Medal
and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Delta Theta
Representative from Missouri; Mayor of
Kansas City, Missouri
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Emanuel Cleaver
14
NOTABLE ALPHAS
GOVERNMENT
“unknown”
Representative from Illinois
William Levi Dawson
Theta
Ron Dellums
Xi Rho
Representative from California; Co-founder
of the Congressional Black Caucus; Mayor of
Oakland
Julian C. Dixon
Gamma Xi
Representative from California
Chaka Fattah
Zeta Omicron
Lambda
Representative from Pennsylvania
Floyd H. Flake
Zeta Gamma
Lambda
Representative from Illinois; President of Wilberforce University
Harold Ford, Sr.
Beta Omicron
Representative from Tennessee; Legislator of
Tennessee
William H. Gray
Rho
Representative from Pennsylvania; House
Majority Whip and House Democratic Whip;
CEO of the United Negro College Fund
Al Green
Beta Nu
Representative from Texas
Earl F. Hilliard
Alpha Rho
Representative from Alabama; Legislator of
Alabama
Gregory W. Meeks
Zeta Zeta Lambda
Representative from New York; New York
State Assembly
Ralph Metcalfe
Nu Xi
Representative from Illinois; Co-founder of
the Congressional Black Caucus; 1932 and
1936 Olympian
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
“unknown”
Representative from New York
Charles B. Rangel
Alpha Gamma
Lambda
Representative from New York; Co-founder of
the Congressional Black Caucus; First Black
to chair the Committee on Ways and Means;
New York State Assembly Representative
David Scott
Beta Nu
Representative from Georgia
NOTABLE ALPHAS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Danny K. Davis
15
GOVERNMENT
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Robert C. Scott
Sigma
Representative from Virginia
Bennett M. Stewart
“unknown”
GOVERNORS & LT. GOVERNORS
Walter A. Gordon
Alpha Epsilon
17th Governor of the United States Virgin
Islands; Federal District Judge of the United
States Virgin Islands
Joe Rogers
Omicron Tau
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
Roy L. Schneider
Beta
Islands
Charles Wesley Turnbull
Gamma Iota
Islands
James R. Williams
Alpha Tau
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio candidate, 25th
Orison Rudolph Aggrey
Gamma Iota
Republic of The Gambia, Republic of Senegal,
and Romania
Archibald Carey, Jr
“unknown”
Diplomat
Walter Carrington
Sigma
Republic of Senegal and Federal Republic of
Nigeria
Horace Dawson
Nu Chapter
Republic of Botswana; Director of the Ralph
Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard
University; Chairman of the World Policy
Council
Frederick Douglass
Omega
Republic of Haiti; Anti-slavery activist
Lionel Hampton
Phi
Goodwill Ambassador; Jazz percussionist and
bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient
AMBASSADORS
16
NOTABLE ALPHAS
GOVERNMENT
Beta Sigma
South Africa; Under Secretary of Interior
Kenton Keith
Upsilon
State of Qatar
Raphael Lanier
Mu Lambda
Liberia; First President of Texas Southern University
Delano Lewis
Upsilon
South Africa; President and Chief Executive
Officer of National Public Radio; President
of The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company
Donald McHenry
Eta Tau
United Nations
John H. Morrow
Delta Iota
First United States Ambassador to Guinea
after its independence; first U. S. Representative to the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
Gerald Eustis Thomas
“unknown”
Guyana and Kenya
Terence Todman
“unknown”
Republic of Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain,
Denmark, and Argentina
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. Sigma
Norway and Minister to Romania
Franklin Williams
“unknown”
Republic of Ghana and the United Nations;
President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund
Beta
The United Nations; Representative from
Georgia; 2-term Mayor of Atlanta; 1990 Governor of Georgia candidate; 1978 Spingarn
Medal, 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom,
and French Légion d'honneur recipient
Dennis Archer
Alpha Upsilon
Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court;
Mayor of Detroit, Michigan; First Black President of the American Bar Association
Richard Arrington
Gamma Kappa
First Black Mayor of Birmingham
Andrew Young
NOTABLE ALPHAS
James A. Joseph
MAYORS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
17
GOVERMENT
NOTABLE ALPHAS
18
Thomas V. Barnes
“unknown”
Mayor of Gary, Indiana
Marion Barry
Beta Xi
Mayor of Washington, D.C.; first Chairman of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Ted Berry
Alpha Alpha
First Black Mayor of Cincinnati; Board
member of the NAACP
Byron Brown
Delta Epsilon
Senator of New York; First Black Mayor of
Buffalo
Willie Brown
Xi Rho
First Black Mayor of San Francisco; Speaker
of the California State Assembly
David Dinkins
Beta
First Black Mayor of New York City
Maynard Jackson
Alpha Rho
First Black and 3-term Mayor of Atlanta
Harvey Johnson, Jr.
Beta Omicron
First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Kwame Kilpatrick
Beta Nu
Mayor of Detroit
Marc Morial
Psi
Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League
Ernest Nathan Morial
Beta Tau
Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New
Orleans; namesake of the Ernest N. Morial
Convention Center in New Orleans
Rudolph McCollum
Beta
Mayor of Richmond
James McGee
Xi
First Black Mayor of Dayton
Norm Rice
Alpha Xi
First and only African-American Mayor of
Seatttle
Eugene Sawyer
Beta Upsilon
Mayor of Chicago
NOTABLE ALPHAS
GOVERMENT
Delta Lambda
First Black Mayor of Baltimore; Rhodes
Scholar
Lionel Wilson
Alpha Epsilon
First Black Mayor of Oakland
Eta Lambda
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
Kappa Eta
Host of the syndicated show Judge Joe
Brown; Presided over James Earl Ray’s last
appeal for Ray's conviction for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.;
Nu
Pivotal role in Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v.
Board of Education, and NAACP v. Alabama;
U.S. District Court Judge; 2004 Spingarn
Medal recipient
Julius Chambers
Gamma Beta
Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University
Christopher Darden
Epsilon Mu
Prosecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson
Milton C. Davis
Gamma Phi
Assistant Attorney General of the state of
Alabama who researched and wrote opinions which led Governor George Wallace
to pardon Clarence Norris, the last known
surviving defendant in international cause
célèbre case of the Scottsboro Boys; 29th
Harry T. Edwards
Theta Zeta Lambda
Justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Kurt Schmoke
JUDGES/LAWYERS
Robert Benham
Joe Brown
Robert L. Carter
Ernest A. Finney, Jr.
Charles Hamilton Houston
Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme
Court; South Carolina House of RepresenDelta Zeta Lambda
tatives; Interim President of South Carolina
State University
chief architect of the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund's strategy for racial equality in dismanSigma
tling the Jim Crow laws; First Black Editor
of the Harvard Law Review; 1950 Spingarn
Medal recipient
NOTABLE ALPHAS
19
GOVERMENT
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Beta Tau
President of the Washington, D.C. Martin
Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project
Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundraising, design, and construction of the Martin
Luther King, Jr. National Memorial; 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Zeta
Chief Justice of the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Michigan who
famously ruled in United States v. Sinclair
(upheld in United States v. U.S. District Court)
that President Nixon's Attorney General John
Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of illegal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized
without first obtaining a search warrant; 1974
Spingarn Medal recipient
Belford Lawson, Jr.
Epsilon
Co-founder of New Negro Alliance; succesfully argued in United States Supreme Court
cases styled New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary
Grocery Co. to safeguard the right to boycott,
and Henderson v. United States that abolished segregation in railroad dining cars; 16th
Greg Mathis
Gamma Lambda
Host of television series Judge Mathis
Alpha Omicron
Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court;
one of two staff lawyers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People who successfully argued Henderson v.
United States
Arthur Shores
Alpha Beta
Attorney in Lucy v. Adams which prevented
the University of Alabama from denying admission to applicants solely on account of
race or color.
A.P. Tureaud
Beta
Attorney in Garner v. Louisiana which legalized sit-in protests at segregated private
businesses and restaurants.
Horace Ward
Alpha Rho
Senator of Georgia; first African American to
serve on the federal bench in Georgia.
Harry E. Johnson
Damon Keith
Jawn Sandifer
U.S. POLITICAL & LEGAL FIGURES
William T. Andrews
20
NOTABLE ALPHAS
“unknown”
New York State Assembly
JOURNALSIM/MEDIA
Gamma Beta
Roland Burris
Beta Eta
First Black Illinois Attorney General
Al Edwards
“unknown”
Texas House of Representatives; considered
the father of the Juneteenth Holiday
Isiah Leggett
Beta Sigma
County Executive; Montgomery County, MD,
first and only African-American elected to the
county council
Carl McCall
Theta Zeta
Legislator of New York; Comptroller of New
York; 2002 Democratic candidate for Governor of New York
I. Ray Miller
Alpha Rho Lambda
Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio
Senate
William Byron Rumford
Gamma Phi Lambda California State Legislature
Vernon Sykes, PhD
Phi
Ohio Senate
Albert Vann
Alpha Xi Lambda
New York State Assembly
Herb Wesson
Nu
California State Assembly; Speaker of the
California State Assembly
Tyrone Yates
Alpha Alpha
Ohio House of Representatives
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Daniel T. Blue, Jr.
North Carolina House of Representatives;
Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; 2002 Democratic candidate for
the United States Senate
OFFICIALS OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Norman Washington Manley Beta Beta Lambda
Edward Richards
Epsilon Theta
Lambda
5th Prime Minister of Jamaica, Founder of Jamaica's People's National Party, 1914 Rhodes
Scholar
First Premier of Bermuda
JOURNALISM/MEDIA
NOTABLE ALPHAS
21
LITERATURE
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Ron Allen
Psi
News correspondent for NBC and ABC
Tony Brown
Alpha Upsilon
Commentator of the syndicated television
show; Tony Brown's Journal; founding dean
of Howard University's School of Communication
Malvin Russell Goode
Omicron
First Black news correspondent for ABC as a
United Nations reporter
Jay Harris
Nu Theta
Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and
ESPNEWS
Roland S. Martin
Pi Omicron
Editor of the Chicago Defender, radio talk
show host; contributor to CNN
Stuart Scott
Mu Zeta
Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter
Chuck Stone
“unknown”
Speechwriter for Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.;
First president of the National Association of
Black Journalists; Tuskegee Airman
Stan Verrett
Beta
Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and
ESPNEWS
Countee Cullen
Eta
Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Eric Jerome Dickey
Kappa Eta
Author
E. Lynn Harris
Kappa Kappa
Author, playwright
Chester Himes
Kappa
Author whose works include If He Hollers
Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective
novels
Lawrence Ross
Alpha Epsilon
Author of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Carl Weber
Beta Gamma
Author
LITERATURE
22
NOTABLE ALPHAS
MILITARY SERVICE / RELIGION
NOTABLE ALPHAS
MILITARY SERVICE
Wesley A. Brown
“unknown”
Lieutenant Commander; First Black graduate
from United States Naval Academy
Roscoe Cartwright
“unknown”
General, United States Army
Victor Daly
Alpha
French Croix de Guerre recipient
Fred Gordon
Mu Beta Lambda
Brigadier General; First African-American
First Captain of the West Point Academy
Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.
Gamma
First African American Admiral, United States
Navy; First African American to command a
U.S. fleet.
Benjamin Thurman Hacker
Epsilon Mu Lambda Major General, United States Army
Edward Honor
Beta Sigma
Rear Admiral, United States Navy
James McCall
“unknown”
Major General Chief in the Pentagon Budget
Office
Winston E. Scott
Alpha Phi Lambda
Astronaut, Johnson Space Center
Johnnie E. Wilson
“unknown”
Four Star General, United States Army
John Hurst Adams
“unknown”
President of Congress of Black Churches
Vinton R. Anderson
“unknown”
92nd Bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church; President of World Council of
Churches
Tyrone Crider
“unknown”
National Director of Operation PUSH
RELIGION
NOTABLE ALPHAS
23
SCIENCE
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Harold Davis
“unknown”
President of American Baptist Churches
First national director of the United Methodist Black Caucus; Professor of Theology at
Howard University and Princeton University;
Editor of The African American Jubilee Bible
Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); President of
National Baptist Convention; Organized the
Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953
Cain Hope Felder
Beta
T. J. Jemison
Beta Upsilon
E. Edward Jones
“unknown”
President of National Baptist Convention,
America
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sigma
1962 Nobel Peace Prize; Civil rights activist;
Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day was established in honor; 1957
Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of
Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold
Medal recipient; first African American with a
memorial on the National Mall
Alfred J. Smith
“unknown”
President of Progressive National Baptist
Convention
SCIENCE
Herman Branson
Beta Gamma
James Comer
Gamma Eta
Lloyd Hall
Alpha Mu
LaSalle Leffalle
Kappa
Garrett A. Morgan
Earl W. Renfroe
24
NOTABLE ALPHAS
President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha
helix; Sickle cell physicist
Prominent child psychiatrist; Founder of the
Comer School Development Program at the
Yale Child Study Center; associate dean at
the Yale School of Medicine
Chemist who contributed to the science of
food preservation. Author of 59 United States
patents, and a number of his inventions were
also patented in foreign countries
President of American College of Surgeons;
President of American Cancer Society
Inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks)
Delta Alpha Lambda
and a hair-straightening preparation; patented a type of traffic light signal
Orthodontist, for many years, he was acknowledged as one of the best hands-on
“unknown”
clinical orthodontics instructors in the world;
a dental facility in Barbados is named after
Renfroe
SERVICE/SOCIAL REFORM
Alpha Rho
Levi Watkins, Jr.
Beta Omicron
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Louis Wade Sullivan
CO-founder and first President of Morehouse
School of Medicine
Chief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns
Hopkins Hospital; Performed the world’s first
human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator; First African-American
medical student at Vanderbilt University
SERVICE/SOCIAL
REFORM
Julius Chambers
Gamma Beta
Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University
Frederick Douglass
Omega
United States Ambassador to Haiti; Anti-slavery activist
Epsilon
Co-founder of Niagara Movement and
NAACP; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The
Crisis; First African American to receive a
Ph.D. from Harvard University; 1920 Spingarn
Medal recipient
W.E.B. Du Bois
(Honorary)
Henry Edwards
Beta
World-famous sociologist
E. Franklin Frazier
Beta
Lloyd L. Gaines
Alpha Psi
Lester Granger
Theta Zeta
3rd Executive Secretary of the National Urban
League
Dick Gregory
Beta Eta
1968 Presidential candidate; comedian, social
activist, writer
George Haynes
“unknown”
First President of the National Urban League;
First African American to receive a Ph.D. from
Columbia University
First Black President of the American Sociological Association; Sociologist on race
relations;
Central figure of one of the most important
cases in the U.S. civil rights movement–Supreme Court case styled Gaines v. Canada
NOTABLE ALPHAS
25
SERVICE / SOCIAL REFORM
NOTABLE ALPHAS
26
First Black President of Morehouse College;
President of Atlanta University; Co-founder
of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th
President of the Association for the Study of
African American Life and History (ASALH);
1936 Spingarn Medal recipient
Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; President of the National
Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton
Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953
Editor of the National Urban League’s Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk
University
Plaintiff whose successful legal challenge
opened the University of Kentucky to AfricanAmerican students in 1949
2nd Executive Director of the National Urban
League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet
1962 Nobel Peace Prize; Civil rights activist;
Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day was established in honor; 1957
Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of
Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold
Medal recipient; first African American with a
memorial on the National Mall
League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director
of the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President
of Alpha Phi Alpha
Co-founder of the Association for the
Study of African American Life and History
(ASALH); namesake of Howard University’s
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
John Hope
Eta Lambda
T. J. Jemison
Beta Upsilon
Charles S. Johnson
Theta
Lyman T. Johnson
Gamma
Eugene K. Jones
Alpha
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sigma
Rayford Logan
Omicron
Jesse E. Moorland
Beta
Marc Morial
Psi
Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League
Floyd McKissick
“unknown”
2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality;
Founder of Soul City
Hugh Bernard Price
“unknown”
7th President of the National Urban League
Paul Robeson
Nu
Prize laureate
NOTABLE ALPHAS
SPORTS
Alpha Omicron
Herman Sweatt
Alpha Sigma
Channing Heggie Tobias
“unknown”
Wyatt Tee Walker
Gamma
Alfred Bitini Xuma
“unknown”
Max Yergan
“unknown”
Whitney Young
Beta Mu
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Jawn Sandifer
Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court;
one of two staff lawyers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) who successfully argued
Henderson v. United States
Plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case styled
Sweatt v. Painter that successfully challenged
the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial
segregation established by the 1896 case
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chairman of the NAACP, Director of the
Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal
recipient
Co-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC); Civil and human rights activist
President of the African National Congress
2nd President of the National Negro Congress; Co-founder of the International Council
on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal recipient
4th President of the National Urban League;
1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient;
namesake of the Whitney Young Memorial
Bridge
SPORTS
OLYMPICS
Dave Albritton
Kappa
1936 Olympian, high jump; inducted into the
USA Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1980
Don Barksdale
Gamma Xi
1948 Olympian and first African American to
play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team;
NBA player
Walt Bellamy
"unknown"
1960 Olympian NBA player
Quinn Buckner
Gamma Eta
1976 Olympian; NBA player
Sayon Cooper
Delta Xi
2000 Olympian, Track and Field
NOTABLE ALPHAS
27
SPORTS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Nu Xi
Representative from Illinois; 1932 and 1936
Olympian
Jesse Owens
Kappa
1936 Olympian in Track and Field, Associated Press Athlete of the Year, 1936; 1976
Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1990 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; namesake of
the Jesse Owen Memorial Stadium at Ohio
State University
Mike Powell
Omicron Eta
1988 and 1992 Olympian, long jump
Eddie Tolan
Epsilon
1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 metres
Lenny Wilkens
Zeta Pi Lambda
NBA player and coach; 1996 Olympian, Basketball Coach
John Woodruff
Omicron
1936 Olympian in Track and Field
Kevin Young
Gamma Xi
1988 and 1992 Olympian, Track and field
Ralph Metcalfe
BASKETBALL
28
Nate Archibald
Theta Delta Lambda National Basketball Association (NBA) player
Junior Bridgeman
Delta Chi Lambda
NBA player
John O. Brown
“unknown”
Basketball coach for Dillard University
Quinn Buckner
Gamma Eta
NBA player and coach
Todd Day
Kappa Kappa
NBA player, WASL player of Lebanon
Wayne Embry
Delta Upsilon
NBA player and General Manager; Basketball
Hall of Fame
Clyde Fletcher
Kappa Kappa
NBA player, Arkansas Razorbacks
NOTABLE ALPHAS
SPORTS
Eta Epsilon Omega NBA player
Bobby Phills
Beta Sigma
NBA player, Continental Basketball Association player
Wes Unseld
”unknown”
NBA player and coach
John "Hot Rod" Williams
Rho Iota
NBA player
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Chris Mills
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Bobby Bell
Mu
National Football League (NFL) player, Pro
Football Hall of Fame
Wes Chandler
Theta Sigma
NFL player, Four time Pro Bowl player
Michael Clayton
Nu Psi
NFL player
Greg Coleman
Beta Nu
NFL player, First African American punter in
the NFL
Donald Driver
Delta Kappa
NFL player
Carl Eller
Mu
NFL player, 2004 Pro Football Hall of Fame
Mel Farr, Jr.
Gamma Xi
NFL player
Mike Farr
Gamma Xi
NFL player
Charles Fisher
Pi Mu
NFL player
Barry Foster
“unknown”
NFL player
NOTABLE ALPHAS
29
SPORTS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
30
Derrick Gaffney
Theta Sigma
NFL player
Nesby Glasgow
Alpha Xi
NFL player
Barrett Green
Pi Mu
NFL player
Sammy Green
Theta Sigma
NFL player
Rosey Grier
Gamma Nu
NFL player; Singer; Actor, best known for The
Thing with Two Heads; helped apprehend
Sirhan Sirhan in the immediate aftermath of
Robert F. Kennedy's assassination
Charles Haley
Xi Delta
NFL player, Five time Pro Bowl player
Michael Jackson
Mu Xi
NFL player
Trezelle Jenkins
Epsilon
NFL player
Ron Johnson
"unknown"
NFL player, Chairman of the National Football
Foundation
Dhani Jones
Epsilon
NFL player
Steve Jordan
Alpha Gamma
NFL player
Carnell Lake
Gamma Xi
NFL player
Henry Lawrence
Beta Nu
NFL player
Mark Lee
Alpha Xi
NFL player
Mike Merriweather
Nu Chi
NFL player, Three-time Pro Bowl player
NOTABLE ALPHAS
SPORTS
Mu
NFL player
Adrian Murrell
Pi Mu
NFL player
Vincent Newsome
Alpha Xi
NFL player, (current assistant director of pro
personnel for Baltimore Ravens)
Roman Oben
”unknown”
NFL player
Brig Owens
Alpha Alpha
NFL player
Michael Pittman
Epsilon Beta
NFL player
Fritz Pollard
Alpha Gamma
One of the first two Black players in the NFL
in 1920; first Black head coach in the NFL;
2005 Pro Football Hall of Fame
Marcus Pollard
Epsilon Kappa
NFL player
Jethro Pugh
Beta Zeta
NFL player
Ken Riley
Beta Nu
NFL player
Paul Robeson
Nu
Eddie Robinson
Art Shell
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Bill Munsey
Prize laureate
Head of Grambling State University football
program for 56 years, established himself as
Beta Iota Lambda
the winningest coach in college football history, becoming the first coach to record 400
wins, and recorded 408 total career wins
NFL player, Four-time Pro Bowl player; Pro
Gamma Chi Lambda Football Hall of Fame; Second Black head
coach in the NFL
Max Starks
Theta Sigma
NFL player
Sandy Stephens
Mu
NFL player; First African American All-American Quarterback
NOTABLE ALPHAS
31
OTHER ATHLETICS / OTHER ALPHAS
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Lemuel Stinson
Eta Upsilon
NFL player
John Thornton
Pi Mu
NFL player
Gene Upshaw
AFL player; 1987 Pro Football Hall of Fame;
Gamma Chi Lambda President of National Football League Players
Association (NFLPA)
Reggie Williams
Theta Zeta
NFL player
Claudius Wright
“unknown”
NFL player
Eric Wright
Zeta Alpha
NFL player, Two-time Pro Bowl player
Jason Wright
Alpha Mu
NFL player
Pi
Professional NHB and mixed martial arts
fighter. FCF, TFC, and International Fight
League
Raymond Cannon
Mu
First Editor of The Sphinx, the official publication of Alpha Phi Alpha; 12th General
President of Alpha Phi Alpha
George Fletcher
Alpha
First honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha
OTHER ATHLETICS
Gerald Harris
OTHER ALPHAS
(Honorary)
32
Henry Minton
Zeta Omicron
Lambda
Hilyard Robinson
“unknown”
Ferdinand Rousserve
Sigma
NOTABLE ALPHAS
Co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity; cofounder of Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia;
1891 Valedictorian of Phillips Exeter Academy
Architect, Designed buildings for Howard
University, Hampton University and Langston
Terrace Dwellings in Washington, D.C.
Designer of the second fraternity shield that
is currently used by Alpha Phi Alpha
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