Bro. Garrett A. MorganSr. Inventor of 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. Alexander T. Augusta First African-American to head a hospital in the U.S Bro. Marion BarryFormer 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. DelanyFirst Black to matriculate from Harvard Medical School/First Black Major in the U.S. Army Bro. W.E.B. DuBoisEducator/author/historian Bro. Alexander Dumas Author Bro. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington Orchestra leader/composer Bro. Medgar Wiley EversCivil Rights leader Bro. James FortenAbolitionist/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.SBro. 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 renowned zoologist 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 Former 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 RobertsFirst 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/Institute 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.