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Famous Alphas

Federal Government

Thurgood Marshall
Ronald Dellums
Julian Dixon
Harry Edwards
Harold Ford
Damon Keith
Samuel Pierce
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Charles Rangle
Aubrey Robinson
Gerald Thomas
Edward W. Brooke
Lee P. Brown
U.W. Clemon
William Coleman
William H. Gray
Earl Hilliard
James A. Joseph
Ralph Metcalfe
Andrew Young

Dennis Archer
Richard Arrington
Thomas V. Barnes
Theodore Berry
David Dinkins
Maynard Jackson
Marion Barry
Henry Marsh
Ernest N. Morial
Eugene Sawyer
Lionel Wilson
Willie Brown
Emmanuel Cleaver
Charles H. Davenport
Marc H. Morial
Charl es Price
Norman Rice
Eugene Sawyer

Sports Figures

Quinn Buckner
Wes Chandler
Greg Coleman
Wayne Embry
Charles Haley
Mike Merriweather
Brig Owens
Jesse Owens
Jethro Pugh
Eddie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Art Shell
Gene Upshaw
Lenny Wilkins
Wes Unseld
Lemuel Stinson
Reggie Williams
Eric Wright
Walt Bellamy
Junior Bridgeman
John O. Brown
Carnell Lake
Mike Powell
Fritz Pollard
Eddie Tolan

Local and State Government
Civic Leaders

W.E.B. DuBois
Dick Gregory
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Robeson
Lester Grange
Charles Hamilton Houston
Hugh B. Price
Whitney M. Young Jr.

Darryl Bell
Tony Brown
Mal Goode
John H. Johnson
Chuck Stone
Gerald Albright
Countee Cullen
Marc Gay
Duke Ellington
Keith Garrett
Lionel Hampton
Donny Hathaway
Carl Martin
Darnell Van Rensalier

Educators/Scholars

Charles H. Wesely
John Hope Franklin
George Gore
Fredrick Patterson
Henry Ponder
Earl Richardson
Walter Washington
James Cheek
John Slaughter
Fredrick Humphries
Benjamin Payton
Norman Francis
E. Franklin Frazier

Media/Entertainment
Military

Gen. Roscoe Cartwright
Brig. Gen. Fred A. Gorden
Adm. Samuel Gravely
Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker
Maj. Gen. Edward Honor
Maj. Gen. James McCall
Com. Winston Scott

James Comer
Joseph Gayles
Lasalle Lefall
Garrett Morgan
Louis Sullivan
Levi Watkins

Religion

Bishop John Hurst Adams
Harold Davis
T.J. Jemison
E. Edward Jones
Wyatt Tee Walker

Science/Medicine
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