Alpha Men
 

Alpha Men are on the forefront of social change in America. Although we all pursue goals in diverse fields of interest, we share a common mission in uplifting the economic condition of all our people. It is simply not enough for an Alpha Man to obtain a college degree, still a larger task remains. An Alpha Man must provide sound leadership in his community, being committed to service.

He is charged to lend a hand to his fellow man.


Civic Leaders
Martin Luther King Jr. : Civil Rights activist
Lester Granger : National Urban League
Frederick Douglass : Anti-Slavery activist
Charles Hamilton Houston : NAACP Legal Counsel
Hugh B. Price - Executive Director : National Urban League
Whitney M. Young Jr. - Executive Director : National Urban League
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. : Civil Rights Activist
Thurgood Marshall : Civil rights activist, supreme court justice
Paul Robeson : Activist, scholar, singer, football player
Dick Gregory : Activist

Education/Scholarship
Julius L. Chambers : Chancellor, North Carolina Central University
James Check : Howard University
Thomas W. Cole, Jr. : President , Clark-Atlanta University
Thomas W. Cole, Sr. : President, Wiley College
James Costen,: President Interdenominational Theological Ctr.
William B. DeLauder : President, Delaware State University
James Douglas : President, Texas Southern University
Norman Francis : President, Xavier University
John Hope Franklin : Author, Historian
William Gray : United Negro College Fund
Cornelius Henderson : President, Gammon Theological Seminary
Ernest Hollway : President, Langston University
Freeman A Hrabowski, III : President, University of Maryland Balto. County
Fredrick Humphries : President, Florida A&M University
Thomas F. Law : President, St. Paul's College
Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. : President, Huston-Tillotson College
Frederick Patterson : Founder, United Negro College Fund
Benjamin Payton : President, Tuskegee University
Henry Ponder : President, Fisk University, NAFEO
Earl Richardson : President, Morgan State Uiversity
Dr. Ronald J. Temple : Chancellor City Colleges of Chicago
Walter Washington : President , Alcorn State University
Charles H. Wesely : Historian, President , Cental Ohio State College
Franklin Williams : Phelps-Stokes Fund
Cornel West : Professor African-Ameican Studies at Harvard University
Dennis Kimbrough - Author
Walter Kimbrough - Author

Military
Roscoe Cartwright : General, United States Army
Samuel Gravel : Admiral, United States Navy
Edward Honor : Major General, United States Army
Adm. Samuel Gravely
Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker
Major General Edward Honor
Major General James McCall
Commander Winston Scott

Science/Medicine
Dr. Lessall D. Leffall : President American College of Surgeons
James Comer : Psychologist
Garrett Morgan : Inventor, Traffic Signal
Louis Sullivan : Secretary of Health and Education
Levi Watkins : Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, John Hopkins Hospital

Government/Politics
O. Rudolph Aggrey : U. S. Ambassador to Romania
Dennis Archer : Mayor of Detroit Michigan
Richard Arrington : Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
Thomas V. Barnes : Mayor of Gary, Indiana
Marion Barry : Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Edward W. Brooke : U.S. Senate, Massachusetts
Lee P. Brown : Office of National Drug Control Policy/War on Drugs Program
Willie Brown : Mayor of San Francisco
Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver : Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
U. W. Clemon : Federal Judge, U.S. District Court
William Coleman : U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Charles H. Davenport : First African-American Police Chief of Vicksburg, Mississippi
Ronald Dellums : California, 9th District
David Dinkins : Former mayor of New York
Julian Dixon : California, 32nd District
Chaka Fattah : Pennsylvania Congressman
Ernest Finney : South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
Rep. Harold Ford : Tennessee, 9th District
William H. Gray : U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
Earl Hilliard : Alabama, 7th District
Maynard Jackson : Former Mayor of Atlanta
James A. Joseph : U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa
Ralph Metcalfe : U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois
Earnest "Dutch" Morial : 1st Black mayor of New Orleans
Marc Morial : Former Mayor of New Orleans
Samuel Pierce : U.S. Secretary of HUD
Charles Price : Ciruit Court Judge, Montgomery County, Maryland
Charles Rangle : Congressman, New York 15th District
Norman Rice : Mayor of Seattle Washington
Eugene Sawyer : Mayor of Chicago, Illinois
Robert "Bobby" Scott : 1st Black Congressman since Reconstruction
Robert C. Scott : Virginia, 3rd Distinct
Bennett Stewart : U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois
Andrew Young : Former Mayor of Atlanta /UN Ambassador
Hubert H. Humphrey: Former Vice President of United States of America
Judge Joe Brown: Judge and Television Host
Christopher Darden: Attorney
KWame Kilpatrick - Mayor of Detroit


Business
Henry Brown : VP Marketing Anheuser Bush
Thomas Burrell : CEO, Burrell Advertising
W. Melvin Brown : CEO, American Development Corporation
Eugene Jackson : CEO, World African Network
Charles James, III : CEO, James Produce
John H. Johnson : Publisher and Founder of Johnson Publications
Nathaniel Goldston : CEO & Founder, Gourmet Services, Inc.,
Delano Lewis : President, National Public Radio (NPR)
Henry Parks : Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.
Joshua Smith : CEO, Maxima Corporation

Entertainment
Duke Ellington : Jazz musician
Quincy Jones : Musician/Composer
Tony Brown : Journalist/Producer
Countee Cullen : Poet
Donny Hathaway : Musician
Eugene Jackson : National Black Network
Chuck Stone : Philadelphia Daily News
Daryl Bell : Actor
Lionel Richie : Singer
Stuart Scott : Sportscenter Anchormen
Gerald Albright : Jazz Musician
Lionel Hampton : Bandleader
Keith Garrett : Executive Producer, Martin Network Television
Marc Gay : Singer, R&B group: SHAI
Mal Goode : First Afican-American Network Reporter
Carl Martin : Singer, R&B group: SHAI
Darnell Van Rensalier : Singer, R&B group: SHAI
Keenan Ivory Wayans

Religious
Bishop John Hurst Adams - President of the Congress of Black Churches
Harold Davis - President, American Baptist Churches
T.J. Jemison - President of the National Baptist Convention, USA Inc.
E. Edward Jones - President of the National Baptist Convention, America
Wyatt Tee Walker - Executive Assisstant of M.L. King Jr. in Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Sports
Jesse Owens : Olympic gold medalist
Eddie Robinson : Winningest coach in college football history
Lenny Wilkens : Winningest coach in NBA history
Rosie Greer : NFL Player
Art Shell : NFL Former Player, and Coach
Todd Day : NBA Player
John "Hot Rod" Williams : NBA Player
Wes Chandler : San Diego Chargers
Fritz Pollard (First Black Head Coach in NFL history
Gene Upshaw : President of NFL Players Association
Reggie Williams : Cincinatti Bengals
Quinn Buckner : Former NBA Player and Coach
Wes Unseld : Former NBA Player and Coach
Mike Powell : World Record Track Star
John O. Brown - Basketball Coach, Dilliard University
Greg Coleman - NFL's First African-American Punter
Wayne Embry - General Manager NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers
Charles Haley - Player, NFL's Dallas Cowboys
Carnell Lake - NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
Eddie Tolan - 1932 Olympic Gold Medalist, Track and Field
Eric Wright - Player NFL's San Francisco '49ers

Education:
Floyd Flake - President Wilberforce University
Charles Kidd - Former President of York College

Politics:
Gregory Meeks - Congressman - US House of Representives

Religion:
Rev. Otis Moss, Jr.
Rt. Rev. H. H. Brookins, AME Bishop
Rev. Theodore Jemison
Rt. Rev. Phillip Cousins, AME Bishop
Rev. E. Edward Jones
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker
Rt. Rev. John Hurst Adams
Rev. James A. Forbes, Jr.
Rev. Dr. Frederick G. Sampson
Rev. J. Alfred Smith
Rt. Rev. Vinton Anderson
Rev. Frederick Douglas Haynes, III
Rev. Dr. T. Garrott Benjamin, Jr.
Rt. Rev. Donald Ming
Rt. Rev. Frank Cummings
Rev. Dr. Joseph Samuel Ratliff
Rev. Cecil Murray; First AME Church
Rev. Harold Davis, Amer. Baptist Churches

Business
Robert L. Coleman; CEO - Wittnauer Watch
Charles D. Watkins; Vice Chm - Wittnauer
Nathaniel Gholston; CEO Gourmet Svcs.
William Pickard; Businessman
Elliott Hall; VP Ford Motor Co.

sphinxpoet,

I sent you a PM regarding the link to my chapter's website, which included photos of many of the Brothers listed here. Unfortunately, your PM box was full. I am not sure why it was deleted, but here it is again:


http://alpha.mulambda.org/prominent.html

Hubert Humphrey??? Was he an honorary?

Yep.

Okay. It just caught me by surprised that living in Humphrey country with active Alpha collegiate and alumni chapters that I had never heard that. :o But I think it is great. He was a wonderful statesman and a true civil rights proponent. My then church's choir sang at this funeral. *sidebar piece of trivia* Ann Nesby's sister, Marie, was the soloist.

Brother Humprhy was also a life member and attended conventions of the Fraternity.

Hi Lawrence Ross, I bought your book when it first came out.

I am not an Alpha, but an Omega.

I wanted to ask you a question. On page 353 of your book, John Johnson says that Norman Manley was in a fraternity.

Was the Prime Minister of Jamaica Norman Manley really in a fraternity?

The reason why I am asking this is because I am Jamaican also.

Blackbird:

I know you addressed this to Lawrence, but Norman Manley was definitely in a fraternity -- he was an Alpha man! :D

I was watching Real Time with Bill Mahar last night(one of my favorite shows) and Brother Kwame Kilpatrick was on there and he as usual was excellent. Catch it on HBO if you can!

Sphinxpoet

Quincy Jones is associated with the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. And I notice you gentlemen don't have any African Presidents on that list

I have to correct you as Brother Flake is an Alpha he was intiated in 2003 before the Detroit Convention. He also attended the convention

Todd Duncan, the first Porgy in "Porgy and Bess." Also the first African American accepted into the New York City Opera. Taught voice at Howard University and lived to the ripe old age of 95.

And of course, a Brother of Mu Lambda Chapter.

Updated Info
 

Alpha Brothers currently serving as
President or in Leadership of Higher Educational Institutions.


Dr. Burnett Joiner - President - Livingston College & Hood Theological Seminary-Salisbury, NC
Calvin Burnett - President- Coppin State College - Baltimore, MD
Oswald P. Bronson, Sr., Ph.D - .President - Bethune-Cookman College - Daytona Beach, FL
Dr. David George Carter - President - Eastern Connecticut State University - Willimantic,Connecticut
Julius L. Chambers, ESQ -Chancellor - President - North Carolina Central University - Durham, NC
Dr. Thomas Cole Jr., President-Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta,Georgia
Alvin A. Cleveland - President - Selma University - Selma, AL
Brother Ronald Crutcher -Provost - Miami University (OH) - Miami, Ohio
William B. DeLauder, Ph.D.- President - Delaware State University- Dover, DE
Dr. Larry L. Earvin - President - Huston-Tillotson College - Austin, Texas
Dr. Dwight Fennell - President - Paul Quinn College - Dallas, Texas
Floyd Flake - President - Wilberforce University - Wilberforce, Ohio
Dr. Elson Floyd - President-University of Missouri -Columbia, Missouri
Norman C. Francis, J.D.- President - Xavier University of Louisiana - New Orleans, LA
James R. Gavin, III, M.D., Ph.D.- President - Morehouse School of Medicine- Atlanta, Georgia
Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D - President - Gannon University - Erie, Pennsylvania
Dr. Jerry L. Hardee, President - Sherman College - Spartanburg, South Carolina
Robert L. Head - President - Urbana University - Urbana, Ohio
Dr. David Henson -President -Lincoln University-Jefferson City, Missouri
Ernest L. Holloway, Ph.D.- President - Langston University- Langston, OK
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III - President - University of Maryland Baltimore, County (UMBC) - Baltimore, MD
Dr. William T. Keaton - President -Arkansas Baptist College - Little Rock, Arkansas
Dr. Harold L Martin, Sr. - President - Winston-Salem State University - Winston-Salem, NC
Wesley Cornelious McClure, Ed.D. - President - Lane College - Jackson, TN
Benjamin F. Payton, Ph.D.- President -Tuskegee University - Tuskegee, AL
Dr. W. Clinton Pettus - President - Cheyney University of Pennsylvania -Cheyney Pennsylvania
Henry Ponder, Ph.D.- President - Talladega College - Talladega, Alabama
Dr. Frank G. Pogue, - President - Edinboro University of Pennsylvania - Edinboro, Pennsylvania
Earl Richardson, Ed.D.- President - Morgan State University - Baltimore, MD
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.- President Emeritus - Morehouse School of MedicineAtlanta, GA
Albert E. Smith - President - Florida Memorial College-Miami, FL
Dr. John K. Waddell - President - St. Paul's College- Lawrenceville, Virginia
Dr. James Wingate, Jr., Ph.D -.President - LeMoyne-Owen College - Memphis, TN

College Vice Presidents:
Dr. Wayne Brumfield- Vice President , University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA
Bruce Crawford - Vice-President, Lawson State Community College, Birmingham, AL
Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough-Vice President, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia

Eddie Robinson was listed this week as #9 on ESPN's 25 Best Coaches In The Last 25 Years list. What makes this especially phenomenal is that the list includes coaches from all sports, all levels, not just college football. Needless to say, he's also the only African-American on the list. Check out the article and pass the word!



ETA updated link
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn2.../25bestcoaches