Alpha Men

[Professor]

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