Famous Alpha Men
First of All Servants of All We Shall Transcend All
60% of all Black male doctors are Alphas
70% of all Black male lawyers are Alphas
65% of all Black male dentists are Alphas
and 95% of all HBCU's have been headed by an Alpha at least once.
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
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 : Present 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
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
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
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