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[Name]: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
[Class year]: 1911
[Notability]: first African-American president of Howard University
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[Name]: John Warren Davis
[Class year]: 1911
[Notability]: President of West Virginia State College (1919–1953)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Russell L Adams
[Class year]: 1952
[Notability]: Chair, Department Afro-American Studies, Howard University (1971–2005); Professor Emeritus, Howard University
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Benjamin Brawley
[Class year]: 1901
[Notability]: first Dean of Morehouse College
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Calvin O. Butts
[Class year]: 1972
[Notability]: President, SUNY College at Old Westbury; Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: James A. Colston
[Class year]: 1932
[Notability]: 2nd President, Bethune-Cookman University; President Knoxville College; President Savannah State University; 2nd President, Bronx Community College
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Albert W. Dent
[Class year]: 1926
[Notability]: President of Dillard University, Chief Executive of Flint-Goodridge Hospital, advocate for education and healthcare of impoverished people
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Eddie Glaude
[Class year]: 1989
[Notability]: Chair, Center for African American Studies and Professor at Princeton University; guest contributor: The Tavis Smiley Show
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: William E. Holmes
[Class year]:
[Notability]: former President of Central City College, faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute for 25 years.
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John Hopps, Jr.
[Class year]: 1958
[Notability]: former Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Distinguished Physics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; recipient of the Materials Advancement Award
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: James Nabrit, Jr.
[Class year]: 1923
[Notability]: Second African-American president of Howard University and former Deputy United Nations Ambassador
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Calvin Mackie
[Class year]: 1990
[Notability]: former Professor of Engineering, Tulane University; winner of the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering; Black Engineer of the Year for College Level Educators
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Walter E. Massey
[Class year]: 1958
[Notability]: President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; former Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago; former Dean of the College of Physics at Brown University; former Provost of the University of California System; President Emeritus at Morehouse College
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Kevin D. Rome
[Class year]: 1989
[Notability]: former president of Lincoln University (2013–2017); current president of Fisk University (June 2017–ongoing)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
[Class year]: 1989
[Notability]: First African American Faculty Dean, Harvard College. Professor, Harvard Law School and Director of the Criminal Justice Inst. at Harvard Law; legal analyst CNN, Fox News; legal representative for Harvey Weinstein
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: James F. Williams
[Class year]:
[Notability]: current Dean of Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal recipient
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Charles V. Willie
[Class year]: 1948
[Notability]: Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John Silvanus Wilson
[Class year]: 1977
[Notability]: Ph.D, Eleventh president of Morehouse College, former executive director, White House Initiative on HBCUs
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Herman Cain
[Class year]: 1967
[Notability]: former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and 2012 Republican presidential candidate
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: James W. Compton
[Class year]: 1961
[Notability]: Board of Directors, Ariel Investments, Inc.; retired President and CEO, Chicago Urban League
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Paul Q. Judge
[Class year]: 1998
[Notability]: noted entrepreneur and scholar
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Walter E. Massey
[Class year]: 1958
[Notability]: former Chairman, Bank of America; former Director of the National Science Foundation
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Karim Webb
[Class year]:
[Notability]: American restaurateur
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
[Class year]: 1949
[Notability]: senior editor for the Johnson Publishing Group (JET, Ebony); author of Before the Mayflower
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Fonzworth Bentley
[Class year]: 1997
[Notability]: well-known media personality
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Sanford Biggers
[Class year]: 1992
[Notability]: artist, professor Columbia University School of the Arts
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Byron Cage
[Class year]: 1987
[Notability]: Grammy-nominated gospel singer; NAACP Image Award nominee; winner of six Stellar Awards
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Michael DeMond Davis
[Class year]: 1961
[Notability]: Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist; author of Black American Women in Olympic Track & Field and co-author of Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench.
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Thomas Dent
[Class year]: 1952
[Notability]: writer and poet; author of Magnolia Street
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Rockmond Dunbar
[Class year]:
[Notability]: actor, Soul Food, Girlfriends
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Keith "Guru" Elam
[Class year]: 1983
[Notability]: rapper, founder of Gang Starr
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Brian Tyree Henry
[Class year]: 2004
[Notability]: actor, Atlanta (TV series)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Wendell Holland
[Class year]: 2006
[Notability]: Winner of the thirty-sixth season of Survivor
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Samuel L. Jackson
[Class year]: 1972
[Notability]: actor
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Edmund Jenkins
[Class year]: 1914
[Notability]: Harlem Renaissance composer, studied under Kemper Harreld
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Robert E. Johnson
[Class year]: 1948
[Notability]: former Executive Editor and Associate Publisher, Jet Magazine
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Tope Folarin
[Class year]: 2004
[Notability]: Nigerian-American writer
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Canton Jones
[Class year]: 1985
[Notability]: Grammy-nominated gospel singer
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Erik King
[Class year]: 1985
[Notability]: actor, Dexter
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Spike Lee
[Class year]: 1979
[Notability]: film director and producer
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Miles Marshall Lewis
[Class year]: 1993
[Notability]: pop culture critic, essayist, and author
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Seith Mann
[Class year]: 1995
[Notability]: television director: The Wire, Grey's Anatomy; winner of the NAACP Image Award
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Martin Luther McCoy
[Class year]: 1992
[Notability]: musician and actor
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: PJ Morton
[Class year]: 2003
[Notability]: Grammy Award winning Maroon 5 keyboardist and artist
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Bill G. Nunn III
[Class year]: 1976
[Notability]: actor, School Daze, Mo Better Blues, New Jack City
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Babatunde Olatunji
[Class year]: 1954
[Notability]: Grammy Award-winning Nigerian drummer, social activist and recording artist; Drums of Passion
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Kevin A. Ross
[Class year]: 1985
[Notability]: host/executive producer of daytime syndicated legal show America's Court with Judge Ross
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Shakir Stewart
[Class year]: 1996
[Notability]: Senior Vice President of Island Def Jam Music Group, Executive Vice President of Def Jam
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Vincent Tubbs
[Class year]: c.1938
[Notability]: co-founder of National Negro Newspaper Week and first African American to head a motion picture industry union
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Saul Williams
[Class year]: 1994
[Notability]: performing artist and actor
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Sanford Bishop
[Class year]: 1968
[Notability]: U.S. Congressman (Georgia)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: A. Scott Bolden
[Class year]: 1984
[Notability]: Noted Attorney and television political commentator,
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Marlon Kimpson
[Class year]: 1991
[Notability]: South Carolina Senate member and attorney
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: James H. Shelton III
[Class year]: 1989
[Notability]: former Deputy Secretary of Education for the United States
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Julius E. Coles
[Class year]: 1964
[Notability]: former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal; former President of Africare
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: George W. Crockett
[Class year]: 1931
[Notability]: Representative from Michigan; civil rights activist
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: George Haley
[Class year]: 1949
[Notability]: former Chair U.S. Postal Rate Commission and Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana; brother of Alex Haley
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Earl F. Hilliard
[Class year]: 1964
[Notability]: former U.S. Congressman (Alabama)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John Hopps Jr.
[Class year]: 1958
[Notability]: former Deputy Under Secretary United States Department of Defense
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: James Nabrit, Jr.
[Class year]: 1923
[Notability]: former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; second African American President of Howard University
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Major Owens
[Class year]: 1956
[Notability]: U.S. Congressman (New York)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Cedric Richmond
[Class year]: 1995
[Notability]: U.S. Congressman (Louisiana)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: David Satcher
[Class year]: 1963
[Notability]: 16th U.S. Surgeon General, former president of Morehouse School of Medicine
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Louis W. Sullivan
[Class year]: 1954
[Notability]: former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and current President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Horace T. Ward
[Class year]: 1927
[Notability]: first African American to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the UGA School of Law; first African-American to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia;former member of the Georgia Senate
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Julian Bond
[Class year]: 1971
[Notability]: civil rights leader, former Georgia state representative and Chairman of the NAACP
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Terrance Carroll
[Class year]: 1992
[Notability]: Speaker, Colorado House of Representatives
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[Name]: Kenneth Dunkin
[Class year]: 1989
[Notability]: Illinois House of Representatives
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John Monds
[Class year]: 1987
[Notability]: Highest number of votes received by any Libertarian candidate ever
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Frank Peterman
[Class year]: 1985
[Notability]: Florida House of Representatives
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Bakari Sellers
[Class year]: 2005
[Notability]: Youngest member elected to the South Carolina General Assembly
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[Name]: Sebastian Ridley-Thomas
[Class year]: 2009
[Notability]: California State Assembly
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[Name]: Andre Thapedi
[Class year]: 1990
[Notability]: Illinois House of Representatives
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Perry Thurston Jr.
[Class year]: 1982
[Notability]: Florida House of Representatives
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: S. Howard Woodson
[Class year]: 1942
[Notability]: Bachelor of Divinity Morehouse School of Religion; former Speaker, New Jersey General Assembly
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Claude Black Jr.
[Class year]: 1937
[Notability]: first Black mayor Pro Tem San Antonio, Texas; civil rights leader; Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John Wesley Dobbs
[Class year]: 1897
[Notability]: the unofficial "Mayor" of Sweet Auburn Avenue (1937–1949); Civic Leader and co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Maynard Jackson
[Class year]: 1956
[Notability]: first Black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson served three terms as Mayor; founder and CEO of Jackson Securities Inc.; National Development Chair, Democratic National Committee
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Ed McIntyre
[Class year]: 1956
[Notability]: first African-American mayor of Augusta, Georgia
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[Name]: Randall Woodfin
[Class year]: 2003
[Notability]: 29th mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Steven Reed
[Class year]: 1998
[Notability]: first African-American mayor of Montgomery, Alabama
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: George W. Crockett Jr.
[Class year]: 1931
[Notability]: former U.S. Congressman, United States Congress; Founding Member of the National Lawyer's Guild; Co-founded the first racially integrated law firm in the U.S.; first Black attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: George Crockett III
[Class year]: 1961
[Notability]: Judge, Recorder's Court (Detroit); served on the same bench as his father, Judge George Crockett, Jr.
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Ralph B. Everett
[Class year]: 1973
[Notability]: President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Joseph Jerome Farris
[Class year]: 1951
[Notability]: Justice, United States Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Odell Horton
[Class year]: 1951
[Notability]: Justice, U.S. District Court W. Tenn.
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Jeh Johnson
[Class year]: 1979
[Notability]: Secretary of Homeland Security, first black Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, named to the National Law Journal's 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers; appointed General Counsel for the Defense Department by President Barack Obama; former General Counsel U.S. Air Force.
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[Name]: Reginald C. Lindsay
[Class year]: 1967
[Notability]: Justice, United States Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: C. Vernon Mason
[Class year]: 1967
[Notability]: disbarred lawyer, Tawana Brawley case, Howard Beach incident.
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Graham T. Perry
[Class year]: c.1920
[Notability]: first African American Assistant Attorney-General for State of Illinois
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Horace T. Ward
[Class year]: 1949
[Notability]: Federal Judge, U.S. District Court Northern, Georgia; inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame; recipient of the Trumpet Award for Civil Rights Advocacy
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Harrison N. Bouey
[Class year]: 1873
[Notability]: pastor and missionary
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: J. Pius Barbour
[Class year]: 1917
[Notability]: Pastor Calvary Baptist Church; executive director of National Baptist Association; editor of National Baptist Voice; mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Amos C. Brown
[Class year]: 1964
[Notability]: Pastor, Third Baptist Church of San Francisco; President, San Francisco branch of NAACP
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Calvin O. Butts
[Class year]: 1972
[Notability]: Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York; President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury; Chairman and founder of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, an engine for $500 million in housing and commercial development in Harlem
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: M. William Howard, Jr.
[Class year]: 1968
[Notability]: Pastor Bethany Baptist Church, former President, New York Theological Seminary; Chair, Rutgers University Board of Governors
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[Name]: Otis Moss III
[Class year]: 1992
[Notability]: Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ; listed on the Root 100
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Kelly Miller Smith
[Class year]: 1942
[Notability]: Assistant Dean, Vanderbilt University Divinity School (circa 1970s–1980s)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Howard Thurman
[Class year]: 1923
[Notability]: theologian; Dean of Chapel Boston University
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[Name]: Raphael Warnock
[Class year]: 1991
[Notability]: Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Frederick B. Williams
[Class year]:
[Notability]: Canon of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York (1971–2005)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Henry W. Foster, Jr.
[Class year]: 1954
[Notability]: President Emeritus, Meharry Medical College; clinical professor, Vanderbilt University; former nominee to post of U.S. Surgeon General; presidential advisor
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Corey Hébert
[Class year]: 1991
[Notability]: Celebrity Physician, radio talk show host, Chief Medical Editor for National Broadcasting Company for the Gulf Coast, first Black Chief Resident of Pediatrics at Tulane University, Chief executive officer of Community Health TV
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John Hopps, Jr.
[Class year]: 1958
[Notability]: physicist, former longtime Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); recipient of the National Materials Advancement Award; former Deputy Under Secretary for the United States Department of Defense
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Calvin B. Johnson
[Class year]: 1989
[Notability]: 24th Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Paul Q. Judge
[Class year]: 1998
[Notability]: award-winning computer technologist, inventor and entrepreneur; recipient of MIT Technology Review Magazine's "100 Top Innovators under 35"; voted Black Engineer of the Year (2006)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Samuel M. Nabrit
[Class year]: 1925
[Notability]: Distinguished Science Professor; first African-American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; served on Dwight Eisenhower's National Science Board; first African-American to receive a doctoral degree from Brown University; first African-American to serve as Trustee at Brown University; second president of Texas Southern University
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[Name]: Donald Hopkins
[Class year]: 1962
[Notability]: Director and Vice President, Health Programs, The Carter Center; a 1995 MacArthur Fellow; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Roderic I. Pettigrew
[Class year]: 1972
[Notability]: cardiologist and renowned biomedical engineer; Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; former Director of Magnetic Resonance Research and Professor of Radiology and Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine; listed annually among the "Best Doctors in America"
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Asa G. Yancey Sr.
[Class year]: 1937
[Notability]: first African-American professor and Professor Emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine, first African-American doctor and Medical Director at Grady Memorial Hospital
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Charles DeWitt Watts
[Class year]: 1938
[Notability]: first board-certified African-American surgeon in North Carolina; founder of Lincoln Community Health Center
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Hamilton Holmes
[Class year]: 1963
[Notability]: desegregated the University of Georgia (along with Charlayne Hunter); attended Morehouse before transferring to UGA
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[Name]: Martin Luther King Jr.
[Class year]: 1948
[Notability]: prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; delivered the historic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington 1963
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Martin Luther King III
[Class year]: 1979
[Notability]: eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and human rights activist
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Howard Zehr
[Class year]: 1965
[Notability]: grandfather of Restorative Justice; 2006 winner of the Community of Christ Peace Award; first white student to attend Morehouse
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Shaun King (activist)
[Class year]: 2002
[Notability]: civil rights activist, entrepreneur and senior justice writer for the New York Daily News
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Edwin Moses
[Class year]: 1978
[Notability]: Olympic gold medalist
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[Name]: Donn Clendenon
[Class year]: 1956
[Notability]: New York Mets Outfielder and 1969 World Series MVP
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[Name]: Harold Ellis (basketball)
[Class year]: 1992
[Notability]: former NBA player Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets, current NBA executive
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[Name]: T.B. Ellis
[Class year]: 1934
[Notability]: Former Jackson State University head football coach (1946-51) and basketball coach (1949-50)
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Caesar "Zip" Gayles
[Class year]: 1924
[Notability]: former head football coach and former head basketball coach at Langston University, member of SWAC Hall of Fame and NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Ramon Harewood
[Class year]: 2010
[Notability]: OL, Baltimore Ravens 2010
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[Name]: Issac Keys
[Class year]:
[Notability]: LB, Arizona Cardinals 2004-2005
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: John David Washington
[Class year]: 2006
[Notability]: RB, St. Louis Rams 2006, all-time leading rusher at Morehouse; former RB in the UFL; actor; son of Pauletta Washington and Oscar Award-winning actor Denzel Washington
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Ennis Cosby
[Class year]: 1992
[Notability]: son of comedian Bill Cosby
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[Name]: Joshua Packwood
[Class year]: 2008
[Notability]: first white valedictorian of Morehouse
[Reference(s)]:
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[Name]: Na'im Akbar
[Department]: Psychology
[Notability]: author, Breaking the Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery
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[Name]: Amalia Amaki
[Department]: History
[Notability]: modern and contemporary artist
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[Name]: Clayborne Carson
[Department]: History
[Notability]: Executive Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Collection; professor, Stanford University
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[Name]: Lawrence Edward Carter
[Department]: Religion
[Notability]: Dean, Martin Luther King Chapel; Fulbright Scholar; founder of the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize
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[Name]: Louis Delsarte
[Department]: Fine Arts
[Notability]: painter, muralist
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[Name]: Franklin L. Forbes
[Department]: Athletics
[Notability]: Former Morehouse College Athletic Director and basketball coach; The 6,000 seat on-campus arena, Forbes Arena, is named after him which hosted basketball preliminaries during the 1996 Summer Olympics and was the home arena to the Atlanta Glory;
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[Name]: E. Franklin Frazier
[Department]: Sociology
[Notability]: author, Black Bourgeoisie
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[Name]: Kemper Harreld
[Department]: Music
[Notability]: established the Morehouse College Glee Club
[Reference]:
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[Name]: John Hope
[Department]: President
[Notability]: first black president of Morehouse
[Reference]:
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[Name]: John Hopps, Jr.
[Department]: Physics
[Notability]: former Director, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MIT
[Reference]:
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[Name]: Edward A. Jones
[Department]: Foreign Language
[Notability]: author, A Candle In The Dark: A History of Morehouse College
[Reference]:
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[Name]: Benjamin E. Mays
[Department]: President
[Notability]: mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; established the institutions international academic reputation and gave rise to the Morehouse Mystique
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[Name]: Henry Cecil McBay
[Department]: Chemistry
[Notability]: winner of the Norton Prize in Chemistry, the Norris Award, and the Herty Award for Outstanding Contributions in Chemistry; first MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT
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[Name]: Charles Wilbert Snow
[Department]: Political Science
[Notability]: diplomat
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[Name]: Samuel Woodrow Williams
[Department]: Philosophy and Religion
[Notability]: Baptist minister, civil rights activist
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