Notable Members
- George Washington Buckner, U.S. minister to Liberia, 1913-1915.
- Byron Cage
- James E. Clyburn US Representative (D-SC)
- LL Cool J
- Ernest Green - member of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas
- Alcee Hastings, US House of Representatives (D-FL)
- Arsenio Hall
- Gwen Ifill
- Vernon Jordan, noted civil rights leader and author
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick US Representative (D-MI)
- John Legend
- Ray Lewis
- Delroy Lindo
- Dr. Susan McKinney Stewart
- Gregory Meeks, US Representative (D-NY)
- Rosa Parks
- P. B. S. Pinchback, first African-American Governor (R-LA)
- A. Philip Randolph
- Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African-American Senator (R-MS)
- Rodney Slater - Secretary of Transportation in Clinton Administration
- Cicely Tyson
- Billy Dee Williams
- Stephanie Diana Wilson
- Dave Winfield
- Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader & Executive Director of the NAACP
- Charlotte Maxeke
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