Wilberforce University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Name Class year Notability References
Victoria Gray Adams pioneering civil rights activist
Regina M. Anderson playwright, librarian, and member of the Harlem Renaissance
Helen Elsie Austin 1938 U.S. Foreign Service Officer
Myron (Tiny) Bradshaw American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, pianist, and drummer
Hallie Quinn Brown 1873 educator, writer and activist
Floyd H. Flake U.S. Congressman, Wilberforce-President
Frank Foster (musician) American musician; member of the Count Basie Orchestra
John R. Fox Recipient of the Medal of Honor
Raymond V. Haysbert business executive and civil rights leader
James H. McGee city commissioner and first African-American mayor of Dayton, Ohio
Arnett "Ace" Mumford 1924 former college football coach at Southern University from 1936 to 1961. He also coached at Jarvis Christian College, Bishop College, Texas College. Member of College Football Hall of Fame
Leontyne Price Opera singer and first African-American prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera
George Russell American jazz composer and theorist
William Grant Still composer and conductor: the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, and the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company
Theophilus Gould Steward 1881 U.S. Army chaplain and Buffalo Soldier
Ossian Sweet African-American doctor notable for self-defense in 1925 against a white mob's attempt to force him out of his Detroit neighborhood, and acquittal at trial.
Ben Webster American jazz musician
William Julius Wilson American sociologist and Harvard University professor
Milton Wright 1926 Economist
Mark Wilson 1982 entrepreneur

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