I don't know what you been told, but the baddest brothers here were the Black and Old Gold!!! Others may brag and some try to boast but the Alphas are the ones that do the most.
Activists:
Martin Luther King Jr. : Civil Rights activist
Julius L. Chambers : NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Lester Granger : National Urban League
Frederick Douglas : Anti-Slavery activist
W.E.B. Dubois : Writer, historian, civil rights activist
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
William Gray : United Negro College Fund, businessman
Franklin Williams : Phelps-Stokes Fund
Education/Scholarship:
James Check : Howard University
Dr. Ronald J. Temple : Chancellor City Colleges of Chicago
John Hope Franklin : Historian
E.Franklin Frazier : Sociologist
Dennis Kimbro : Author
Frederick Patterson : Founder, UNCF
Cornell West : Author
Military:
Roscoe Cartwright : General, AUS
Samuel Gravel : Admiral, USN
Edward Honor : Major General, AUS
Brig. Gen. Fred A. Gorden
Adm. Samuel Gravely
Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker
Maj. Gen. Edward Honor
Maj. Gen. James McCall
Com. 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
Government/Politics:
Ronald Brown : Former Secretary of Commerce
David Dinkins : Former mayor of New York
Willie Brown : Mayor of San Francisco
Ernest Finney : South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
Rev. Emmanuel Cleaver : Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Earnest "Dutch" Morial : 1st Black mayor of New Orleans
Marc Morial : Present Mayor of New Orleans
Maynard Jackson : Former Mayor of Atlanta
Andrew Young : Former Mayor of Atlanta
Marion Barry : Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Chaka Fattah : Pennsylvania Congressman
Business:
Johnson H. Johnson : Entrepreneur
Doug Bush
Entertainment:
Duke Ellington : Jazz musician
Tony Brown : Journalist/Producer
Countee Cullen : Poet
Donny Hathaway : Musician
Eugene Jackson : National Black Network
Chuck Stone : Philadelphia Daily News
Keenan Ivory Wayans : Comedian, producer
Daryl Bell : Actor
Lionel Richie : Singer
Stuart Scott : Sportscenter Anchormen
Sports:
Jackie Robinson : First Black Man in Major League Baseball
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
