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- Hon. Shirley Clarke Franklin – 1st female Mayor of Atlanta
- Hon. Kamala Harris - First woman and African-American and Indian-American elected Attorney General of California
- Ms. Shauntay Hinton – Miss USA 2002
- Ms.
Debbie Allen – dancer,
choreographer, director, actress
- Hon.
Edward Brooke – 1st
African-American elected to
the U.S. Senate
- Dr.
Kenneth Clark- psychologist
- Hon.
Elijah Cummings – United
States Congress
- Dr.
Ossie Davis – producer,
director, actor
- Hon.
David Dinkins – 1st
African-American Mayor of
the City of New York
- Hon.
Mike Espy – 1st African-American
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
- Mrs.
Zora Neal Hurston –
author
- Vernon
Jordan, Esq. – Presidential
Advisor, Senior Managing Director
Lazard Freres and Company
and Senior Counsel, Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld,
LLP
- Hon.
Sharon Pratt Kelly –
1st African-American woman
elected mayor of a major city
- Ms.
Roxie Roker Kravitz –
Obie Award-winning actress
- Dr.
LaSalle Leffall – Surgeon,
1st African-American President
of the American College of
Surgeons, 1st African-American
President of the American
Cancer Society
- Hon.
Thurgood Marshall –
1st African-American U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
- Ms.
Toni Morrison – Nobel
Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning
novelist
- Ms.
Jessye Norman – Concert
and Opera Singer
- Ms.
Phylicia Rashad – actress
- Mr.
Kwame Ture – civil rights
activist; founder of the All-African
People’s Revolutionary
Party
- Hon.
L. Douglas Wilder –
1st African-American elected
U.S. Governor (VA); former
Mayor, City of Richmond, VA
- Hon.
Albert Wynn – 1st African-American
elected to Congress from Prince
Georges and Montgomery Counties,
Maryland
- Hon.
Andrew Young – 1st African-American
United Nations Ambassador
and former Mayor of Atlanta
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