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

Hon. Shirley Clarke Franklin – 1st female Mayor of Atlanta

Ms. Shauntay Hinton – Miss USA 2002

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