- Michael Jackson
Michael Dwayne Jackson (born April 12, 1969 in Tangipahoa, Louisiana) is a former American professional football player who was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. A 6'4", 195 lbs. wide receiver from the University of Southern Mississippi, Jackson played in eight NFL seasons from 1991-1998 for the Browns and Baltimore Ravens. Injuries cut his career short and forced him to retire at the age of 29. In 1993, … - Bobby Jones
Dr. Bobby Jones (born September 18, 1939) is a famous gospel leader and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Henry, Tennessee, Jones is host and executive producer of cable television's only national gospel program, "Bobby Jones Gospel". He has produced programs for BET since 1980, which figure prominently in the Sunday programming on that channel. - John Hope
John Hope (June 2, 1868 - February 20, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of a white father, who was a farmer, and a black mother. Hope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1890, then taught at Brown University. After he graduated from Brown in 1894 he taught at Roger Williams University. In 1897 he married Lugenia Burns Hope, who would become a well-known social reformer. - Spencer Grammer
Spencer Grammer (born August 9 1984) is an American actress and the daughter of television actor/producer Kelsey Grammer and dance instructor Doreen Alderman. Grammer joined the cast of the long-running daytime soap opera "As The World Turns" as medical intern Lucy Montgomery. She played the role for just over six months before exiting on December 14th, 2006. - Matthew Carrington
Matthew Carrington (November 10, 1983 - February 2, 2005), was a student at California State University, Chico, who was killed during a hazing incident at the Chi Tau fraternity house. The cause of death was water intoxication. Seven men (Richard Joseph Hirth, 23; Michael Fernandes, 20; Trent Stiefvater, 21; Gabriel John Maestretti, 22; Jerry Ming Lim, 25; Carlos James DeVilla Abrille, 22; and John Paul Fickes, 20) were charged in connection with his death. - Al Green
Alexander N. "Al" Green, commonly known as Al Green, was born on September 1, 1947, and is the U.S. Representative from the Ninth Congressional District in Texas (map). Green won the Democratic primary for District 9 in Houston on March 9, 2004, a district that is largely Democratic with 37% of its population African American and 31% Hispanic - two ethnic groups that traditionally support the Democrats - and later was victorious over Republican Arlette Molina. - Charles H. Wesley
Charles Harris Wesley (December 2, 1891 - August 16,1987) was a noted African American historian, educator, writer and author. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from Fisk University in 1911 and received a Master's degree from Yale University in 1913. In 1925, Wesley became the third African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Wesley was Dean of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School at Howard University until 1942, … - Maynard Jackson
Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served three terms, two consecutive terms from 1974 until 1982 and a third term from 1990 to 1994. His grandfather was civil rights leader John Wesley Dobbs. Jackson graduated from Morehouse College in 1956 when he was only eighteen. After attending Boston University law school for a short time, he held several jobs, … - Tony Brown
William Anthony Brown (born April 11, 1933) is an American journalist, academian and businessman. He is best known as the commentator of the long running syndicated television show, Tony Brown's Journal. In 1959, he received a BA in Sociology from Wayne State University. In 1961, he received an MA in Psychiatric Social Work from Wayne State University. He is a former faculty member at Central Washington University and Federal City College. - David Scott
David Scott (born June 27 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 13th District of Georgia. - Kelly Miller
Kelly Miller (July 23, 1863 - December 29, 1939) was a mathematician, sociologist, essayist, and newspaper columnist, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. Born in Winnsboro, South Carolina in 1863, he worked his way through Howard University, then did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, the first black ever admitted to that university. Appointed professor of mathematics at Howard in 1890, … - Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903-January 9, 1946) was an African-American Romantic poet and an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance. - Joe Tiller
Joe Tiller (b. December 7, 1942 in Toledo, Ohio) has been the head football coach at Purdue University since 1997. Before coming to Purdue, Tiller was the head coach for the University of Wyoming football program. A Montana State University graduate, where he was a member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, and native of Toledo, Ohio, Tiller is known mostly for a spread offense or West Coast offense system first devised by Jack Elway. - Frederick D. Patterson
Frederick Douglass Patterson, born in Washington D.C. and orphaned at the age of two. Patterson would later become president of what is now Tuskegee University (1935-1953) and founder of the United Negro College Fund (1944, "UNCF"). In 1987, President Ronald Reagan awarded Dr. Patterson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In 1933, Patterson received his PH.D from Cornell University. - Joseph C. Phillips
Joseph Connor Phillips (born January 17, 1962 in Denver, Colorado) is an African American actor. He is the son of Dr. Clarence Phillips, a distinguished Denver pediatrician. Phillips played Martin Kendall on the NBC sitcom, "The Cosby Show" from 1989 to 1991. A little side fact from the Cosby Show is that Mr. Phillips played a character named Daryl on the second season of the show. Daryl was the man that Dr. Huxtable wanted his daughter, Sondra, … - Harry E. Johnson
Harry E. Johnson (b. in St. Louis, Missouri, United States), is a practicing attorney in Houston, Texas, and serves as an adjunct professor of law at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He received his undergraduate from Xavier University of Louisiana and his J.D. from Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Johnson was the 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha, … - George Banta
George Banta (1857-1935) was the founder of the George Banta Company (later the Banta Corporation) and an influential figure in the development of the collegiate Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority. Born in 1857 in Covington, Kentucky, Banta attended Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, where he became an active member of Phi Delta Theta. After graduating in 1876, he was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1878. - Jim Risch
James E. "Jim" Risch (born May 3, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former Governor of Idaho. He succeeded to the office on May 26, 2006 when his predecessor, Dirk Kempthorne, resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Risch is a rancher, attorney, and politician from Ada County. He was the first Catholic to become governor of the State of Idaho. Currently he is Lieutenant Governor of Idaho. - William H. Willimon
William H. Willimon (born May 15, 1946) is a bishop in the United Methodist Church in the USA, currently serving in North Alabama. He is best known as a theologian, writer, former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, and as one of America's best known preachers. He is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Bishop Willimon received a B.A. from Wofford College in 1968, an M. Div. from Yale Divinity School in 1971, and an S.T.D. from Emory University in 1973. - Fritz Pollard
Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard was the first African American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard along with Bobby Marshall were the first two African American players in the NFL in 1920. Pollard graduated from Lane Tech high school in Chicago where he ran track. Pollard played college football at Brown University and later played professional football with the Akron Pros, the team he would lead to the NFL (APFA) championship in 1920. - Mike Mansfield
Michael Joseph Mansfield (March 16, 1903 - October 5, 2001) was an American Democratic politician and the longest-serving Majority Leader of the United States Senate, serving from 1961 to 1977. Born in New York City to Irish Catholic immigrants, he was raised in Montana, where he graduated from the University of Montana and was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Mansfield represented the state of Montana throughout his political career. - Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse was a United States Senator from Oregon from 1945 until 1969. He made a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953 protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest filibuster in Senate history. Morse was born to a farming family in Verona, Wisconsin, who imbued the political beliefs of Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. in their children. - Howard Schnellenberger
Howard Schnellenberger (born March 16, 1934) is an American football coach at both the professional and college level. He is currently married to Mrs. Beverlee Schnellenberger and is head coach of Florida Atlantic University. He previously held head coaching positions with the University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, University of Miami, and the Baltimore Colts. He has also worked extensively as an assistant coach at the college and pro levels, … - Warren A. Cole
Warren Albert Cole was the founder of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, which is one of the largest social fraternities in the United States. Cole was born in Swansea, Massachusetts. He attended high school at both Taunton High and Fall River High School. While there, he was involved in a fraternity which may have shaped his future views for a collegiate organization. - George Low
George Michael Low, born George Wilhelm Low on June 10, 1926, near Vienna, Austria, was a NASA administrator. His parents were Artur and Gertrude Burger Low, small business people in Austria. With the German occupation of Austria in 1938, four years after Artur Low's death, his family emigrated to the United States. In 1943, Low graduated from Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, New York, … - Jeff Feagles
Jeffrey Allan Feagles (born March 7, 1966) is a punter currently playing for the New York Giants of the National Football League. 2006 marked Feagles' 19th NFL season. Prior to his affiliation with the New York Giants, he played for the New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks. He played his collegiate football at the University of Miami, joining the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity during his time as an undergraduate. - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - Chuck Stone
Chuck Stone (born July 21, 1924) is a former Tuskegee Airman, an American newspaper editor, columnist, and professor of journalism. In the 1940s, he was the first African-American undergraduate in several decades at Wesleyan University, graduating in the class of 1948. He was the first president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ, 1975-1977). According to his brief biography on the NABJ site, "Because of his reputation for integrity, … - Rayford Logan
Rayford Wittingham Logan (January 7, 1897 - November 4, 1982) was an African American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the NAACP on international affairs. In 1932, Logan was appointed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet. - E. W. Kelley
E.W. "Ed" Kelley is considered the "modern day" founder of Steak n Shake, a chain of sit-down, old-fashioned style restaurants known for their Steakburgers and hand-dipped milkshakes. In 1981, E.W. Kelley & Associates, a group led by E.W. Kelley, bought controlling interest in Steak n Shake, and grew the company from a small chain to the more than 450 location chain it is today (2006). - Samuel Pierce
Samuel Riley "Silent Sam" Pierce, Jr. (September 8, 1922 in Glen Cove, New York - November 19, 2000) was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pierce was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Pierce was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans and Alpha Phi Omega, National Service Fraternity. - Howard Baker
Howard Henry Baker, Jr. (born November 15, 1925) is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan. Known in Washington, D.C. as the "Great Conciliator," Baker is often regarded as one of the most successful Senators in terms of brokering compromises, enacting legislation, and maintaining civility. - Roland S. Martin
Roland S. Martin is an African-American author, syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate, and radio talk show host. He is also author of the book, "Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America" (2002, ISBN 0-9719107-0-7). He is the former executive editor of the "Chicago Defender". Martin hosts a morning radio talk show on WVON-AM in Chicago. - Phog Allen
Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen, D.O. (November 18, 1885 – September 16, 1974) was an American collegiate basketball coach known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching." His basketball career got off to an auspicious start as a University of Kansas letterman under Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. Born in Jamesport, Missouri, Allen coached at the University of Kansas, Baker University, Haskell Institute, … - Jeff Taylor
Jeff Taylor is a founder of the online jobs site Monster.com. He attended UMass Amherst and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He worked as a DJ before working on the startup in the mid 90s. In August 2005, he left Monster to found a new venture called Eons, Inc., a website for people over age 50. - Lance Alworth
Lance Dwight Alworth (born August 3, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is a former American football wide receiver. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At the University of Arkansas, the six-foot (1.83 m), 180-pound (82 kg) Alworth was a running back who led all colleges in punt return yardage in 1960 and 1961. He also was a track star: running the 100 and 220 yard dashes (9.6 seconds and 21.3 seconds) and long jump. - Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sportscaster for ESPN, most visibly as an anchor on "SportsCenter". Scott attended Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC and later the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) where he was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and on-air talent at student-run radio station WXYC. Scott graduated from UNC in 1987 with a bachelor of arts in speech communication. - John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin (born ca. 1953) was one of two Port Authority Police survivors of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and is the subject of an Oliver Stone film released in 2006. McLoughlin attended College at the State University of New York at Oswego, he was a member of the Sigma Tau Chi Fraternity. The film "World Trade Center" retells the story of McLoughlin (played by Nicolas Cage) and William Jimeno. - Mike Powell
Michael ("Mike") Anthony Powell is an American Track and Field athlete, and the holder of the long jump world record. Mike Powell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo), he broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches), leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4½ in). The world record still stands. - Scott Wolf
Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance. He also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Wolf is known for his role as Bailey Salinger on "Party of Five". On both "Everwood" and the short-lived "The Nine", …
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