| Name |
Original chapter |
Notability |
References |
| Herman Branson |
Beta Gamma |
President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; Sickle cell physicist |
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| James P. Brawley |
Alpha Phi |
President of Clark College |
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| Calvin Burnett |
Delta Lambda |
President of Coppin State University |
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| Julius Chambers |
Gamma Beta |
Attorney who argued in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University |
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| James Cheek |
Beta Rho |
President of Howard University |
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| Thomas W. Cole, Jr. |
Alpha Sigma |
First President of Clark Atlanta University, President of West Virginia State University, Interim Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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| Thomas W. Cole, Sr. |
Alpha Sigma |
President of Wiley College; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha |
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| Matthew Davage |
Alpha Phi |
President of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University |
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| William B. Delauder |
Beta Alpha |
President of Delaware State University |
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| James Douglas |
Delta Theta |
President of Texas Southern University |
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| John Malcus Ellison |
Gamma |
First African American President of Virginia Union University1941 |
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| Floyd H. Flake |
Zeta Gamma Lambda |
Former US Congressman from New York; President of Wilberforce University; Pastor Greater Allen Cathedral of New York |
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| Ernest A. Finney, Jr. |
Delta Alpha |
Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University |
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| Luther H. Foster, Jr. |
Beta Gamma |
Fourth President of Tuskegee University |
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| Luther H. Foster, Sr. |
"unknown" |
President of Virginia State University |
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| Norman Francis |
Sigma Lambda |
President of Xavier University; President of Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient |
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| Robert Michael Franklin, Jr. |
Eta Lambda |
President of Morehouse College |
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| James Gavin |
Gamma Mu |
President of Morehouse School of Medicine |
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| Hugh Gloster |
Alpha Rho |
President of Morehouse College |
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| George Gore, Jr. |
Tau Lambda |
Fifth President of Florida A&M University; Interim President of Fisk University; Founder of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society |
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| Cornelius Henderson |
Alpha Phi |
President of Gammon Theological Seminary |
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| Charles Hines |
Beta |
President of Prairie View A&M University; Major General |
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| Ernest Holloway |
Beta Kappa |
14th President of Langston University |
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| John Hope |
Eta Lambda |
First Black President of Morehouse College; President of Atlanta University; Co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient |
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| Freeman A. Hrabowski III |
Gamma Iota |
President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; social activist |
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| Frederick Humphries |
Beta Nu |
Eighth President of Florida A&M University |
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| Charles S. Johnson |
Theta |
Editor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk University |
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| Walter M. Kimbrough |
Zeta Pi |
President of Philander Smith College |
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| Raphael Lanier |
Mu Lambda |
United States Ambassador to Liberia; First President of Texas Southern University |
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| Thomas F. Law |
Delta Rho |
First President of Saint Paul's College |
|
| John H. Lewis |
Zeta |
President of Morris Brown College |
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| John Middleton |
Nu Eta Lambda |
President of Morris Brown College |
|
| Luna Mishoe |
Alpha Psi Lambda |
President of Delaware State University |
|
| Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. |
Beta |
First President of Huston-Tillotson College |
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| Frederick D. Patterson |
Alpha Nu |
Third President Tuskegee University; Co-founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient |
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| Benjamin Payton |
Beta Delta |
Fifth President of Tuskegee University |
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| Henry Ponder |
Beta Kappa |
President of Talladega College, Fisk University and Benedict College; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice-chairman World Policy Council |
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| Earl Richardson |
Delta Nu |
President of Morgan State University |
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| John B. Slaughter |
Kappa Tau |
President of University of Maryland and Occidental College; First African American Director of the National Science Foundation |
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| Louis Wade Sullivan |
Alpha Rho |
Secretary of Health and Human Services; Co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine |
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| Ronald Temple |
Delta Gamma Lambda |
President of City Colleges of Chicago |
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| Walter Washington |
Gamma Upsilon |
President of Alcorn State University; 24th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha |
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| Charles H. Wesley |
Zeta |
President of Central State University; President of Wilberforce University; Executive Director and President of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH); 14th General President and Historian of Alpha Phi Alpha |
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| Sidney David Williams |
Beta Zeta |
Fourth President of Elizabeth City State University |
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