| Name |
Original chapter |
Notability |
References |
| Clifford Alexander, Jr. |
|
First African American Secretary of the Army |
|
| John P. Davis |
|
Lawyer, Publisher, Civil rights activist |
|
| Roger Gregory |
Upsilon Nu |
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
|
| Nathan Hare |
Phi Psi |
The first coordinator of a black studies program; Founding publisher of The Black Scholar |
|
| William H. Hastie |
Alpha Psi |
First Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands |
|
| Benjamin Hooks |
Chi Psi |
Executive Director of NAACP,Civil Rights Activist, Minister |
|
| Jesse Jackson, Jr. |
Nu Pi Graduate Chapter Joliet, IL |
Representative from Illinois |
|
| Jesse Jackson, Sr. |
Pi Psi |
Founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,Civil Rights Activist, Democratic Presidential Nominee, Minister |
|
| Hank Johnson |
Kappa Alpha Alpha |
Representative from Georgia |
|
| Jack Johnson |
|
Executive of Prince George's County |
|
| Vernon Jordan |
Zeta Phi |
|
|
| Clarence Lightner |
Tau Psi |
First popularly elected Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina and the first African American elected mayor of a metropolitan Southern city. |
|
| Kendrick Meek |
Upsilon Psi |
Representative from Florida |
|
| Kweisi Mfume |
Grand Chapter
(Special Intake) |
Former President/CEO of NAACP, Congressman |
|
| Khalid Abdul Muhammad |
Theta Sigma |
National Representative for the Nation of Islam & National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party |
|
| Bayard Rustin |
Upsilon |
leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights. |
|
| David Satcher |
Psi |
Surgeon General of the United States |
|
| Walter Washington |
Alpha |
First Home-Rule Mayor of the District of Columbia |
|
| George Weaver |
|
Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs |
|
| Robert C. Weaver |
Kappa Omicron |
first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
|
| Lawrence Douglas Wilder |
Zeta |
Governor of Virginia |
|
| Roy Wilkins |
Xi |
President NAACP |
|