| Name |
Original chapter |
Notability |
References |
| Dr. Sunday A. Adesuyi |
Alpha Sigma (Washington, D.C.) |
Sits on the NCAA Division II Management Council. Held the First-Vice President position for CIAA Conference. Serving as Interim Vice- President for Academic Affairs. Dean of Natural Science and Mathematics Department, Saint Pauls College |
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| Alger Boswell |
Beta (Wiley College) |
First to head the Mathematics Department at Tennessee State University. Became Vice President of the College from 1951–1964 Help found the Zeta Alpha Chapter 1931 Tennessee State University |
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| George Washington Carver |
Gamma Sigma (Tuskegee, Alabama) |
World famous scientist, botanist, educator and inventor whose studies and teaching revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States; most famous for research into and promotion of peanuts and sweet potatoes |
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| Dr. Frank Chambers |
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First African-American to teach at Columbia University Dental School |
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| Frank Marshall Davis |
Delta (Kansas State University) |
Outstanding writer, author and journalist, during the Harlem Renaissance who made a tremendous impact on African American Literature and Writings |
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| Matthew W. Dogan |
Gamma Psi (Rust College) |
First Black College President, Wiley College |
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| Dr. Edgar Draper |
Zeta Sigma (Baltimore, Maryland) |
Former President of William V.S. Tubman Teachers College in Monrovia, Liberia. Former President of Borough of Manhattan Community College- CUNY |
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| Dr. Israel Dunn, Jr. |
Xi (Grambing State University) |
Former President of Arkansas Baptist College- |
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| A. Babs Fafunwa |
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Former Nigerian Federal Minister of Education and Youth Development; educationist, scholar |
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| Dr. Dudley E. Flood |
Eta Sigma (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
World-renowned speaker on leadership and education |
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| Dr. Willie Gilchrist |
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Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University |
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| Dr. Elmer A. Henderson |
Gamma (Morgan State) |
Appointed in 1945 as the assistant superintendent of the Baltimore Public School System. The first African American to hold the position |
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| Dr. Edison O. Jackson |
Alpha (Howard University) |
Former President of Medgar Evers College, CUNY |
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| James Weldon Johnson |
Alpha (Howard University) |
American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, professor, and early civil rights activist; famous works include "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" and the Black National Anthem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" |
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| Dr. Ralph W.E. Jones |
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Former President of Grambling State University |
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| Dr. Jonn A. Kenny |
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Medical director at Tuskegee Institute from 1902- 1924. Director of Community hospital of Newark, New Jersey 1924- 1939. Founder of John A. Andrew Clinical Society. Founder and first editor of "journal of National Medical Association" |
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| Alain LeRoy Locke |
Alpha |
First Black Rhodes Scholar, writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts; unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance", Bahá'í |
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| Dr. Arthur N.S. Mcunu, Jr. |
Alpha Lambda (Xavier University) |
Director of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at Howard University School of Medicine |
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| Dr. Horace Mitchell |
Iota Alpha Sigma (Bay Area, California) |
President, California State University, Bakersfield |
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| Dr. Parlett Moore |
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Founded the Sigma Beta Club, Second President of Coppin State University, 20th Past President of Phi Beta Sigma |
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| Dr. Leonard F. Morse |
Alpha |
President of Edward Waters College, Co-founder of Phi Beta Sigma |
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| Robert Russa Moton |
Gamma Sigma |
Second President of Tuskegee University |
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| Dr. George Leon Netterville, Jr. |
Rho (Southern University) |
Third president of Southern University |
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| Dr. Rod Paige |
Alpha Beta (Jackson State University) |
7th United States Secretary of Education (1st African American), former Jackson State University Head Football Coach, former Texas Southern University Head Football Coach |
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| Dr. Albert Roberts |
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First Minority to graduate with a PhD in Psychology from Emory University, Former Dean of Howard Psychology Department, Public Speaker, and recognized leader in the psychology field for children and young adults |
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| Dr. Samuel Robinson |
Epsilon Beta Sigma (Louisville. Kentucky) |
President of The Lincoln Foundation, Inc |
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| Dr. William Sherman Savage |
Alpha (Howard University) |
Sigma Historian and 1st black man to receive a degree from the University of Oregon, Past National President of Sigma and Lincoln University of Missouri |
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| Dr. David Swinton |
Beta Chi Sigma (Columbia, South Carolina) |
President of Benedict College |
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| Dr. George D. Thorne |
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Led fight for inclusion of Negro Surgeons in the American College of Surgeons, Founder of Mount Morris Park hospital in New York City |
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| Dr. Cornelius V. Troupe |
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Second President of Fort Valley State University and later President of Morris Brown College |
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| Dr. Thomas W. Turner |
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Civil rights activist, biologist, and educator |
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| Dr. Lawrence V. Wells |
Nu Chapter |
Noted Michigan Educator and Director of Charter Schools Ferris State University |
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| Dr. Richard A. Williams |
Honorary |
Author, professor and Founder of the Association of Black Cardiologists. He is also the President and Founder of The Minority Health Institute and named one of the 15 African American Pioneers in Cardiology. |
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