| Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
| Tevester Anderson |
|
Jackson State University Tigers men's basketball head coach (2003– ) |
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| Al Attles |
1960 |
former NBA player, former NBA head coach, and current vice president and assistant general manager of the Golden State Warriors |
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| Warren Ballentine |
|
Attorney and Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host |
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| Elvin Bethea |
|
former NFL defensive lineman for the Houston Oilers ,member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
|
| The A&T Four |
1963 |
Ezell A. Blair Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain, then-student Civil Rights activists who started the major Sit-In Movement of the 1960s that began at a Greensboro, N.C. Woolsworth |
|
| Dwaine Board |
1979 |
NFL player and current NFL Defensive Line coach |
|
| Walter P. Carter |
|
Civil Rights Activist |
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| Lou Donaldson |
|
jazz musician |
|
| Joe Dudley |
|
Founder of Dudley Products Inc. |
|
| Curtis Deloatch |
2003 |
former NFL defensive back |
|
| Hugh Evans |
|
former NBA referee |
|
| James A. Hefner |
1961 |
Renowned Economist and University President |
|
| Taraji P. Henson |
1988 |
actress |
|
| Maurice Hicks |
2002 |
former NFL running back |
|
| Janice Bryant Howroyd |
|
Founder and CEO of ACT-1 Group |
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| Jesse Jackson |
1965 |
Civil rights activist, Founder and CEO of the RainbowPUSH Coalition and 1984 and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate that earned 7 million votes |
|
| Jesse Jackson, Jr. |
1987 |
Congressman (D-Illinois) |
|
| Jonathan Jackson |
|
Civil rights activist, businessman and professor |
|
| Robert Jackson (American football coach) |
1950 |
former NFL player, college football coach and educator. In 1950 he was first player from an HBCU to be drafted in the NFL. |
|
| Jamal Jones |
|
former NFL wide receiver |
|
| Henry Frye |
|
First African American Justice and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, First African American member of the North Carolina General Assembly in the 20th Century |
|
| Ronald McNair |
1971 |
NASA Astronaut, died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986 |
|
| Mel Phillips |
|
former NFL player and current Miami Dolphins coach |
|
| J. D. Smith (running back) |
1955 |
former NFL running back |
|
| Edolphus Towns |
|
Congressman (D-New York) |
|
| Jake Wheatley |
|
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives |
|
| Terrence J |
2004 |
Radio & TV Personality;BET's Host of 106 & Park |
|
| George Small |
1979 |
former NFL player and current Florida A&M Associate Head Coach/Defensive Line coach |
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