Notable Alumni
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Bernard Allen | 1962 | Educator and long-time lobbyist for the North Carolina Association of Educators; North Carolina House member, 2003–2006 | |
Hannah Diggs Atkins | first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1968–1980) | ||
Luther Barnes | 1976 | Gospel music recording artist | |
Ralph Campbell, Jr. | former North Carolina State Auditor; the first African-American elected to that position in North Carolina | ||
Travis Cherry | Grammy Nominated Music Producer | ||
Anna Julia Cooper | writer, educator, one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD. | ||
Bessie and Sadie Delany | Bessie, 1911 Sadie, 1910 |
African Americans who published their best-selling memoir, Having Our Say, at the ages of 102 and 104, respectively | |
Henry Beard Delany | first African-American Episcopal Bishop | ||
Ruby Butler DeMesme | 1969 | former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Installations and Environment | |
Ramon Gittens | Sprinter at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
Robert X. Golphin | Actor "The Great Debaters" | ||
Trevor Graham | former track & field coach | ||
Alex Hall | former NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals, and New York Giants and currently in the Canadian Football League | ||
Ike Lassiter | the first NFL player ever from St. Augustine's College | ||
William McBryar | Medal of Honor recipient | ||
Angelique Monét | 1998 | Former Ms. Black South Carolina, multi-media talent, and world's only stage actress ventriloquist, also appointed nobility title Princess of Aquitaine]] | |
Hon. James E.C. Perry | 1966 | Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida | |
Antonio Pettigrew | 2000 Olympic gold medalist in the men's 4 × 400 meter relay for the United States. He also won the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. |
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