Notable Alumni
- Katherine Johnson, African-American scientist, who made significant contributions to America's aeronautics and space exploration for NASA. Her work included calculating the paths of the first American space flights around planet Earth.
- Chu Berry, jazz tenor saxophonist
- Antoine Fuqua, writer and director of various movies including Training Day, starring Denzel Washington
- Earl Lloyd, first African-American to play in the NBA
- Lou Myers, actor and theatrical director, played Vernon Gaines in A Different World
- Will Robinson, first African-American Division I basketball coach and NFL scout
- Leon Sullivan - Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist, longtime General Motors board member, and an anti-Apartheid activist
- Butch Miles, jazz drummer and a professor in the School of Music at Texas State University-San Marcos
- Harriet Elizabeth Byrd, first African-American to serve in the Wyoming Legislature
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