Notable Alumni
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Gray Adams | pioneering civil rights activist | ||
| Regina M. Anderson | playwright, librarian, and member of the Harlem Renaissance | ||
| Helen Elsie Austin | 1938 | U.S. Foreign Service Officer | |
| Myron (Tiny) Bradshaw | American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, pianist, and drummer | ||
| Hallie Quinn Brown | 1873 | educator, writer and activist | |
| Floyd H. Flake | U.S. Congressman, Wilberforce-President | ||
| Frank Foster (musician) | American musician; member of the Count Basie Orchestra | ||
| John R. Fox | Recipient of the Medal of Honor | ||
| Raymond V. Haysbert | business executive and civil rights leader | ||
| James H. McGee | city commissioner and first African-American mayor of Dayton, Ohio | ||
| Arnett "Ace" Mumford | 1924 | former college football coach at Southern University from 1936 to 1961. He also coached at Jarvis Christian College, Bishop College, Texas College. Member of College Football Hall of Fame | |
| Leontyne Price | Opera singer and first African-American prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera | ||
| George Russell | American jazz composer and theorist | ||
| William Grant Still | composer and conductor: the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, and the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company | ||
| Theophilus Gould Steward | 1881 | U.S. Army chaplain and Buffalo Soldier | |
| Ossian Sweet | African-American doctor notable for self-defense in 1925 against a white mob's attempt to force him out of his Detroit neighborhood, and acquittal at trial. | ||
| Ben Webster | American jazz musician | ||
| William Julius Wilson | American sociologist and Harvard University professor | ||
| Milton Wright | 1926 | Economist | |
| Mark Wilson | 1982 | entrepreneur |
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