Activists:
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Activist
- Julius L. Chambers: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Lester Granger: National Urban League
- Frederick Douglass: Anti-Slavery Activist
- W.E.B. Dubois: Writer, Historian, Civil Rights Activist
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: Civil Rights Activist
- Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice
- Paul Robeson: Activist, Scholar, Singer, Football Player
- Dick Gregory: Activist
- William Gray: United Negro College Fund, Businessman
- Franklin Williams: Phelps-Stokes Fund
Education/Scholarship:
- James Check: Howard University
- Thomas W. Cole, Jr.: President, Clark-Atlanta University
- William B. DeLauder: President, Delaware St. University
- John Hope Franklin: Historian
- E. Franklin Frazier: Sociologist
- Dennis Kimbro: Author
- Frederick Patterson: Founder, UNCF
- Dr. Ronald J. Temple: Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
- Cornell West: Author
- Andrew Zawacki: Rhodes Scholar, Author
- Dr. Raymond W. Cannon: 1st Edition, Sphinx Magazine
- Norm Francis: President, Xavier University