Mordecai Johnson ’11*
Former President, Howard University, Washington, D.C., (first African-American to serve in this position)
Robert E. Johnson ’48
Former Executive Editor and Associate Publisher, JET magazine
Leroy Keith Jr. ’61
President Emeritus, Morehouse College; Chairman of the Board, Carson Products; former President, Morehouse College
Thomas Kilgore Jr. ’31
Pastor Emeritus, Second Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr. ’48*
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader
Shelton “Spike” Lee ’79
Filmmaker and President, 40 Acres & A Mule
Reginald C. Lindsay ’67
U.S. federal judge, Massachusetts
Michael L. Lomax ’68
President, Dillard University; former President, The National Faculty
Robert L. Mallett ’79
Former deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; senior vice
president, Pfizer Corporation; president, Pfizer Foundation
Walter E. Massey ’58
Former President, Morehouse College; former Director, National Science Foundation; former Dean, College at Brown University; former Provost, University of California System
Richard I. McKinney ’31
Former President, Storer College; Chairman, Philosophy Department, Morgan State University
Charles David “C.D.” Moody ’78
President and CEO, Moody Construction
Edwin C. Moses ’78
Olympic gold medalist and financial consultant
Otis Moss Jr. ’56
Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio; Chairman, Morehouse College Board of Trustees
James M. Nabrit ’23*
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; second African-American president of Howard University
Samuel M. Nabrit ’25
Former member, Atomic Energy Commission; former president of Texas Southern University, first African American to receive the Ph.D. from Brown University
Bill G. Nunn III ’76
stage and film actor
Major R. Owens ’56
Retired U.S. congressman (New York)
Roderic I. Pettigrew ’72
Physician and nuclear physicist, National Institutes of Health
David Satcher ’63
Director, National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine; former U.S. Surgeon General; former president, Meharry and the Morehouse School of Medicine
Maceo K. Sloan ’71
Chairman and CEO, Sloan Financial Group Inc.
Louis W. Sullivan ’54
Founder and former president, Morehouse School of Medicine; former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Howard Thurman ’23*
internationally known theologian and author
Nima A. Warfield ’94
First African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically black college or university
Charles Vert Willie ’48
Distinguished Professor of Education and Urban Studies, Harvard University
John Silvanus Wilson Jr. ’79
11th President, Morehouse College; former executive director, White House Initiative on HBCUs
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