Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy boxing champion
John H. Johnson, publisher EBONY and Jet magazines
Carl B. Stokes, first Black elected mayor, Cleveland, OH
Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder/publisher CHICAGO DEFENDER
Richard Allen, founder/first bishop AME Church
Matthew Henson, explorer
Daniel "Chappie" James, general U.S. Air Force
James Forten, abolitionist/manufacturer
Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist
Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac
William C. Handy, composer
Augustus F. Hawkins. U.S. Congressman California
Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/composer
Benjamin L. Hooks, Former Executive Director NAACP
Benjamin Mays, educator/former president Atlanta University
Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympic champion
A. Phillip Randolph, founder/ first president, International Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters
Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams, actor/ comedian
Harry A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian
* Scottie Pippen, #33, Chicago Bulls / Forward Rev. Jesse Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 88, Chicago, Illinois
A. Leon Higginbothm, Jr. 33', Campbell-Wash-Joppa Lodge No 37 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bro. Emanuel Cleaver of Eureka Lodge No. 170, Kansas City Missouri Mayor
Bro. John H. Johnson 33, publisher, chairman and CEO of Johnson
Publishing Company
civil rights leader, Rev. Al Sharpton under the Jurisdiction of New York
former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Bro. Andrew Young, St. James
Lodge No. 4, Atlanta, Georgia
Bro. Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of the NAACP and a member of Mount
Olive Lodge No. 25, Baltimore, Maryland
Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) of Joppa Lodge No. 55, New York
NAACP National Chairman Bro. Julian Bond of St. James Lodge No. 4,
Atlanta
M.W. Samuel T. Daniels Grand Master of Maryland for three decades
Bro. Dwight Evans - PA State Representative (MWPHGL of PA - Star in
the East Lodge No. 55 F&AM)
Bro. John Street - Past President of the Philadelphia City Council
(MWPHGL of PA - Philadelphia Lodge #74)
Bro. Wilson Goode - Immed. Past & 1st Black Mayor of Philadelphia
(MWPHGL of PA - Sons of Light #120). John Street, Mayor of Philadelphia - (Philadelphia Lodge #74, MWPHGL of Pa.) Michael C. Watson President & CEO of The Absalom Jones Foundation - (Philadelphia Lodge #74, MWPHGL of Pa.) Congressman Chaka Fattah -(Light of Elmwood Lodge #45 MWPHGL of Pa.)
State Representative Vincent Hughes, Mt. Lebanon Lodge #9 (MWPHGL of Pa.)