A Few Good Men

* Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

  • * Alex Haley, author
  • * Booker T. Washington, educator/founder Tuskegee Institute
  • * Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman New York
  • * Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman Ohio
  • * William "Count" Basie, orchestra leader/composer
  • * Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole, American pianist and singer
  • * W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author/historian
  • * Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, orchestra leader/composer
  • Medger Wiley Evers, civil rights leader
  • * James Herbert "Eubie" Blake, composer/pianist
  • Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta
  • Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California
  • 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.)

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