Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Patricia Bath, M.D. |
1968 (Medicine) |
ophthalmologist; first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention |
|
Alphonso Berry, M.D. |
1988 (Medicine) |
Detroit area physician who pleaded guilty to $13.2 million Medicare fraud scheme |
[3][4] |
David Blackwell, Ph.D. |
faculty, not alumnus |
first African-American elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences |
|
Beth A. Brown, Ph.D. |
1991 |
NASA astrophysicist; first African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan's Department of Astronomy |
[5] |
Marjorie Lee Browne, Ph.D. |
1935 |
educator, one of the first African-American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics in the U.S. |
|
Mamie Clark, Ph.D. |
1940 |
Howard M.A., Columbia Ph.D., educator and psychologist; with husband Kenneth Clark, conducted the "doll research" for the Brown vs. Board of Education case |
|
Alexander Darnes, M.D. |
1880 |
born into slavery; owned by Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith; second African-American physician in Florida, first African-American physician in Jacksonville, Florida |
|
Cheick Modibo Diarra |
|
astrophysicist; former director of education and public outreach, NASA's Mars Exploration Program;[6] former chairman of Microsoft Africa;[7] former acting Malian prime minister (2012)[8] |
|
Lena Frances Edwards, M.D. |
|
physician (obstetrics and gynecology) and humanitarian; received U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) |
|
Roselyn P. Epps, M.D. |
1951, 1955 (M.D.) |
physician (pediatrician and public health physician); received Elizabeth Blackwell Medal (1988), first African-American elected president of the American Medical Women's Association (1991) |
[9] |
E. Franklin Frazier |
|
sociologist |
|
Ira Andrew Harden |
2002 |
chemistry and physics teacher; first African-American selected as educator, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Program |
|
Reginald Hawkins, M.D. |
|
dentist; first black man to run for state office in North Carolina |
|
Louis Eugene King, Ph.D. |
c. 1920 |
anthropologist; first to study African-American communities in the United States |
|
Charles DeWitt Watts, M.D. |
1943 (Medicine) |
first African-American board-certified surgeon in North Carolina; founder of Lincoln Community Medical Center |
[10] |
Frances Cress Welsing, M.D. |
1960 |
psychiatrist; author of The Isis Papers [11] |
|
Marguerite Williams, Ph.D. |
1923 |
geologist, received B.A. from Howard |
[12] |
Dudley Weldon Woodard, Ph.D. |
|
established graduate mathematics program at Howard |
[13] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Delbert Baker, Ph.D. |
|
president, Oakwood College |
|
John T. Baker |
|
first African-American dean, Albany Law School |
|
Franklin D. Chambers, II., Ph.D. |
|
Higher Ed. Administrator |
[16] |
Kenneth Clark, Ph.D. |
|
educator and psychologist; with wife Mamie Clark, conducted the "doll research" for the Brown vs. Board of Education case |
|
Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D. |
|
first African-American president of Gannon University; former dean of Xavier University of Louisiana College of Arts and Sciences |
|
Edison O. Jackson |
|
president, Medgar Evers College |
|
Weldon Jackson |
|
provost and executive vice president, Manhattan College |
|
Charlene Drew Jarvis, Ph.D. |
1964 M.S. |
president, Southeastern University; daughter of Dr. Charles Drew |
|
Dr. Heather Knight |
|
21st president, Pacific Union College |
|
Walter J. Leonard |
|
former president of Fisk University; former assistant dean of Howard University School of Law and Harvard Law School; executive director of Cities in Schools |
|
Beverly D. Malloy |
|
executive vice president, Barber-Scotia College |
|
Marion Mann |
1954 |
former dean, Howard University College of Medicine (1970–1979) |
|
Kelly Miller |
1886 |
mathematician, scientist, sociologist; first African-American admitted to Johns Hopkins University; dean of Howard University College of Arts and Sciences (1907–1919); established sociology department at Howard University |
[18] |
R. Charles Moyer |
|
dean emeritus of Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University; fifth permanent dean of University of Louisville College of Business and Public Administration |
|
Dr. Njeri Nuru-Holm |
|
vice president, Office of Diversity, Cleveland State University |
|
Irvin Reid, Ph.D. |
|
president, Wayne State University |
|
Harry G. Robinson III |
1966, 1970 |
dean of Howard University School of Architecture and Design; chairman of United States Commission of Fine Arts |
[19] |
H. Patrick Swygert |
|
president, Howard University |
|
Dr. Thelma Barnaby Thompson |
|
12th president, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Archie Alexander |
|
former Governor of US Virgin Islands |
|
Aris T. Allen |
|
former member Maryland State Senate, first African-American to run for Lt. Governor of Maryland |
|
Ras Baraka |
1991 |
mayor of Newark, New Jersey July 1, 2014- |
|
Boce W. Barlow, Jr. |
|
first African-American to be elected to the Connecticut State Senate |
|
William V. Bell |
|
mayor of Durham, North Carolina |
|
Adolphus A. Birch |
|
first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court |
|
Aisha N. Braveboy |
|
member, Maryland House of Delegates |
|
Percival Broderick |
|
Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica |
|
Edward Brooke |
1941 |
first African-American elected to the United States Senate |
|
Hon. Ewart Brown |
1968, School of Medicine 1972 |
Premier and Minister of Tourism and Transport of Bermuda |
|
Gayleatha Brown |
|
Ambassador to Benin |
|
Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. |
|
Senior Judge, currently Judge Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
|
Roland Burris |
1963 (School of Law) |
United States Senator, former State Attorney General and Comptroller, Illinois |
|
Robert L. Carter |
1940 (School of Law) |
civil rights advocate and judge of the United States District Court |
|
Walter Percival Carter |
|
civil rights advocate |
|
Charles E. "Charlie" Cobb Jr. |
|
civil rights activist; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; "Freedom Schools"; founding member of National Association of Black Journalists; writer |
|
Elijah Cummings |
1973 |
United States Congress |
|
David Dinkins |
1950 |
first African-American mayor of New York City |
|
Herbert B. Dixon, Jr. |
|
judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
|
Rachel Dolezal |
2002 |
civil rights activist |
[20] |
George W. Draper III |
|
first African-American Chief Judge for the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, first African-American male to be appointed a judge in St. Louis |
|
Mike Espy |
|
first African-American United States Secretary of Agriculture |
|
Melvin Evans |
|
former Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, former Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives |
|
Nathaniel Exum |
|
member, Maryland State Senate |
|
James L. Farmer |
1941 |
civil rights activist, founder and first leader of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
|
Adrian Fenty |
1996 (School of Law) |
former mayor of Washington, D.C. |
[21] |
Wilkie D. Ferguson |
(School of Law) |
judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the Florida Third District Court of Appeal, and the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida |
|
Harold Ford, Sr. |
|
former United States Representative from Tennessee |
|
Shirley Franklin |
|
first female and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
|
Darrin P. Gayles |
|
United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida |
|
Emma Gillett |
|
co-founder of the first law school in the world founded by women; first woman to be appointed notary public by the President of the United States |
|
John R. Hargrove, Sr. |
|
Judge, United States District Court Maryland |
|
Oliver Harper |
|
Minister of Health, Guyana |
|
Kamala Harris |
1986 |
Attorney General of California |
[22] |
Patricia Roberts Harris |
1945 |
United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States Ambassador |
|
William Henry Harrison Hart |
|
attorney who won the 1905 Hart v. State of Maryland case |
|
William H. Hastie |
|
former Governor of US Virgin Islands |
|
Joseph Hatchett |
1959 |
former Florida Supreme Court judge; first African-American in the south to win a statewide election |
|
Earl F. Hilliard |
|
United States Congress |
|
Dr. James W. Holley, III, D.D.S. |
|
mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia |
|
Benjamin Hooks |
|
former executive director of the NAACP |
|
Lonna Hooks |
|
Secretary of State of New Jersey (1994–1998) |
[23] |
Hutchins F. Inge |
(School of Medicine) |
first African-American to serve in the New Jersey Senate |
[24] |
Hon. Louise A. Jackson |
1952 |
Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Health and Seniors Bermuda (2003-2012); founder of Bermuda's first school of dance, Jackson School of the Performing Arts; author of The Bermuda Gombey: Bermuda's Unique Dance Heritage |
|
His Excellency Cheddi Jagan |
|
President, Guyana |
|
Jack B. Johnson |
|
former County Executive, Prince George's County, Maryland |
|
William A. Johnson, Jr. |
|
mayor, Rochester, New York |
|
Elaine Jones |
|
former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. |
|
Hon. John Junor |
|
Minister of Health, Jamaica |
|
Sharon Pratt Kelly |
1965 |
first African-American female mayor of a major city, Washington, D.C. |
|
Hon. Keith Knight |
|
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica |
|
Peta Lindsay |
|
anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. president with the Party for Socialism and Liberation |
|
Thurgood Marshall |
1933 (School of Law) |
first African-American United States Supreme Court justice |
|
Rudolph C. McCollum |
|
former mayor, Richmond, Virginia |
|
Gabrielle Kirk McDonald |
(School of Law) |
judge, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands |
|
Enolia McMillan |
|
first female national president of the NAACP |
|
Gregory W. Meeks |
|
Representative for New York's sixth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives |
|
Vicki Miles-LaGrange |
|
District Judge, Western district of Oklahoma; first African-American woman U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma; first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate |
|
Dr. Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell |
|
Ph.D. Prime Minister of Grenada |
|
Thomas R. Monroe |
|
first African-American judge in Arlington County, Virginia |
|
Brandon T. Neal |
|
national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division; Finance Director, African-American Affairs for Obama for America Presidential Campaign |
|
James E. O'Hara |
|
member, United States House of Representatives (1883-1887) representing North Carolina |
|
Ronald Palmer |
|
Ambassador to Togo, Malaysia and Mauritius |
|
Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr. |
1954 |
Chairman, United States Commission on Civil Rights (1981-1988); swimming coach at Howard (1957-1968) |
[25] |
Carrie Saxon Perry |
(School of Law) |
first African-American female Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1987-1993) |
|
Meshea Poore |
|
Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates |
[26] |
Adam Clayton Powell, IV |
|
member of the New York State Assembly; son of former U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
|
Randy Primas |
1971 |
first African-American Mayor of Camden, New Jersey (1981-1990) |
[27] |
Eugene Puryear |
|
anti-war activist; candidate for Vice President of the United States with the Party for Socialism and Liberation |
|
Hon. Peggy Quince |
|
first African-American woman on Florida Supreme Court |
|
Charlotte E. Ray |
|
first African-American woman lawyer |
|
Kasim Reed |
1991 |
Mayor of Atlanta |
|
Gerard Robinson |
|
former Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia |
|
Spottswood Robinson |
1939 (School of Law) |
judge, United States Court of Appeals; also faculty |
|
Todd Rutherford |
|
South Carolina State Representative |
|
Roy Schneider |
1961 |
Governor United States Virgin Islands |
|
His Excellency Sir Arleigh Winston Scott |
|
first native Governor-General of Barbados |
|
Malik Zulu Shabazz |
|
attorney; National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party |
|
Mary Ann Shadd Cary |
|
first black woman to cast a vote in a national election |
|
Thomas S. Smith |
|
former mayor of Asbury Park, New Jersey who served in the New Jersey General Assembly[28] |
|
James R. Spencer |
|
Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
|
Craig S. Strong |
|
Michigan Third Circuit Court judge |
|
Emmet G. Sullivan |
|
Judge of United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
|
Ronald Sapa Tlau |
|
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, India representing the state of Mizoram |
[29] |
Kwame Ture |
1964 |
activist, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), born Stokely Carmichael |
|
Dale Wainwright |
|
first African-American ever elected to the Texas Supreme Court |
|
Walter Washington |
1948 (School of Law) |
B.A. and J.D.; first elected mayor of Washington, D.C. |
|
Bali White |
|
researcher and human rights activist |
|
George Henry White |
1877 |
U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901 |
|
L. Douglas Wilder |
1959 (School of Law) |
first elected African-American United States governor, current Mayor of Richmond, Virginia |
|
Harris Wofford |
|
United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1991-95) |
|
Albert Wynn |
|
first African-American elected to the United States Congress from Prince George's County and Montgomery County in Maryland |
|
Andrew Young |
|
first African-American United Nations Ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Ronald Bartell |
|
NFL cornerback (St. Louis Rams, Detroit Lions) |
|
Antoine Bethea |
|
NFL safety (San Francisco 49ers) |
|
Milan Brown |
|
head men's basketball coach at College of the Holy Cross |
|
Marques Douglas |
|
NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco Forty-Niners) |
|
Omar Evans |
|
Canadian Football League defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes, Calgary Stampeders) |
|
Dennis Felton |
|
head men's basketball coach at the University of Georgia |
|
Dr. Rhadi Ferguson |
1997 |
four-time US National Judo Champion; 2004 Judo Olympian; only African-American male with a Ph.D. to fight on a internationally televised mixed martial arts event; Strikeforce Challengers 13; MMA fighter for Strikeforce |
|
Pep Hamilton |
|
current offensive coordinator at Stanford University; former quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears |
|
Gary Harrell |
|
current head coach of Howard Bison football team; former NFL/WLAF wide receiver (New York Giants and Frankfurt Galaxy); former assistant coach at Texas Southern University |
|
Nigel Henry |
|
professional soccer player |
|
Shaka Hislop |
|
goalkeeper for FC Dallas and Trinidad and Tobago national football team who played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup |
|
Edward P. Hurt |
|
football, basketball and track coach at Morgan State University |
|
Billy Jenkins |
|
former National Football League defensive back |
|
Thyron Lewis |
|
professional gridiron football player |
|
Bubba Morton |
|
Major League Baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Braves, California Angels); first African-American to sign with the Detroit Tigers |
|
Marques Ogden |
|
former NFL offensive lineman |
|
David Oliver |
2005 |
professional track and field athlete |
|
Geoff Pope |
|
NFL cornerback (New York Giants) |
|
Larry Spriggs |
|
former NBA player |
|
Milt Thompson |
|
former Major League Baseball player, hitting coach for the Philadelphia Phillies |
|
Andrae Townsel |
|
professional football player; former member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Washington Redskins |
|
Jay Walker |
|
ESPNU football analyst; NFL quarterback (New England Patriots, 1994; Barcelona Dragons, 1995; Minnesota Vikings, 1996-97), Maryland State Delegate |
|
Tim Watson |
|
former American football safety in the National Football League |
[30] |
Tracy White |
|
current NFL linebacker |
|
Steve Wilson |
1979 |
former NFL defensive back; former head football coach of the Howard University; former head coach at Texas Southern University |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Rachelle Akuffo |
|
award-winning business correspondent and producer, China Central Television |
|
Sherry Berger |
|
on-air personality, WPGC-FM, Washington, D.C. |
[31] |
Michelle Bernard |
|
political/legal analyst, MSNBC, The McLaughlin Group |
|
Victor Blackwell |
|
television anchor, WPBF, West Palm Beach, Florida; anchor and correspondent, CNN (since 2012) |
[32] |
Leon Dash |
|
Pulitzer Prize winner, The Washington Post |
|
Tarik El Bashir |
|
sportscaster, Comcast SportsNet Washington |
|
Lesli Foster |
|
television anchor, WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C. |
|
Hal Jackson |
|
first African-American radio sportscaster[citation needed]; co-owner of the first African-American-owned-and-operated station in New York |
|
Gus Johnson |
|
sportscaster, CBS Sports |
|
Greg Sashi Kearse |
1974 |
Writer, journalist, WABC-TV, Mutual Black Radio Network, Masonic Digest |
|
Colbert King |
|
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post |
|
Michael King |
|
conservative commentator; television producer, WXIA-TV, Atlanta, Georgia |
|
Jamilah Lemieux |
|
writer and editor, Ebony magazine |
|
Kellye Lynn |
|
news anchor, WJZ-TV, Baltimore, Maryland |
|
Vicki Mabrey |
|
CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent |
|
Michelle Miller |
|
reporter, CBS News |
|
Pat Lawson Muse |
|
television anchor, WRC-TV Washington, D.C. |
|
Ju-Don Marshall Roberts |
|
The Washington Post, News Corporation |
|
Cynne Simpson |
|
television anchor, WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. |
|
Lori Stokes |
|
news anchor, WABC-TV, New York City |
|
Tom Terrell |
1972 |
music journalist, photographer, promoter, NPR music commentator |
|
La La Vasquez |
|
on-air personality; wife of basketball player Carmello Anthony |
|
Stan Verrett |
|
anchor, ESPN |
|
Fredricka Whitfield |
|
anchor, CNN |
|
Nancy Anita Williams |
|
journalist and editor, Essence, The Washington Post and Daily News |
|
Steve Wyche |
|
sports journalist, NFL Network |
[33] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Geri Allen |
|
jazz pianist |
|
Ysaye M. Barnwell |
|
member of a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, actress, author |
|
James A. Bland |
|
musician; composer; author of over 700 songs including the former state song of Virginia |
|
Donald Byrd |
|
jazz musician |
|
Cora Coleman-Dunham |
|
percussionist, currently tours with Prince |
|
Sean Combs |
1992 (dropped out in 1990) |
music producer, also known as "Puffy", "P. Money", "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy", and "Diddy" |
[36] |
Frenchie Davis |
2014 |
Broadway performer, soul, dance/electronica, and pop singer |
|
Billy Eckstine |
|
singer |
|
Lillian Evanti |
|
opera singer |
|
Roberta Flack |
|
singer |
|
Benny Golson |
|
jazz saxophone player |
|
Rich Harrison |
|
Grammy-winning record producer and songwriter |
|
Donny Hathaway |
|
singer |
|
Shirley Horn |
|
jazz singer and pianist |
|
Bill Hughes |
1952 |
jazz trombonist, director of the Count Basie Orchestra |
[37] |
Marcus Johnson |
|
jazz pianist |
|
Laraaji |
|
ambient musician |
|
Kenny Lattimore |
|
singer; ex-husband of singer Chante Moore |
|
Linda Lou McCall |
|
songwriter and entertainment marketing consultant; widow of Louis A. McCall; drummer and founder of Con Funk Shun |
|
Meshell Ndegeocello |
|
recording artist; singer and bassist |
|
Jessye Norman |
|
opera singer, received Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 |
|
Eric Roberson |
|
singer |
|
Sadat X |
|
rapper, member of hip hop group Brand Nubian |
|
Donnie Scantz, born Darnley Scantlebury |
|
Grammy-nominated music producer, musician and songwriter |
|
Shai |
|
band; "If I Ever Fall in Love" |
|
Richard Smallwood |
|
Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, pianist, and arranger |
|
Crystal Waters |
|
singer, "100% Pure Love," "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" |
|
Angela Winbush |
|
singer |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Debbie Allen |
|
dancer, actress, producer/director of A Different World, 1987-1993 |
|
Laz Alonso |
|
actor (Stomp the Yard, Jarhead, Jumping The Broom, This Christmas, Avatar) |
|
Anthony Anderson |
|
actor (Two Can Play that Game, Barbershop, Kangaroo Jack, The Shield, Law & Order) |
|
Chadwick Boseman |
2000 |
actor (42, Lincoln Heights, Persons Unknown) |
|
Ossie Davis |
|
actor and activist |
[38] |
Wendy Davis |
|
actress, Lifetime Television, Army Wives |
|
Ernest Dickerson |
|
filmmaker and director, The Wire |
|
Lance Gross |
|
actor (Tyler Perry's House of Payne) |
|
Napiera Groves |
|
actress (As The World Turns) |
|
Taraji P. Henson |
1995 |
Academy Award-nominated actress for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; star of CBS show Person of Interest, has also starred in Baby Boy, Hustle and Flow, Smokin' Aces,The Karate Kid (2010) |
|
Dianne Houston |
|
Oscar-nominated filmmaker |
|
Ananda Lewis |
1995 |
talk show host (BET,The Ananda Lewis Show) |
[39] |
Julia Pace Mitchell |
|
actress (Notorious, The Young & The Restless) |
|
Paula Jai Parker |
|
actress (Friday, Hustle and Flow, Idlewild) |
|
Carl Anthony Payne II |
|
actor (The Cosby Show, Martin) |
|
Freddie Perren |
1966 |
Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer (Saturday Night Fever) |
|
Shauneille Perry |
1950 |
stage director, playwright and educator |
|
Phylicia Rashad |
1970 |
actress (The Cosby Show, Raisin In The Sun, The Old Settler, The Wiz), first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Raisin In The Sun) |
|
Wendy Raquel Robinson |
|
actress (The Steve Harvey Show, The Game, Two Can Play That Game, Something New) |
|
Roxie Roker |
1952 |
actress (The Jeffersons); Lenny Kravitz's mother |
|
Malik Hassan Sayeed |
|
filmmaker |
|
Al Shearer |
|
former BET personality and actor |
|
Tracie Thoms |
|
actress (Rent - The Movie, The Devil Wears Prada, Grindhouse) |
|
Stacie Scott Turner |
|
The Real Housewives of D.C. entrepreneur; real estate and marketing professional (Procter & Gamble, BET); founded charity Extra-Ordinary Life |
|
Isaiah Washington |
|
actor (Get On The Bus, Love Jones, Grey's Anatomy) |
|
Marlon Wayans |
|
actor (Little Man, White Chicks) |
|
Richard Wesley |
1967 |
playwright and screenwriter |
|
Karen Malina White |
|
actress (The Cosby Show, A Different World, Malcolm & Eddie, Lean On Me) |
|
Lynn Whitfield |
|
Emmy award-winning actress (The Josephine Baker Story, Stompin' At The Savoy, Thin Line Between Love & Hate, Head of State, Eve's Bayou) |
|
Vantile Whitfield |
1957 |
director, playwright, production designer and influential arts administrator |
[40] |
Name |
Department |
Notability |
Reference |
E. R. Braithwaite |
|
Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat; author of To Sir, With Love; artist-in-residence at Howard beginning in 2002 |
|
Sterling Brown |
|
writer, teacher, literary critic, poet laureate of Washington, D.C.; professor 1929- around 1969 |
|
John Melville Burgess |
Chaplain |
served 1946-56; later the first African-American to head an Episcopal diocese as diocesan bishop of Massachusetts |
[41] |
Dr. Clive Callender |
|
a foremost specialist in organ transplant medicine in the US; professor at Howard University College of Medicine, 1973-present |
|
Cecile Hoover Edwards |
Dean of School of Human Ecology (1974-1987); Dean of School of Continuing Education |
Nutritional researcher and government consultant |
[42] |
John Mercer Langston |
Law |
first African-American Dean of Howard Law; Congressman |
|
Alain Locke |
|
professor, writer, philosopher |
|
Ruth Ella Moore, Ph.D. |
|
first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in bacteriology; faculty member of the Howard University Medical School 1940-1973 |
|
Merze Tate |
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first African-American graduate of Western Michigan College; first African-American female to attend Oxford; first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations from Harvard University; one of the first women members of the Department of History at Howard University; expert in diplomatic history; professor 1942-77 |
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Emory Tolbert |
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African-American historian, archivist and activist; initiated New York Burial Ground Project |
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Eric Williams |
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first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; instrumental in them gaining their independence; Caribbean historian; Howard professor 1939-1944 |
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