List of Morehouse College alumni
Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. on the Morehouse campus This is a list of notable alumni including currently matriculating students and alumni who are graduates or non-matriculating students of Morehouse College .
Morehouse College is a private , four-year, all-male , historically black college in Atlanta , Georgia . During enrollment at the college students are known as "Men of Morehouse." Upon graduation, alumni are ceremoniously initiated as lifetime "Morehouse Men." There are over 20,000 alumni of Morehouse College and dozens of alumni chapters established across the U.S. and a few foreign countries.[ 1]
See also Morehouse College alumni .
Academia
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Russell L Adams
1952
Chair, Department Afro-American Studies, Howard University (1971–2005); Professor Emeritus , Howard University
Benjamin Brawley
1901
first Dean of Morehouse College
Calvin O. Butts
1972
President, SUNY College at Old Westbury ; Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church
[ 2]
James A. Colston
1932
2nd President, Bethune-Cookman University ; President Knoxville College ; President Savannah State University ; 2nd President, Bronx Community College
John Warren Davis
1911
President of West Virginia State College (1919–1953)
[ 3]
Albert W. Dent
1926
President of Dillard University , Chief Executive of Flint-Goodridge Hospital , advocate for education and healthcare of impoverished people
Eddie Glaude
1989
Chair, Center for African American Studies and Professor at Princeton University ; guest contributor: The Tavis Smiley Show
[ 4]
William E. Holmes
former President of Central City College, faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute for 25 years
John Hopps Jr.
1958
former Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Distinguished Physics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; recipient of the Materials Advancement Award
William M. Jackson
1956
founder of National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and Emile A. Dickenson Professor at the University of California, Davis ; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
1911
first African-American president of Howard University
[ 5]
Michael A. Lindsey
1994
Dean of New York University Silver School of Social Work (2022-Present)
[ 6]
Calvin Mackie
1990
former Professor of Engineering, Tulane University ; winner of the 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering; Black Engineer of the Year for College Level Educators
Walter E. Massey
1958
President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago ; former Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago ; former Dean of the College of Physics at Brown University ; former Provost of the University of California System ; President Emeritus at Morehouse College
James Nabrit Jr.
1923
second African-American president of Howard University and former Deputy United Nations Ambassador
Kevin D. Rome
1989
former president of Lincoln University (2013–2017); former president of Fisk University (June 2017–August 2020)
[ 7]
A. Benjamin Spencer
1996
first black dean of William & Mary Law School (2020–Present)
[ 8]
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
1989
first African American Faculty Dean, Harvard College. Professor, Harvard Law School and Director of the Criminal Justice Inst. at Harvard Law; legal analyst CNN, Fox News; legal representative for Harvey Weinstein
James F. Williams
1966
Dean of Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder , 2002 Melvil Dewey Medal recipient
Charles V. Willie
1948
Distinguished Professor Emeritus , Harvard University Graduate School of Education
John Silvanus Wilson
1979
Ph.D, 11th president of Morehouse College , former executive director, White House Initiative on HBCUs
Business
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Lerone Bennett Jr.
1949
senior editor for the Johnson Publishing Group (JET , Ebony ); author of Before the Mayflower
Fonzworth Bentley
1997
media personality
Sanford Biggers
1992
artist, professor at Columbia University School of the Arts
Byron Cage
1987
Grammy -nominated gospel singer; NAACP Image Award nominee; winner of six Stellar Awards
[citation needed ]
Michael DeMond Davis
1961
Thomas Dent
1952
writer and poet; author of Magnolia Street
[ 11]
Rockmond Dunbar
1991
actor, Soul Food , Girlfriends
John Warren Davis
1911
President of West Virginia State College (1919–1953)
<[ 3]
Tope Folarin
2004
Nigerian-American writer
Guru (born Keith Elam)
1983
rapper, founder of Gang Starr
[ 12]
Brian Tyree Henry
2004
actor, Atlanta
Wendell Holland
2006
winner of the thirty-sixth season of Survivor
[ 13]
Samuel L. Jackson
1972
actor
[ 14]
Edmund Jenkins
1914
Harlem Renaissance composer , studied under Kemper Harreld
Robert E. Johnson
1948
former Executive Editor and Associate Publisher, Jet Magazine
Canton Jones
1985
Grammy -nominated gospel singer
Erik King
1985
actor, Dexter
Spike Lee
1979
film director and producer
[ 14]
Miles Marshall Lewis
1993
pop culture critic, essayist, and author
Seith Mann
1995
television director: The Wire , Grey's Anatomy ; winner of the NAACP Image Award
Martin Luther McCoy
1992
musician and actor
[ 15]
PJ Morton
2003
Grammy Award-winning Maroon 5 keyboardist and artist
[ 16]
Bill G. Nunn III
1976
actor, School Daze , Mo Better Blues , New Jack City
[ 17]
Babatunde Olatunji
1954
Grammy Award -winning Nigerian drummer, social activist and recording artist; Drums of Passion
[ 18]
Kevin A. Ross
1985
host/executive producer of daytime syndicated legal show America's Court with Judge Ross
Shakir Stewart
1996
Senior Vice President of Island Def Jam Music Group , Executive Vice President of Def Jam
Vincent Tubbs
c .1938
co-founder of National Negro Newspaper Week and first African American to head a motion picture industry union
[ 19] [ 20]
John David Washington
2006
actor, BlacKkKlansman , Tenet
Saul Williams
1994
performing artist and actor
Government, law, and public policy
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Sanford Bishop
1968
U.S. Congressman (Georgia )
[ 21]
Claude Black Jr.
1937
first Black mayor Pro Tem San Antonio , Texas; civil rights leader; Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas
[ 22] [ 23]
A. Scott Bolden
1984
attorney and television political commentator
[ 24]
Julian Bond
1971
civil rights leader, former Georgia state representative and Chairman of the NAACP
[ 14]
Nicholas W. Brown
1999
President Joe Biden -appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington
[ 25]
Terrance Carroll
1992
Speaker , Colorado House of Representatives
Julius E. Coles
1964
former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal; former President of Africare
George Crockett III
1961
Judge, Recorder's Court (Detroit) ; served on the same bench as his father, Judge George Crockett Jr.
[ 26]
George W. Crockett Jr.
1931
former U.S. Congressman, United States Congress ; founding member of the National Lawyer's Guild ; civil rights activist; co-founded the first racially integrated law firm in the U.S.; first Black attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor
[ 27] [ 24]
John Wesley Dobbs
1897
the unofficial "Mayor" of Sweet Auburn Avenue (1937–1949); Civic Leader and co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League
[ 28]
Kenneth Dunkin
1989
Illinois House of Representatives
Lee Harris
2000
7th mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee
[ 29]
Ralph B. Everett
1973
President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
[ 30]
Joseph Jerome Farris
1951
Judge, United States Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
[ 31]
George Haley
1949
former Chair U.S. Postal Rate Commission and Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana; brother of Alex Haley
[ 32]
James R. Hall
1957
retired United States Army Lieutenant General, final commander of the Fourth United States Army
[ 33] [ 34]
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
1995
President of the Los Angeles City Council
[ 35]
Kirk Hatcher
1988
Alabama Senator for the 26th district
Earl F. Hilliard
1964
former U.S. Congressman (Alabama )
[ 36]
El-Mahdi Holly
1998
Georgia House of Representatives
[ 37]
Edward S. Hope
1923
engineer, educator, first African American Lt. Commander in the United States Navy
[ 38]
John Hopps Jr.
1958
former Deputy Undersecretary United States Department of Defense
[ 39]
Odell Horton
1951
Judge, U.S. District Court W. Tenn.
[ 40]
Maynard Jackson
1956
first Black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson served three terms as Mayor; founder and CEO of Jackson Securities Inc.; National Development Chair, Democratic National Committee
[ 41]
Jeh Johnson
1979
Secretary of Homeland Security; first black Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP , named to the National Law Journal 's 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers; appointed General Counsel for the Defense Department by President Barack Obama ; former General Counsel U.S. Air Force
Marlon Kimpson
1991
South Carolina Senate member and attorney
Reginald C. Lindsay
1967
Judge, United States Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
[ 42]
C. Vernon Mason
1967
former lawyer, Tawana Brawley case, Howard Beach incident
Ed McIntyre
1956
first African-American mayor of Augusta, Georgia
John Monds
1987
received highest number of votes received by any Libertarian candidate ever
[ 43]
James Nabrit Jr.
1923
former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ; second African American President of Howard University
[ 36]
Julien Xavier Neals
1986
first U.S. federal judge confirmed during Joe Biden's presidency
[ 44]
Major Owens
1956
U.S. Congressman (New York )
[ 45]
Ernest Page
1964
first Black mayor of Orlando, Florida
Graham T. Perry
1923
first African American Assistant Attorney-General for State of Illinois
[ 46] [ 47]
Frank Peterman
1985
Florida House of Representatives
Steven Reed
1998
first African-American mayor of Montgomery, Alabama
[ 48]
Cedric Richmond
1995
U.S. Congressman (Louisiana )
Sebastian Ridley-Thomas
2009
California State Assembly
David Satcher
1963
16th U.S. Surgeon General , former president of Morehouse School of Medicine
[ 49]
Bakari Sellers
2005
youngest member elected to the South Carolina General Assembly and TV political comementator
[ 50]
James H. Shelton III
1989
former Deputy Secretary of Education for the United States
[ 51]
Jamal Simmons
1993
political advisor and communications director
Louis W. Sullivan
1954
former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and current President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine
[ 52]
Andre Thapedi
1990
Illinois House of Representatives
Perry Thurston Jr.
1982
Florida House of Representatives
Horace T. Ward
1927
first African American to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the UGA School of Law ; first African-American to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ; former member of the Georgia Senate ; inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame ; recipient of the Trumpet Award for Civil Rights Advocacy
[ 53] [ 54]
Raphael Warnock
1991
first Democratic U.S. African-American Senator elected in the South
Randall Woodfin
2003
29th mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
[ 55]
S. Howard Woodson
1942
Bachelor of Divinity Morehouse School of Religion; former Speaker, New Jersey General Assembly
Religion
Science and medicine
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Angela Doyinsola Aina
2011
Co-founder and executive director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance
[ 62]
Dustin T. Duncan
2005
Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University ;
[ 63]
Henry W. Foster Jr.
1954
President Emeritus, Meharry Medical College ; clinical professor, Vanderbilt University ; former nominee to post of U.S. Surgeon General; presidential advisor
Corey Hébert
1991
celebrity physician, radio talk show host, Chief Medical Editor for National Broadcasting Company for the Gulf Coast, first Black Chief Resident of Pediatrics at Tulane University , chief executive officer of Community Health TV
[ 64]
Donald Hopkins
1962
Director and Vice President, Health Programs, The Carter Center ; a 1995 MacArthur Fellow ; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983
John Hopps Jr.
1958
physicist, former longtime Director of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ); recipient of the National Materials Advancement Award; former Deputy Under Secretary for the United States Department of Defense
Calvin B. Johnson
1989
24th Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
Samuel M. Nabrit
1925
Distinguished Science Professor; first African-American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ; served on Dwight Eisenhower 's National Science Board ; first African-American to receive a doctoral degree from Brown University ; first African-American to serve as Trustee at Brown University; second president of Texas Southern University
[ 65]
Roderic I. Pettigrew
1972
cardiologist and renowned biomedical engineer; Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering ; former Director of Magnetic Resonance Research and Professor of Radiology and Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine; listed annually among the "Best Doctors in America"
[ 66]
Charles DeWitt Watts
1938
first board-certified African-American surgeon in North Carolina; founder of Lincoln Community Health Center
[ 67]
Asa G. Yancey Sr.
1937
first African-American professor and Professor Emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine , first African-American doctor and Medical Director at Grady Memorial Hospital
Sports
Others
Notable faculty
Name
Department
Notability
Reference
Na'im Akbar
Psychology
author, Breaking the Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery
Amalia Amaki
History
modern and contemporary artist
Clayborne Carson
History
Executive Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Collection; professor, Stanford University
Lawrence Edward Carter
Religion
Dean, Martin Luther King Chapel; Fulbright Scholar ; founder of the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize
Louis Delsarte
Fine Arts
painter, muralist
Frank Forbes
Athletics
[ 24]
E. Franklin Frazier
Sociology
author, Black Bourgeoisie
Kemper Harreld
Music
established the Morehouse College Glee Club
John Hope
President
first black president of Morehouse
John Hopps Jr.
Physics
former Director, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory , MIT
Edward A. Jones
Foreign Language
author, A Candle In The Dark: A History of Morehouse College
Benjamin E. Mays
President
mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.; established the institutions international academic reputation and gave rise to the Morehouse Mystique
Henry Cecil McBay
Chemistry
winner of the Norton Prize in Chemistry, the Norris Award, and the Herty Award for Outstanding Contributions in Chemistry; first MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT
Charles Wilbert Snow
Political Science
diplomat
Samuel Woodrow Williams
Philosophy and Religion
Baptist minister, civil rights activist
[ 77]
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