Bishop Eddie L. Long

Eddie Long, a North Carolina Central University graduate, led New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, building one of the largest congregations in the South. His later years included public legal disputes over his ministry; he died in 2017.

• Longtime senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.
• North Carolina Central University alumnus inducted in 2003.
• Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2003.