Inductee Category: <span>Business and Industry</span>
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson, a Tuskegee-trained engineer, invented the Super Soaker after a career that included Air Force and NASA nuclear-engineering work. He later built Johnson…
Dr. Samuels Metters
Prairie View A & M University
Willie A. Deese
Willie A. Deese, a North Carolina A&T State University graduate, was president of Merck’s manufacturing division and later served on corporate and university boards.…
Roy Terry & Rudolph Terry
Morehouse College
Logan H. Westbrooks
Logan H. Westbrooks, a Lincoln University of Missouri alumnus, was a record-industry executive who worked at CBS, Mercury, and Motown and later ran his…
Gerald Williams
Lane College
C.D. (Charles David) Moody
(Business) Morehouse College
Joe Dudley
Joe L. Dudley Sr., a North Carolina A&T alumnus, built Dudley Products into a major Black-owned hair-care company and a training network for stylists.…
Dmitri Stockton
(Industry) North Carolina A&T State University
William Cox
Alabama State University