Inductee Category: <span>Business and Industry</span>
Donald Sowell
Alcorn State University
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
Dr. Tyrone A. Burroughs
Tyrone Adam Burroughs is a 2021 Hall of Fame inductee whose career in business and community leadership was recognized by the Foundation alongside that…
Mr. Louis Henry, Jr.
Southern University
Mr. Leroy Edwards
North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Valerie R. Daniels-Carter
Valerie Daniels-Carter, a Lincoln University of Missouri alumna, is a restaurant franchise executive whose V & J Holding Companies became one of the largest…
Dr. Henry Coaxum, Jr.
(Industry) Talladega College