Inductee Category: <span>Community Service</span>
George Dillard
Langston University
Dr. Joseph Lowery
Joseph Lowery, a Knoxville College alumnus, helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and later served as its president. He was a principal voice…
Ollie W. Gates
Ollie Gates, a Lincoln University of Missouri alumnus, built Gates Bar-B-Q into a Kansas City institution. The family restaurants became one of the best-known…
Lyda Hannan
Fort Valley State University
Theodore Blunt
Winston-Salem State University
Rev. Dr. Cecil Murray
Cecil “Chip” Murray, a Florida A&M University graduate, was senior pastor of First AME Church of Los Angeles during the 1992 uprising and its…
Charles Barlow
Morris Brown College
Rev. Leon Sullivan
Leon Sullivan, a West Virginia State alumnus, pastored Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia and created the Opportunities Industrialization Centers. His Sullivan Principles pressed American…
Xernona Clayton
Xernona Clayton, a Tennessee State graduate, worked with the SCLC in Atlanta and later became a pioneering television executive at TBS. She created the…
Thelma Parks
Langston University