This is a list of notable alumni which includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Morehouse College.
Morehouse College is a private, four-year, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia.
See also Morehouse College alumni.
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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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 | [1] |
Ronald L. Carter | 1971 | President, Johnson C. Smith University; former Dean of Students Boston University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa | |
James A. Colston | 1932 | 2nd President, Bethune-Cookman University; President Knoxville College; President Savannah State University; 2nd President Bronx Community College | |
Samuel DuBois Cook | 1948 | first Black Professor Emeritus and Trustee Emeritus at Duke University; President Dillard University 1974-1997 | |
Charles D. Churchwell | 1952 | former Dean of Library Services at Washington University in St. Louis; Brown University and Miami University (OH) | |
Abraham L. Davis | 1961 | Distinguished Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Morehouse College | |
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson | 1911 | First African-American president of Howard University | [2] |
James C. Early | 1969 | Distinguished Director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, D.C. | [3] |
Eddie Glaude | 1989 | Chair, Center for African American Studies and Professor at Princeton University; Guest Contributor: The Tavis Smiley Show | [4] |
Marshall Grigsby | 1968 | former President of Benedict College and former Vice President, Provost and CEO of Hampton University | |
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 | |
David Jones | 1983 | Vice President of Human Resources, Stanford University | |
Walter J. Leonard | former Assistant Dean Harvard Law School; former President of Fisk University; Two Fellowships are named in his honor at Oxford University | [5] | |
James Nabrit, Jr. | 1923 | Second African-American president of Howard University and former Deputy United Nations Ambassador | |
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 | 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 | |
Richard McKinney | 1931 | first African American President of Storer College; former Dean at Virginia Union University and Morgan State University | |
Richard J. Powell | 1975 | Distinguished Professor of Art History at Duke University; editor-in-chief, the Art Bulletin; Wilbur Lucius Cross Medalist, Yale University Alumni of the Year Award | [6] |
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. | 1989 | Professor, Harvard Law School and Director of the Criminal Justice Inst. at Harvard Law; Legal Analysts CNN, Fox News | |
James F. Williams | current 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 S. Wilson, Jr. | 1979 | Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities; former Assistant Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | [7] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Ronald D. Brown | former CEO, Atlanta Life Financial Group, Inc | ||
Nathaniel H. Bronner, Sr. | 1940 | founder and former CEO, Bronner Bros., which is also the publisher of Upscale Magazine | |
Herman Cain | 1967 | former CEO, Godfather's Pizza | [8] |
Emmett Carson | 1981 | CEO and President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation | |
James W. Compton | 1961 | Board of Directors, Ariel Investments, Inc.; retired President & CEO, Chicago Urban League | |
Reginald E. Davis | 1984 | President, RBC Bank, former Sr. Executive, Wachovia; named one the 75 Most Powerful African-Americans in Corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine | |
Dale E. Jones | 1982 | Vice Chair, Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. | |
Robert L. Mallett | 1979 | former Vice President, Pfizer Corporation, President Pfizer Foundation/Member of Accordia Global Health Foundation’s Board of Directors | [9][10] |
Walter E. Massey | 1958 | former Chairman, Bank of America; former Director of the National Science Foundation | |
Kent Matlock | 1986 | CEO of Matlock Advertising & Public Relations | |
John W. Mims | 1982 | Sr. Vice President Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide | |
Arthur E. Johnson | 1968 | former President and COO, Lockheed Martin I&SS, and President, IBM, FSC Division | |
Shaka Rasheed | 1993 | Managing Director, J.P.Morgan Asset Management | |
Rufus H. Rivers | 1986 | Managing Director, RLJ Equity Partners, Board of Directors: Thomas & Betts, the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) | |
Robert T. Ross | 1981 | Director, NJ Wealth Management Banking at Merrill Lynch | |
Maceo K. Sloan | 1971 | Chair & CEO NCM Capital Management Group and Chair & CEO Sloan Financial Group, Inc., Board of Directors, SCANA Corporation |
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Samuel L. Jackson | 1972 | actor | [15] |
Spike Lee | 1979 | film director and producer | [15] |
Seith Mann | 1995 | television director: The Wire, Grey's Anatomy; winner of the NAACP Image Award | |
Bill G. Nunn III | 1976 | actor, School Daze, Mo Better Blues, New Jack City | [16] |
Stu James | 1989 | Broadway and television actor; Color Purple, Dreamgirls, All My Children, General Hospital | [17] |
Rockmond Dunbar | actor, Soul Food, Girlfriends |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Sanford Bishop | 1968 | U.S. Congressman (Georgia) | [18] |
John Brewer | 1989 | Associate Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Services and General Sales Manager, United States Department of Agriculture | [19] |
Julius E. Coles | 1964 | former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal; former President Africare | |
George Haley | 1949 | former Chair U.S. Postal Rate Commission and Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana; brother of Alex Haley | [20] |
James L. Hudson | 1961 | Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Chair, National Capitol Revitalization Corporation Board | [21] |
Earl F. Hilliard | 1964 | former U.S. Congressman (Alabama) | [22] |
John Hopps Jr. | 1958 | former Deputy Under Secretary United States Department of Defense | [23] |
Howard E. Jeter | 1970 | former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria; former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana | |
James Nabrit, Jr. | 1923 | former Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; second African American President of Howard University | [22] |
Robert L. Mallett | 1979 | former Deputy Secretary of Commerce U.S. Department of Commerce; VP Pfizer Corporation, President Pfizer Foundation | [9] |
Major R. Owens | 1956 | U.S. Congressman (New York) | [24] |
Cedric Richmond | 1995 | U.S. Congressman (Louisiana) | |
David Satcher | 1963 | 16th U.S. Surgeon General, former president of Morehouse School of Medicine | [25] |
Joel Secundy | 1993 | Deputy Assistant Secretary, Service Industries, International Trade Administrations, United States Department of Commerce | [26] |
Louis W. Sullivan | 1954 | former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and current President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine | [27] |
Horace T. Ward | 1927 | First African American to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the University of Georgia (UGA) School of Law. First African-American to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, and former member of the Georgia Senate | [28] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Julian Bond | 1971 | Civil rights leader, former Georgia state representative & Chairman of the NAACP | [15] |
Terrance Carroll | 1992 | Speaker, Colorado House of Representatives | |
Kenneth Dunkin | 1989 | Illinois House of Representatives | |
Leroy Johnson | 1949 | Senator; first African American elected to the Georgia General Assembly since Reconstruction | [29] |
John Monds | 1987 | Highest number of votes received by any Libertarian candidate ever | [30] |
Frank Peterman | 1985 | Florida House of Representatives | |
Bakari Sellers | 2005 | Youngest member elected to the South Carolina General Assembly | [31] |
Andre Thapedi | 1990 | Illinois House of Representatives | |
Perry Thurston Jr. | 1982 | Florida House of Representatives | |
S. Howard Woodson | 1942 | Bachelor of Divinity Morehouse School of Religion; former Speaker, New Jersey General Assembly |
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Lerone Bennett, Jr. | 1949 | Senior editor for the Johnson Publishing Group (JET, Ebony); author Before the Mayflower | |
Sanford Biggers | 1993 | Artist, Professor Columbia University School of the Arts | |
Thomas Dent | 1952 | writer and poet; author Magnolia Street | [57] |
Jefferson Grisby | 1938 | author, artist; NAACP Man of the Year Award; first African American to publish a book for collegiate art teachers | [36] |
Miles Marshall Lewis | 1993 | Pop culture critic, essayist, and author | |
Saul Williams | 1994 | Poet, writer, and actor. Known for his leading role in the independent film Slam |
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Calvin O. Butts | 1972 | Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church | |
M. William Howard, Jr. (minister) | 1968 | Pastor Bethany Baptist Church, former President New York Theological Seminary; Chair, Rutgers University Board of Governors | [58] |
Thomas Kilgore, Jr. | 1931 | Civil Rights pioneer and Pastor Emeritus, Second Baptist Church; a building is named in his honor on the Morehouse campus | [58] |
Otis Moss, Jr. | 1956 | Pastor and Theologian | |
Otis Moss III | 1992 | Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ; listed on the Root 100 | [59] |
Kelly Miller Smith | 1942 | assistant dean Vanderbilt University Divinity School (circa 1970s-1980s) | |
Howard Thurman | 1923 | Renowned Theologian; Dean of Chapel Boston University | |
Frederick B. Williams | Canon of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York (1971-2005) |
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Hamilton Holmes | 1963 | Desegregated the University of Georgia (along with Charlayne Hunter). He first attended Morehouse before transferring to UGA | [15] |
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1948 | Leader of the Civil Rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; delivered the historic I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington 1963 | [15] |
Howard Zehr | 1965 | Grandfather of Restorative Justice; 2006 winner of the Community of Christ Peace Award; first White student to attend Morehouse |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Edwin Moses | 1978 | Olympic gold medalist | [15] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Donn Clendenon | 1956 | New York Mets Outfielder and 1969 World Series MVP |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Caesar "Zip" Gayles | 1924 | former head football coach and former head basketball coach at Langston University, Member of SWAC Hall of Fame and NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame | [62] |
David Graham | 1982 | DE, Seattle Seahawks 1982-1987 | [63] |
Ramon Harewood | 2010 | OL, Baltimore Ravens 2010 | [63] |
Issac Keys | LB, Arizona Cardinals 2004-2005 | [63] | |
John David Washington | 2006 | RB, St. Louis Rams 2006, All-time leading rusher at Morehouse; RB in the UFL; son of Oscar Award winning actor Denzel Washington. |
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Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
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Na'im Akbar | Psychology | Author, Breaking the Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery | |
Amalia Amaki | History | Modern and Contemporary Art | |
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, the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builders Prize | |
Claude B. Dansby | Mathematics | Legendary chair, Mathematics Dept. | |
Louis Delsarte | Fine Arts | painter, muralist | |
E. Franklin Frazier | Sociology | Author, Black Bourgeoisie | |
Kemper Harreld | Music | Established the Morehouse College Glee Club | |
J.K. Haynes | Biology | Chair, Biology Department; New York Academy of Science; Who's Who in Science and Engineering; Who's Who Among America's Teachers; Visiting Scholar Brown University | |
John Hope (educator) | 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 | |
Frederick E. Mapp | Mathematics | F.E. Mapp Science & Math Symposium | |
Henry Cecil McBay | Chemistry | Winner of the Norton Prize in Chemistry, the Norris Award, and the Herty Award for Outstanding Contributions in Chemistry; 1st MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT | |
Harriet J. Walton | Mathematics | "Mother Walton" was a UNCF Dana Fellow; Who's Who Men and Women of Science (1974); Who's Who of American Women (1974); Outstanding Educators of America (1971) | |
Charles Wilbert Snow | Political Science | Diplomat |
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