Frederick L. Robinson
Eli Lilly retiree, lifelong volunteer to nonprofits and mentor.
1960
Major General Harry Brooks
US Army General
1947
Charles DeBow
Among the first Tuskegee Airmen
(circa) 1936
United States Congresswoman, Julia Carson
Former United States Representative
1955
General Norris Overton
Brigadier General in the United States Air Force
1946
Oscar Robertson
-
Willie Merriweather
-
Hallie Bryant
Professional Basketball Player and Motivational Speaker
1953
Willie Gardner
-
Edwena Bell Payne
Author of The Crazy Song
Jessie Keys Jacobs
Key player in the fight for desegregation in the ‘40s and ‘50s
Willard Ransom
Key player in the fight for desegregation in the ‘40s and ‘50s
Paul Parks
First African-American Secretary of Education in Massachusetts
Jerry Williams
VP of a $400-million-a-year auto supply company, and first African-American to grace the cover of Fortune Magazine
David Baker
Musician, IU Music Professor
Charles Walton
-
Fletcher Wiley
Fred Davidson III
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Charles Walton
Won Ford Genius scholarships
Marvin Johnson
World Light Heavyweight Champion Boxer
1972-1973
Clarence Baker
Won Ford Genius scholarships
Taylor Baker
Indy’s first African-American city prosecutor
Betty Crowe
Wife of Coach Ray P. Crowe
Jo Ann Terry
Olympian
Joseph Kimbrew
Indy’s first African-American fire chief
1948
Angela Brown
International Opera Star
1982
James Toler
Indy’s first African-American police chief
Janet Langhart Cohen
Author and Journalist
1959
Stanley Warren, PHD
Author and Historian
Wilma Gibbs Moore
-
Lt. JG Graham E. Martin
One of the Navy's "Golden Thirteen
Erroll Grandy
Jazz Musician
Elmon Myers
Black entrepreneur
J.J. Johnson
Jazz Musician
19xx
Dorothy Alexander
Along with Josephine Kirk, the first two African-American women to be accepted into the IU School of Medicine
John Lee
First black officer in the integrated Navy