Former Secretary of State Colin Powell

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• James Armistead, American Revolution patriot
• Tom Bradley, American politician
• Carol Mosely Braun, U.S. senator
• Edward Brooke, American politician
• Ralph Bunche, U.S. government official and United Nations diplomat
• Julia Carson, American politician
• Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, American politician
• John Conyers, politician
• Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist
• Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American air force general
• Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., American general
• David Dinkins, political leader
• Joycelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General
• William H. Hastie, U.S. jurist
• Richard Gordon Hatcher, politician, law professor
• A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent black federal judge and historian
• Benjamin Hooks, American black leader
• Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist
• Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta
• Daniel "Chappie" James, first black U.S. Air Force general
• Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator
• John Mercer Langston, public official, diplomat, educator
• Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier
• Thurgood Marshall, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader
• Kweisi Mfume, politician, NAACP leader
• Parren Mitchell, U.S. politician
• Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer and government official
• Barack Obama, U.S. politician
• P. B. S. Pinchback, U.S. politician
• Colin Powell, U.S. army general and public official
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician and clergyman
• Joseph Rainey, U.S. politician
• A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
• Charles Rangel, U.S. politician
• Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician
• Condoleezza Rice, diplomat, professor
• Myra C. Selby, attorney, Indiana jurist
• Robert Smalls, U.S. captain in the Union navy and politician
• Carl B. Stokes, American political leader
• Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S.. Supreme Court
• Harold Washington, American politician
• J. C. Watts, politician
• Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official
• Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit, labor organizer

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