Ebony 2005 100+ most influential Black Americans

Ebony, May, 2005

SONCERIA MESSIAH JILES

President

National Newspaper Publishers Association

STEVEN T. BIRDINE

Grand Polaris

Iota Phi Theta

MARY COLEMAN

President. National Black Caucus of State Legislators

BILL FLETCHER JR.

President

TransAfrica Forum

WILLIAM O. JONES, DVM

President

Conference of Grand Masters Prince Hall Masons

ALJERNON BOLDEN, D.D.S.

President

National Dental Association

MARGARET J. COOPER

President, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc.

GEORGE H. GRACE

Grand Basileus

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

KIM M. KEENAN

President

National Bar Association

DENNIS ARCHER

President

American Bar Association

JOHN W. BOYD JR.

President

National Black Farmers Assn.

ALBERT E. DOTSON JR.

Chairman

100 Black Men of America, Inc.

SAMUEL C. HAMILTON

Grand Polemarch

Kappa Alpha Psi

BETTYE DAVIS LEWIS

President

National Black Nurses Association

DWAYNE ASHLEY

President, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund

DR. MYNORA J. BRYANT

Grand Basileus

Sigma Gamma Rho

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

President

Children's Defense Fund

NORMAN JENKINS

President

National Association of Black Accountants

DR. MICHAEL LOMAX

President & CEO

United Negro College Fund

HERBERT LOWE

President

National Association of Black Journalists

BARBARA C. MOORE

Grand Basileus

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

THEODORE (TED) SHAW

Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal

Defense & Education Fund

CHARLES TEAMER

Grand Sire Archon

Sigma Pi Phi

GLADYS GARY VAUGHN

President

The Links, Inc.

WILLIAM LUCY

President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

ALGIE S. OLDHAM JR.

Sovereign Grand Commander

(North) Prince Hall Masons

RALPH SLAUGHTER

Imperial Potentate, A.E.A.O.

Nobles Mystic Shrine

ARTHUR R. THOMAS

President

Phi Beta Sigma

REGINALD (REG) WEAVER

President

National Education Association

DARRYL R. MATTHEWS SR.

President

Alpha Phi Alpha

ALICE LEIGH PEOPLES

President

Jack & Jill of America, Inc.

MARIE E SMITH

President

AARP

C. DELORES TUCKER

Founder and Chair

National Congress of Black Women

TOGO D. WEST JR.

President & CEO

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

LESLIE A. MAYS

President

National Coalition of 100 Black Women

WINSTON PRICE, M.D.

President

National Medical Association

PEOLA SMITH-SMITH

President, National Assn. of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.

GENE UPSHAW

Executive Director

NFL Players Association

LINDA MARIE WHITE

Supreme Basileus

Alpha Kappa Alpha

JAMES M. McGEE

President

National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees

LOUISE A. RICE

President

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

CHARLES STEELE JR.

President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

DEARY VAUGHN

Sovereign Grand Cmdr. (South)

Prince Hall Masons

DONALD P. WILSON

Grand Exalted Ruler

I.B.P.O.E.W. (Elks)