Deceased Black Alumni
1826
Edward Jones
1844
Pelleman Williams
1877
Madison Smith
Charles Sumner Wilson
1878
Charles Henry Moore
1879
Wiley Lane
1883
Wilbert Blanchard Lew
1892
George Washington Forbes
William Tecumseh Sherman Jackson
William Henry Lewis
1898
James Francis Gregory
1901
George David Jenifer
1905
Robert Sinclair Hartgrove
Robert Henry Meriwether
1906
Robert Nicholas Mattingly
1907
James LeCount Chestnut
George Willard Johnson
1909
James Blaine Hunter
Edward Foster Newport
1911
Thomas Desire Pawley
John Randolph Pinkett
1912
Benoni Price Hurst
1915
Charles Hamilton Houston
1916
Frances Morse Dent
1918
John Bertram Garrett
1920
Frederick Allen Parker
1921
Robert Percy Barnes
1922
Samuel George Elbert
1923
George Nolen Calloway
Charles Dudley Lee
Charles William Lewis
1925
William Montague Cobb
Will Mercer Cook
Benjamin Jefferson Davis
George Winston Harry
William Henry Hastie
1926
Robert Tillinghurst Curtis
Thurman Luce Dodson
Charles Richard Drew
George Edgar Gilmer
William Charles Thomas
1927
Chauncey Baker Larry
Guichard B. Parris
Hollis Freeman Price
1928
Clarence Reed White
1929
Harold Over Lewis
Ulysses Grant Mason, Jr.
Jonathan Edward Reed
David Willis Utz
George Costin Williams
1930
Joseph Clarence Chambers, Jr.
Joseph Hoskins Harris
1931
Carl Curtis Beckwith
Max Ganey Bowens
1933
James Alphonso Curtis
1934
Donald Gaines Murray
Harry Greene Risher
1938
Elvin Harry Wanzo
Albert Nathaniel Whiting
1940
Highwarden Just
1943
John Hurst II
1948
John Gaines Gloster
Richard Brown Highbaugh
Cyril Archibald Johnson
1949
Toussaint Timothy Tildon, Jr.
1951
Mercer Cook III
Thomas Woodrow Gibbs III
1952
Kenneth A. Brown
Ulric St. Claire Haynes
1953
Amon Nikoi
1954
Fred Austin Culver
1955
Frederick Earl McLendon, Jr.
1956
Norman Carey Amaker
Karl Sinclair Atkinson
Ralph Edward Greene
1957
Harold Cornelius Haizlip
Marshall Rudd Holley
1958
Edward David Crockett, Jr.
1959
Lawrence Rogers Burwell
Isaiah T. Creswell, Jr.
Robert Stewart Jason, Jr.
1960
Leon Joseph Du Bois
James S. Jackson, Jr.
1961
Theodore Charles Jones
Fred Lewis Wallace
1962
Edward Theodore Johnson, Jr.
1963
Benjamin Elisha Boyce
Leon Buster Gibbs
1965
Julian Raymond Davis, Jr.
1967
Jidlaph Gitau Kamoche
1968
Daniel Chester Cochran
Carl Anthony Galloway
Jaafar Kassem-Ali
William Clarence Robinson III
Harold Wade, Jr.
1970
Jamson Sulemani Lwebuga-Mukasa
Uthman F. Muhammad (Calvin Peter S. Ward, Jr.)
Lawrence Carey Ragland
1971
Joseph Emerett Sidney Compton III
Joaquin Bradford Haley
1972
Gregory Allen Domingue
Henry Hart III
John Howard Nesbitt
Arthur Carroll Wilkins
1973
Sidney James Davis, Jr.
George Thomas Glover
Isaac Anthony Harris, Jr.
George Robert Johnson, Jr.
Raffaela Tamara Johnson
Rudolf Lawrence Raines
William Daniel Wooten, Jr.
1974
Floyd Cummings, Jr. (Graduated with Class of 1976)
Kenneth Glover
Franklin Owens, Jr.
Michael Jerome Pierce
Ronald Stephen Sampson
Hector Lloyd Armando Scott
Arthur George Shay
1975
Thomas Harrison Hooper III
Mark Anthony McArthur
Edward Sommerville McCatty
Joseph Michael Miller
Gerald Wayne Stover
Robert Willingham Yancey
1976
{Michael K. Butler}
Floyd Cummings, Jr.
David Lawrence Holmes
Jack Wade Jenkins
Ronald Lee Nabrit
Ronald Heribert Ware
Kenneth Gray Willoughby
1977
Quentin Frederick Atherley
Lucia Irene Butts
David Menilek Goodwin
Shelton Joyner, Jr.
{Michael S. McHenry}
Lloyd James Miller
Gerald Gilbert Anthony Penny
Michael Paul Whittingham
1978
Otho Wells Artis, II
Lawrence Edward Baugh
Charles Edward Blair
Steven Messiah Coleman
{Tommy G. Eubanks}
Jonathan Clark Gatlin
Woodrow Alque Pinder, Jr.
John David Williams, Jr.
1979
Darryl Nathaniel Harrison
Gregory Nelson
1980
Robert John Ellis, Jr.
Gregory Ivan Johnson
1981
James Corey De Pina
Julie Laurynn (Keith) Jarrett
David Gerald McLeod
Eric Nathaniel Miller
Charles Homer Riley, Jr.
Michael Anthony Joseph Thomas
1983
Beverly Elaine Allen
1984
Leopold W. Giscombe
Yvette Cecilia Mendez
Margaret Rose Vendryes
1985
Royal Lester Allen III
1987
Anthony Michael George
Steve Lawrence Joseph
Christopher David Manuel
Etta Patricia (Johnson) Milton
1989
Kevin Lawrence Frazier
1990
Paul Kwesi Bilson
1991
Derrick Andrew Lawrence
1996
Daina M. Howell
1997
Tara Christine (Goins) Brennan
Elizabeth Delilah Fairfax
Monet Elise Hilson
Nicole D. Scott
David Christopher Simms
1998
Jason Bradley Anderson
2000
Dana Alexis Perry-Hunter
Alissa Suzanne Wilson
2003
Kwesi A. Christopher
2005
Renee Marika Chung
Christopher W. Hunter
2006
Marc A. Fuller
2009
Chike Bartholomew Nnaji
2011
Jordan A. Moore-Fields
2013
Omar Wallace Brown, Jr.
Stefan Brian Henry Edwards
2014
Robert Frank Gooden III
Reyane Nafi Jeni Mbaye
2015
Lydia B. Nampeera
Morgan Ashly Venezia
2016
{Kenneth Aboagye-Adinkra}
2024
Kiiren Aamer Jackson
2026
{Abdullahi Mire}
Faculty
Marion Brown
Mavis Christine Campbell
Asa Davis
James Quincy Denton
Jeffrey B. Ferguson
Lucius Weathersby
Staff
Elizabeth "Liz" Agosto
Chaka Ajene
Gertrude Batie
Robert Bosworth
Adolphus Butler
Luther Chaney
Joseph Cooper
Bobby Dodd
William Fisher
Barbara Forrest
Sabe Hairston
David Key
Genalvin Morse
Alexander Morton
F. Dwight Newport
Richard McDougald O'Daniel
Robert Gilbert Roberts
Fran Taylor-Anderson
Charles "Professor Charley" Thompson
Mable Whitehead
James Whitner
Reginald Young
The Civil War Soldiers
Joseph Evins
Charles Finnemore
Sanford Jackson
William Jennings
Genalvin Morse
Charles Thompson (Professor Charley)
Christopher Thompson
James Thompson
John Thompson
The Honorary Amherst College Friends
Those Amherst College Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff Who Fought to Abolish Slavery During the Civil War
Robert C. Follette, Jr., Amherst College Employee - Friend of Amherst College Black Alumni (Long Time Director of Valentine Dining Hall)
Frank Alvan Hosmer (Born November 14, 1853; Amherst College Class of 1875); Ninth President of Punahou School [the Alma Mater of Barack Obama]; Great Barrington High School Educator Who Inspired W. E. B. DuBois to Pursue a College Education: Died May 28, 1918)
Kenneth Joseph Howard (Amherst College Class of 1966), "The White Shadow" of Manhasset High School (Manhasset, New York), Television's "The White Shadow" and Pudd'nhead Wilson and the President of Screen Actors Guild
{William McFeely (Amherst College Class of 1952), Yale University Ph.D. in American Studies, Founder of the Yale University African American Studies Program, Pulitzer Prize Recipient in 1982 for Biography of Ulysses S. Grant}
{Robert H. Romer (Amherst College Class of 1952 and Amherst College Physics Professor from 1955 to 2001) Author of "Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts" and articles pertaining to the Civil War Soldiers of Amherst and the Turbulent History of Phi Psi Fraternity During the Late 1940s}
Charles Milson Stillman (Amherst College Class of 1967), Descendant of Founder of Stillman College, a HBCU; Long-Time Trustee of Stillman College; Two Million Dollar Benefactor of Stillman College
Henry Martin Tupper (Born April 11, 1831; Amherst College Class of 1859; European American Founder of Shaw University, the Second Oldest Historically Black College and University [HBCU]; Died November 12, 1893)
David W. Wills (Amherst College Professor of Religion) The General Editor of African American Religion: A Documentary History Project
The Honorary Amherst Alumni
Robert Purvis (African American Abolitionist Who Most Likely Attended Amherst Academy)
The Town of Amherst Friends
Yvonne John
Amos Newport
Special Tributes
{Lillie Bell Ingram Jenkins}
{Carol Holt Miller (Mount Holyoke Class of 1975)}
{Nancy Louise Holt Miller}
