Deceased Black Alumni
1826
Edward Jones (First Black Graduate of Amherst College; Missionary to Sierra Leone; First Naturalized Citizen of Sierra Leone; and First Black Principal of Sierra Leone's Fourah Bay College)
1844
Pelleman Williams (Amherst Matriculant Who Became Dartmouth Graduate; Well-Known Educator, Vocalist and Organist; Principal of the Normal School of Dillard University)
1877
Madison Smith (The First Black Amherst College Student Who Worked as a Slave; Philips Andover Graduate; Died in 1875 After Sophomore Year at Amherst College)
Charles Sumner Wilson (Born in 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts; Amherst College 1873 to 1875 and Tufts University 1876; First Black Student Nominated [in 1870] to West Point; First Black Lawyer [in 1880] in Essex County; Was Later Imprisoned in an Insane Asylum for Making Allegations of Corruption Against a Local [Salem, Massachusetts] Marshal, Died January 17, 1904 at Danvers Insane Asylum)
1878
Charles Henry Moore (Born into slavery in 1855; Ally of Booker T. Washington; Founder of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Died )
1879
Wiley Lane (
1883
Wilbert Blanchard Lew
1892
George Washington Forbes (Journalist Who Was the Co-Founder of the Boston Guardian an anti-Booker T. Washington Black Newspaper, and Boston's First Black City Librarian)
William Tecumseh Sherman Jackson (Long Time Dunbar High School Teacher and Coach Who Shepherded Many Dunbar Students to Amherst College Including Charles Hamilton Houston)
William Henry Lewis (Pioneer in Athletics, Law and Politics; First African American Football All-American; First African American Assistant United States Attorney, Author of book on Football Tactics)
1898
James Francis Gregory
1905
Robert Sinclair Hartgrove
Robert Henry Meriwether
1906
Robert Nicholas Mattingly
1907
James LeCount Chestnut
1909
James Blaine Hunter
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
Thurman Luce Dodson
Charles Richard Drew
1927
Chauncey Baker Larry
Guichard B. Parris
Hollis Freeman Price
1928
Clarence Reed White
1929
Harold Over Lewis
David Willis Utz
George Costin Williams
1930
Joseph Clarence Chambers, Jr.
1931
Carl Curtis Beckwith
1933
James Alphonso Curtis
1934
Donald Gaines Murray (Attorney and Plaintiff in the Case of Murray v. Pearson; First African American to Attend the University of Maryland Law School)
Harry Greene Risher
1938
Elvin Harry Wanzo
Albert Nathaniel Whiting (At 103, Amherst's Longest Lived Black Alumni - Long Time Chancellor of North Carolina Central University)
1940
Highwarden Just (Dunbar High Grad and only son of Ernest Everett Just, the first recipient of the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1915)
1943
John Hurst II (Dunbar High Grad)
1948
John Gaines Gloster (Douglass High School Grad, Harvard MBA, Cousin of Donald Gaines Murray, Class of 1934, Father of John Gaines Gloster, Jr., Class of 1983)
Richard Brown Highbaugh (Tuskegee Airman Who Garnered MBA from the University of Chicago after graduation from Amherst College)
Cyril Archibald Johnson (Amherst's First African [Liberian] Student. Delivered more than 25,000 babies in Liberia.)
1951
Mercer Cook III (Grandson of Will Marion Cook and Son of Will Mercer Cook, Class of 1925 - Cook County Prosecutor Who was a Founder of the National Black Prosecutors Association)
Thomas Woodrow Gibbs III (Phi Beta Kappa History Major Who Became Legendary Headmaster of Episcopal Prep School in the Virgin Islands before becoming Dean of All Saints Cathedral in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands)
1952
Kenneth A. Brown (College roommate and friend of Ambassador Ulric Haynes. The son of a prosperous Ohio doctor, his family home in Warren, Ohio, was bombed by white racists when he was at Amherst. Became a urologist and practiced in Ohio and Detroit, Michigan.)
Ulric St. Claire Haynes (College fencer and a member of the Masquers who attended Yale Law School and later became the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 1977 to 1981. Played a key role in the negotiations that led to the release of the American hostages being held by Iran. Received honorary degree from Amherst College in 2012.)
1953
Amon Nikoi (Ghanaian economist and diplomat. Served as Representative of Ghana at the United Nations from 1957 to 1960 and as Governor of the Bank of Ghana from 1973 to 1977.)
1954
Fred Austin Culver (Warren, Ohio, native [see Kenneth Brown above] who served as vice president of the Amherst College student council. He later went to Ohio State University for law school and had a fifty-year legal career.)
1955
Frederick Earl McLendon, Jr. (Youngest member of the Class of 1955. The son of two Atlanta doctors, he became a lawyer practicing in Chicago for two decades before returning to Atlanta.)
1956
Norman Carey Amaker (Hired by Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund after graduation from Columbia Law School in 1959, Amaker became the personal attorney for Martin Luther King, Jr. and even delivered King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" from the King's Birmingham jail cell to a printer for dissemination to the outside world.)
Karl Sinclair Atkinson (Dunbar High Grad who went to Howard University Medical School and became a private practitioner in Washington, D.C.)
Ralph Edward Greene (Dunbar High Grad who went to Howard University Medical School and became a long time OB/GYN physician in Prince George's County)
1957
Harold Cornelius Haizlip (Dunbar High Grad and Harvard Education School Alum Who Led Many Inner-City Education Related Initiatives and Was a Highly Esteemed Commissioner of Education for the United States Virgin Islands)
Marshall Rudd Holley (New Haven, Connecticut, native, Howard Medical School Alum, United States Air Force Medical Internee, and Long-Time Yale University Medical School Professor)
1958
Edward David Crockett, Jr. (Dunbar High Grad, Howard Medical School Alum and Professor, Jazz Musician Extraordinaire Who Died in 1985 at the age of 48)
1959
Lawrence Rogers Burwell
Isaiah T. Creswell, Jr.
Robert Stewart Jason, Jr.
1960
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.
1968
Daniel Chester Cochran
Carl Anthony Galloway
William Clarence Robinson III
Harold Wade, Jr.
1970
Uthman F. Muhammad (Calvin Ward)
Lawrence Carey Ragland
1971
Joseph Emerett Compton
Joaquin Bradford Haley
1972
Gregory Allen Domingue
Henry Hart
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
Michael Jerome Pierce
Ronald Stephen Sampson
Hector Lloyd Armando Scott
Arthur George Shay
1975
Thomas Harrison Hooper III
Mark Anthony McArthur
Joseph Michael Miller
1976
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
Shelton Joyner, Jr.
Lloyd James Miller
In Memory
Lloyd Miller died on July 20, 1994, in Washington, D.C. At the time of his death, he was an assistant manager at Chemical Bank in New York, having already worn several hats and succeeded in several careers.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Lloyd graduated from Fairview High School. After graduating cum laude from Amherst, he went on to get a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1982. Along the way, he was also a buyer for Lord & Taylor, an account manager for NCR Telecommunications and an operations manager for Manufacturer Hanover.
We will remember that he was a very nice guy, and that his was a very gentle soul, and we will mourn both with and for his family.
Gerald Gilbert Anthony Penny
Michael Paul Whittingham
1978
Otho Wells Artis, II
Lawrence Edward Baugh
Charles Edward Blair
Steven M. Coleman
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
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
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
Alissa Suzanne Wilson
2003
Kwesi A. Christopher
2005
Christopher W. Hunter
2006
Marc A. Fuller
2011
Jordan A. Moore-Fields
2013
Stefan Brian Henry Edwards
2014
Robert Frank Gooden III
2015
Lydia B. Nampeera
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 Keys
Genalvin Morse
Mr. Morton
F. Dwight Newport
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
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)
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 Honorary Amherst Alumni
Robert Purvis (African American Abolitionist Who Most Likely Attended Amherst Academy)
The Town of Amherst Friends
Yvonne John
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