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Historically Black Colleges and University and Names of the Program's

African- American General Officers

 

  

Alabama A&M

  • MG (Ret.) Patrick W. Burden
  • RADM (Ret.) Clyde Marsh

Alcorn State University

 

Bowie State University

  • MG (Ret.) Robert Harding
Benedict College
  • MG (Ret) Matthew A. Zimmerman 
  • BG Peggy R. McManus

Central State University

  • MG (Ret.) Fredric Leigh*
  • MG Fred C. Sheffey

 

Elizabeth City State University

 

Florida A&M University

  • MG Eugene Cormartie
  • MG William Russ

 

Fort Valley State University

  • MG Jerome Johnson

Grambling State University

 

Hampton University

  • MG (Ret.) Wallace Arnold
  • LTG (Ret.) Robert Ferrell
  • MG Rudolph Francis
  • MG (Ret.) Arthur Holmes
  • MG Charles Hood
  • LTG Darrell K. Williams

 

Howard University

  • MG Cunningham Bryant*
  • BG Melvin Byrd*
  • LTG Andrew P. Chambers*
  • BG Nowell V. Coots
  • MG Frederick Davison*
  • MG (Ret.) Robert Gaskill, Sr*
  • MG (Ret.) Michael Harrison, Sr.
  • GEN (Ret.) John Hawkins*
  • BG Guthrie Turner

 

Jackson State University

  • BG Eddie Cain
  • BG (Ret.) Robert Crear
  • MG (Ret.) Reuben Jones

 

Lincoln University

  • BG (Ret.) Donald L. Scott
  • BG (Ret.) Julius F. Johnson

 

Mississippi Valley State University

  • MG (Ret.) Everett H. Thomas
Morehouse College
  • LTG (Ret.) James R. Hall
  • BG Melvin (Jerry) Carter

Morgan State University

  • BG George M. Brook
  • LTG Allen E Chandler
  • MG (Ret.) Arthur Dean
  • GEN (Ret.) Larry R. Ellis
  • BG Avon C. James
  • BG Talmadge J. Jacob
  • MG (Ret.) Thomas Levi Prather
  • MG Jackson Rozier*
  • LTG (Ret.) William “Kip” Ward
  • MG (Ret.) Bennie Williams

 

Norfolk State University

  • RADM Evelyn Fields
  • MG (Ret.) LaWarren Patterson
  • LTG (Ret.) Michael Rochelle
  • Brig. Gen. Louisa R. Bargeron

 

North Carolina A&T State University

  • BG (Ret.) Clara Adams-Ender
  • MG (Ret.) Frank Batts
  • MG Charles D. Bussey
  • MG (Ret.) Reginal G. Clemmons
  • BG (Ret.) Voneree Deloatch
  • MG (Ret.) Hawthorne Proctor

 

Prairie View A&M University

  • LTG (Ret.) Marvin D. Brailsford
  • LTG (Ret.) Julius W. Becton, Jr.
  • Vice Admiral (Ret.) Dave Brewer
  • BG (Ret.) James Cheatham
  • BG (Ret.) Johnnie Forte, Jr.
  • MG (Ret.) Julius Parker, Jr.
  • LTG (Ret.) Billy K. Solomon
  • LTG (Ret.) Calvin Augustine Hoffman Waller*

Saint Augustine’s College

 

South Carolina State

  • MG Milford H. Beagle Jr. 
  • BG (Ret.) Nolen Bivens
  • MG (Ret.) George Bowman
  • LTG (Ret.) Bruce Crawford
  • BG(Ret.) Richard Dix
  • LTG (Ret.) Henry Doctor*
  • MG Arnold Fields
  • BG (Ret.) Amos M. Gailliard
  • BG Norman Green
  • BG Kenneth Hubbard
  • BG David Jenkins SCNG
  • BG (Ret) Frederick Johnson
  • MG (Ret.) James Klugh
  • MG Larry Knightner
  • BG (Ret) Julius Lawton
  • MG (Ret) Harold Mitchel
  • BG Ervin Pearson
  • BG (Ret.) George Price*
  • RADM John Smith
  • MG (Ret)  Clifford Stanley
  • MG (Ret) Abraham Turner
  • LTG (Ret.) Stephen Twitty
  • BG (Ret) Twanda E. Young

 

Southern University and A&M College

  • LTG (Ret.) Joe Ballard
  • BG (Ret.) Sherian Cadoria
  • BG (Ret.) Don Delandro
  • LTG (Ret.) Edward Honor*
  • MG (Ret.) Charles Honore’
  • LTG (Ret.) Russel Honore’
  • BG Jude Patin
  • MG (Ret.) Gregory Rountree
  • MG (Ret.) Isaac D. Smith

 

Tuskegee University

  • MG (Ret.) Oliver Dillard*
  • MG Ernest Harrell*
  • MG (Ret.) Charles Williams

 

Virginia State University

  • BG Alfred F. Abramson III
  • BG (Ret.) Shelia Baxter
  • BG (Ret.) Leo Brooks
  • BG (Ret.) Alfred J. Cade
  • BG Charles R. Hamilton
  • BG (Ret.) Bert Holmes *
  • BG James Moore
  • BG William Thigpen
  • MG (Ret.) Ernest R. Morgan*
  • LTG (Ret.) Alonzo E. Short, Jr.
  • GEN (Ret.) Dennis Via
  • MG (Ret.)  Montague Winfield


Virginia Union University

  • MG Mitchell L. Kilgo

 

West Virginia State College

  • BG Frank Bacon, Jr.
  • BG Dallas Brown
  • MG Kenneth Gray
  • MG (Ret.) Edward Greer
  • BG Walter Johnson, III
  • MG James Monroe
  • MG Charles Rogers
  • BG (Ret.) Earl Simms
  • BG (Ret.) Robert Stephens, Jr.
  • MG (Ret.) Harvey Williams
  • MG Joseph Turner

 

*Deceased

 

 

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