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Founders and Past Officers

Founders:

Brownie Cain, Chicago, IL
Issac Rivers, Chicago, IL
Leroy Brown, Chicago, IL
John Smith, Cincinnati, OH
Arbie J. Woods, Cincinnati, OH
Joseph L. Blue, Cleveland, OH
J. Elmer Reed, Cleveland, OH
 Oscar McDonald, Cleveland, OH
 Viola Crosswhlte, Cleveland, OH
 Firley Carr, Cleveland, OH
 Emest S. Moore, Detroit, MI
 Richard Benton, Detroit, MI
 Henry Hardin, Detroit, MI
 George Porter, Detroit, MI
 James Roden, Detroit, MI
 James Watts, Detroit, MI
 June Watts, Detroit, MI
 Geraldine Wells, Detroit, MI
 Clarence King, Toledo, OH
 Lucius Hundley, Toledo, OH
 Dwight Guy, Toledo, OH

Past Presidents:

1939-41 Wynston T. Brown, Cleveland, OH
1941-44 Jack Robinson, Cleveland, OH
1944-45 William (Gus) Sewell, Chicago, IL
1945-47 Poindexter A. Orr, Chicago, IL
1947-49 Martin C. Kelley, Cleveland, OH
1949-51 Sidney V. Celestine, Chicago, IL
1951-52 Kenneth Morris, Los Angeles, CA
1952-56 Ruben E. Pope Jr., Cleveland, OH
1956-58 DeHart Hubbard, Cleveland, OH
1958-60 Charles R. Wilson, Chicago, IL
1960-63 Eric M. DeFreitas, NY, NY
1963-65 Joseph A. Thomas, East Orange, NJ
1965-68 Virgil E. Brown, Cleveland, OH
1968-70 Preston W. Thomas, Somerset, NJ
1970-73 George E. Hambrick, Chicago, IL
1973-75 Levan Gordon, Philadelphia, PA
1975-77 Alonzo Paytes, Chicago, IL
1977-80 Leroy P. Williams, Los Angeles, CA
1980-84 Joan I. McDuffie, Chicago, IL
1984-88 Alonzo Bridges, Newark, NJ
1988-92 Edward D. Jones, Los Angeles, CA
1992-96 Perry T. Daniels, Carrollton, TX
1996-00 Anthony M. Fikes, Milwaukee, WI
2000-04 Cornell M. Jackson, Lanham, MD
2004-08 Alesia Bryant, St. Louis, MO
2008-12 Dr. Michael L. Boykins, Ridgeland, MS
2012-16  Gregory P. Green, Jackson, MS
2016-21 G. Dewann Clark, Los Angeles, CA
2021-    Gregory P. Green, Jackson, MS

President Emeritus:

 Sidney V. Celestine, Chicago, IL
Martin C. Kelley, Cleveland, OH
 Levan Gordon, Philadelphia, PA
 Alonzo Bridges, Newark, NJ