A number of notable African American men were graduates. Elder Watson Diggs, co-founded Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Frank Coleman and Edgar Love co-founders of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Cadet lawyers Samuel Joe Brown, Charles Howard, and James Morris would go on to co-found the National Bar Association in 1925. Charles Hamilton Houston, future dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel.

Photograph and narrative source: Jim Crow Museum