 Martin Luther King, Civil right leader, Robert J. Abele, founder and brother of Julian Abele who served as the lead architect of Duke University, Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, former United Nations Ambassador Ralph Bunche, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, American Express President Kenneth Chenault, Bobby Scott, C. O. Simpkins, Sr., Ken Blackwell, United States Attorney General Eric Holder, Ron Brown, Vernon Jordan, Arthur Ashe, Mel Watt, and John Baxter Taylor, Jr., the first African-American to win an Olympic Gold Medal.Numerous other American leaders are among the men who have adopted the fraternity’s purpose of "creating a forum wherein they could pursue social and intellectual activities in the company of peers.