Legends

Thomas Atkins

First Black student body president

Rozelle Boyd

Founding director of the Groups Scholars Program

Bill Garrett

First African American to regularly play on the IUB basketball team

James Holland

Chemistry professor at IUB - The Hudson and Holland Scholars Program is in part named after him

Herman Hudson

Established the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, African American Arts Institute, and the African American and African Diaspora Studies

Frances Marshall

First Black woman to graduate from IUB

James Mumford

Former director of the African American Choral Ensemble and the IU Soul Revue

Marcellus Neal

First Black man to graduate from IUB

Carrie Parker-Taylor

First Black woman to attend IUB

Iris Rosa

Founding director of the African American Dance Company

Jimmy Ross

The first director of the IU Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid and the first African American to lead a major administrative non-academic unit at IUB

Caramel "Mother Culture" Russell

Former director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center

Nancy Streets-Lyons

First Black woman to be crowned Miss Indiana University

George Taliaferro

First Black football player drafted to the NFL

Laverta Terry

Former director of the Groups Scholars Program

Janice Wiggins

Former director of the Groups Scholars Program