North Carolina A & T State University

is led by its first alumnus to serve in that role, Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr., who is the longest currently serving chancellor in the UNC System and the longest currently serving HBCU leader in America. Raheem Beyah is dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering, one of the nation's leading engineering schools.
N.C. A&T graduates are also prominent in public life, such as U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan, the first Black man to lead the EPA, six-term U.S. Congresswoman Alma Adams, U.S. civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson and North Carolina Secretary of the Department of Revenue Ronald G. Penny.
N.C. A&T alumni have long been associated with political activism and civil rights, including Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond. Known collectively as the A&T Four, they staged sit-in demonstrations at the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter, which refused to serve customers of color. Their leadership touched off a national sit-in movement that eventually …