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PHOTOS: Notable Morehouse College alumni

Along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta’s Morehouse College has produced many leaders in various fields. Here are just a few.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dressed in a cap and gown. King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 with a bachelor's of arts degree in sociology.

December 8, 2015 Atlanta - Herman Cain introduces Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson during Ben Carson For President 2016 Rally at Cobb Energy Center on Tuesday December 8, 2015. Two Republican candidates arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday. Businesswoman Carly Fiorina has lost the momentum that powered her campaign to near the top of the heap over the summer, and she's assailed Obama's foreign policy strategy since the attacks. And Ben Carson's poll numbers have sunk amid concerns about his foreign policy chops. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY SEPT 11 Dr David Satcher Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta poses in his office with the seal of the U S Public Health Service in the background on Friday Sept 2 1994 AP Photo Andrew Innerarity

Samuel L. Jackson, film and television actor and film producer, is on the NFL "Thursday Night Football" set supporting the Falcons with his "Rise Up" glasses for the game against the New Orleans Saints on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, in Atlanta. CURTIS COMPTON /staff CCOMPTON@AJC.COM

Award-winning film director Spike Lee, who graduated from Morehouse College in 1979, teaches a class at his alma mater.

FILE - In this June 24, 2014, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Johnson is ordering increased security measures at some overseas airports offering direct flights to the United States. The Homeland Security Department would not immediately say July 2 whether the increased measures were in response to intelligence about a specific threat. But a U.S. counterterrorism official says American intelligence has seen indications that certain terrorist groups in Yemen and Syria are working on a bomb that could make it through airport security undetected. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

010904 FAIRBURN, GA: Actor Bill Nunn at home with his bass . Nunn is currently living in Atlanta and working on the Denis Leary show,'The Job'. (WILLIAM BERRY/staff)

FILE--Edwin Moses clears the first hurdle in the Men's 400-meter on his way to winning the event and a place on the U.S. Olympic Team during the U.S. Track and Field Trials in Los Angeles in this June 19, 1984 photo. Moses was voted 66th of the top 100 athletes of the century by a selected panel assembled by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)

President Clinton and his Surgeon General nominee Dr Henry Foster meet reporters in the Oval office of the White House Friday May 26 1995 after the Senate Labor Committee voted 9 7 to confirm Foster s nomination AP Photo Greg Gibson

FILE--This is a 1991 Morehouse College graduation photo of Ennis Cosby. Cosby was killed while changing a tire near a Los Angeles Freeway on Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997. Los Angeles Police Chief Willie Williams announced in a late evening news conference Wednesday, March 12, 1997, in Los Angeles, that police had arrested one suspect in the slaying and were questioning two others. Ennis Cosby was the only son of Camille and Bill Cosby. (AP Photo/Howard Bingham, HO)

Donn Clendenon, New York Mets

**FILE**Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson gives thumbs-up signs during a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1990 after Atlanta won a bid to host the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Jackson, who became Atlanta's first black mayor and later helped plan for the city's role as host of the Olympics, died Monday in Washington. He was 65. Democratic party officials confirmed the death Monday, but did not release any details. (AP Photo/Sadayuki Mikami, File)

John Wesley Dobbs, prominent Atlanta businessman.

Julian Bond, 58, the recently elected chairman of the NAACP during an interview Wednesday. The former Georgia state senator becomes the unpaid leader of the civil rights group that has weathered scandal and financial problems in recent years. (Photo by Rick McKay/Washington Bureau)
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080518 ATLANTA, GA: Joshua Packwood, Morehouse College's first white valedictorian, gives a speech to guests and graduates in attendance to Morehouse's 124th Commencement ceremony in Century Campus on May 18, 2008. Jessica McGowan / AJC

100516- Atlanta - Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. '68, receives an honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees. The Morehouse College 126th Commencement ceremony took place at 8am as more than 500 graduates became "Morehouse Men". The keynote speaker was Defense Secretary Dr. Robert M. Gates. Gates, along with Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. '68, received honorary Doctor of Laws Degrees. Dr. Benjamin Payton, president of Tuskegee University, received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. Payton will retire from Tuskegee in June after serving for 28 years. President Emeritus Walter E.Massey, '58, who served the College for 12 years from 1995-2007, was honored with the first time Renaissance Medallion. Sunday, May 16, 2010 Bob Andres, bandres@ajc.com

Dr. Louis Sullivan, founder of the Morehouse School of Medicine and former Secretary of Health and Human Services, will speak Saturday, August 30, at the AJC Decatur Book Festival

Former President of Morehouse College, Dr. Benjamin Mays. (File) 1968

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dressed in a cap and gown. King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 with a bachelor's of arts degree in sociology.

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