William Henry Jernagin was a Baptist minister, civil rights advocate, and Organizer of the Washington Bureau of the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches. Born...
Founded in 1937, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) was a civil rights organization that worked to empower southern black people to fight for their...
Odetta Gordon was an influential American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and human rights activist. Born on December 31, 1930, in Birmingham, Alabama, she became known...
Maude Evangeline Craig Sampson Williams (1880-1958), a suffragist, civil rights activist, and educator, was born and raised in East Central Austin. After she graduated from...
Viola Harris McFerren was a civil rights activist alongside her husband, John McFerren, in Fayette County, Tennessee. Viola Harris was born on October 19, 1931,...