Clyde Kennard
Clyde Kennard was an African American activist who pioneered the desegregation of higher education in Mississippi. After applying multiple times to Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi),...
Category : Civil Rights
Vernon Dahmer
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A Legacy of Courage and Advocacy A prominent civil rights activist, Vernon Dahmer, was born in 1908 in the Kelly Settlement of Forrest County, Mississippi....
Mary Church Terrell
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Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was a trailblazing African American civil rights activist, educator, suffragist, journalist, lecturer, and author whose...
Artemisia Bowden
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Artemisia Bowden, a pioneering educator and civic leader, was born on January 1, 1879, in Albany, Georgia, to former slaves Milas Bowden and Mary (Molette)...
W. Haywood Burns
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Influential attorney and civil rights activist William Haywood Burns was born on June 15, 1940, in Peekskill, New York. He was known for his defense of Angela Davis as...
Dorothy Cotton
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Dorothy Cotton was an American civil rights activist and leader, known for being the only woman in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner circle. She...
A.T. Walden
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Austin Thomas (A.T.) Walden, a noted attorney, and civil rights leader, was one of few African American lawyers in Georgia during the early 20th century....
Georgia Gilmore – who fed & funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Georgia Gilmore started the Club From Nowhere, a clandestine group that prepared and sold meals to raise money for the 381-day resistance action. It took...
Robert F. Williams
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The first African American civil rights leader to advocate armed resistance to racial oppression and violence, Robert F. Williams was born on February 26, 1925,...
Jews in the Civil Rights Movement
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Nowhere did Jews identify themselves more forthrightly with the liberal avant-garde than in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. It was an uneven identification....