Edmund Pettus

Edmund Pettus

male, deceased (1907)
Edmund Winston Pettus (July 6 1821 - July 27 1907), for whom the civil rights landmark Edmund Pettus Bridge was named, was born in Limestone...
Viola Liuzzo

Viola Liuzzo

female, deceased (1965)
Viola Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 - March 25, 1965) was a white civil rights activist from the U.S. state of Michigan and mother of five, who was...
Jimmie Lee Jackson

Jimmie Lee Jackson

male, deceased (1965)
Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 1938 - February 26, 1965) was a young civil rights protestor who was killed by an Alabama State Trooper in 1965....
Hosea Williams

Hosea Williams

male, deceased (2000)
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 - November 16, 2000) was an United States civil rights leader, ordained reverend, and later a politician....
James Reeb

James Reeb

male, deceased (1965)
James Reeb was a white Unitarian minister from Boston, Massachusetts who, while marching for civil rights in Selma, Alabama, was beaten to death by...
Amelia Boynton Robinson

Amelia Boynton Robinson

female, 98 years old
Amelia Robinson was born in 1911 in Georgia, in a family of 10 children. Her father was a building contractor. She traces her history on both sides...
Jim Clark

Jim Clark

male, deceased (2007)
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922, Elba, Coffee County, Alabama - June 4, 2007) of Selma, Alabama, was the sheriff of Dallas County,...
Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery

male, 88 years old
Joseph Echols Lowery, (born October 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Alabama) is a minister and leader in the American civil rights movement. Lowery was...
James Bonard Fowler

James Bonard Fowler

male, 76 years old
James Bonard Fowler (b. 10 September 1933), as a corporal in the Alabama state police, shot and fatally wounded Jimmie Lee Jackson on 18 February...

Ruby Sales

female
Ruby Sales (born July 8, 1948 in Jemison, Alabama) is an African-American social activist. Growing up in Alabama during the tumultuous days of the...