Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins

male, deceased (1981)
Roy Wilkins (August 30, 1901 - September 8, 1981) was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins...
Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley

female, deceased (2005)
Constance Baker Motley (14 September 1921-28 September 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, and state senator. She...
Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

male, 72 years old
He joined the Navy and served at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. It was there that he...
Elizabeth Eckford

Elizabeth Eckford

female, 67 years old
Elizabeth Eckford (born October 1941) is one of the African American students known as the Little Rock Nine. On September 4, 1957, she and eight...
Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

male, deceased (1972)
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson became the first African-American professional baseball player of the modern era in 1947. While not the first...
A. Philip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph

male, deceased (1979)
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15 1889 - May 16 1979) was a prominent twentieth century African-American civil rights leader and founder of the first...
Richard B. Harrison

Richard B. Harrison

male, deceased (1935)
Richard Berry Harrison was a renowned actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer. He was featured on the cover of "TIME" magazine on March 4,...
Leon Sullivan

Leon Sullivan

male, deceased (2001)
Reverend Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 - April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on...
Douglas Wilder

Douglas Wilder

male, 78 years old
Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American politician. He was the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S....
Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson

female
Marian Anderson, was an American contralto, perhaps best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial...