Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

female, 96 years old (Montgomery, Alabama)
African Americans' rights activist, vegetarian, montgomerybusboycott, civil disobedience, American Civil Rights Movement, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient…secretary for the Montgomery
Rosa Parks ( February 4 1913 a October 24 2005 ) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the...
Ralph Abernathy

Ralph Abernathy

male, deceased (1990)
Baptist from the United States, From Atlanta, African American, World War II, Memphis, Kappa Alpha Psi brother…montgomerybusboycott, bus boycott
Ralph David Abernathy was an American civil rights leader. Abernathy was born the son of a farmer in Linden, Alabama. After serving in the army...
Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery

male, 88 years old
U.S. Supreme Court, Methodist, From Atlanta, montgomerybusboycott, Civil Rights, From Huntsville, Alabama…Selma to Montgomery marches, Selma to Montgomery march
Joseph Echols Lowery, (born October 6, 1921, in Huntsville, Alabama) is a minister and leader in the American civil rights movement. Lowery was...
Robert Graetz

Robert Graetz

male
Lutheran, African Americans' rights activist, American, montgomerybusboycott, Lutheran clergy, Robert S. Graetz
Robert S. Graetz (May 16, 1928 -) is a Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, openly supported...
Clifford Durr

Clifford Durr

male, deceased (1975)
New Deal, Virginia Durr, constitutionality, McCarthy, rhodes scholar, American…montgomery, montgomerybusboycott
Clifford Durr (1899 - 1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the...
Edgar Nixon

Edgar Nixon

male, deceased (1987)
African Americans' rights activist, from Alabama, American, NAACP, montgomerybusboycott, Civil Rights
Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 - February 25, 1987) was an American civil rights leader and union organizer, and played an important role in...

T. J. Jemison

male, 91 years old
New York University, National Baptist Convention, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Virginia Union University, Alabama State University…montgomerybusboycott, boycott
Theodore Judson Jemison (born 1918), better known as T.J. Jemison, was President of the National Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1994. He led a...
Mary Fair Burks

Mary Fair Burks

female, deceased (1991)
African Americans' rights activist, social justice, Literary critic of English, community organizing, montgomerybusboycott, President of organizations
Mary Fair Burks was an educator, scholar, and civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama. She was head of the English department at Alabama...

James F. Blake

male, deceased (2002)
World War II, United States Army, heart attack, montgomerybusboycott, From Montgomery, Alabama, United States Supreme Court
James F. Blake (April 14, 1912 - March 21, 2002) was the bus driver whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. EF Blake...

Clifton Deberry

male, deceased (2006)
New York gubernatorial elections, governor of new york, Vice Presidential, Socialist Workers Party, Cuban revolution, montgomerybusboycott
Clifton DeBerry (1924 - March 24, 2006) was an American Communist and two-time candidate for President of the United States of the Socialist...