- male, deceased (1966)
- "Mississippi" John Smith Hurt (July 2, 1892, Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi - November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an influential blues...
- male, deceased (2004)
- Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 - March 7, 2004) was an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor. He...
- male, deceased (1987)
- Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17,1903 - April 11, 1987) was an American author born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia in...
- male, deceased (1998)
- John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915 - July 16, 1998), born John Henry Clark in Union Springs, Alabama to John (a sharecropper) and Willie Ella...
- male
- Floyd Tillman country musician who in the 1930s-40s helped create the western swing and honky tonk styles of music. Tillman was inducted into the...
- female, deceased (2004)
- Alberta Martin (December 4, 1906 - May 31, 2004) was believed, for a while, to be the last living widow of a Confederate soldier. She was born...
- male
- John M. Perkins is an American civil rights activist. He has worked extensively in the realm of reconciliation and development centered around the...
- male
- Roger Moore is a professional poker player. Moore grew up the son of sharecroppers. He quit school in the eighth grade and soon afterwards entered...
- male
- Ned Cobb was a tenant farmer was born in Tallapoosa County in Alabama. Cobb grew up with a father who had been a slave and had been emotionally and...
- male, deceased (1992)
- Don West (1906 - September 29, 1992), was an American writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer, civil-rights activist and a co-founder of the...
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