- male, deceased (2003)
- James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the...
- male, 69 years old
- John Robert Lewis is an American politician and was an important leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student...
- male, deceased (1990)
- 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...
- male, deceased (1950)
- Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895-April 22, 1950) was a black lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director...
- male, deceased (2003)
- Lester Garfield Maddox was an American Democratic Party politician who was governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. He initially...
- male
- Oliver Brown was the plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case "Brown v. Board of Education" of 1954. The Court overturned the doctrine of...
- male, deceased (1925)
- Homer Plessy was the American plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in "Plessy v. Ferguson". Arrested, tried and convicted of a...
- male, 88 years old
- Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and...
- female, deceased (1966)
- Lillian Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel "Strange Fruit" (1944). A white...
- male, deceased (2000)
- Henry Barbosa Gonzalez was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999....
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