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Benjamin Mays (1895-1984)
Benjamin Mays, Christian minister, scholar, advocate for justice, and an educator, was born in Ninety-Six, South Carolina on August 1,...
Chandler Owen (1889-1967)
Chandler Owen, writer, editor, and founder of the radical journal the Messenger, with A. Philip Randolph, was born on April...
Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
Asa Philip Randolph, born on April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida, was one of the most respected leaders of...
Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
Bayard Rustin was one of the most important, and yet least known, Civil Rights advocates in the twentieth century. He...
Alfred Charles “Al” Sharpton (1954- )
Born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1954, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., is an American Baptist minister and political,...
Julian Bond (1940-2015)
Horace Julian Bond was a scholar, poet, former legislator, and activist in the American Civil Rights Movement. Julian Bond, as...
Samuel Berry McKinney (1926-2018)
Born on December 28, 1926 to Reverend Wade Hampton McKinney and Ruth Berry McKinney in Flint, Michigan, Samuel Berry McKinney...