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Gene Lipscomb (1931-1963)
Gene Lipscomb, also known as “Big Daddy”, is best known for his career as a defensive tackle in the National Football League...
Carlos Alcis (1970-2013)
Carlos Alcis was a 43-year-old father of eight, who was scared to death, and suffered an apparent heart attack when...
Andy Lopez (2000-2013)
Andy Lopez was born on June 2, 2000, and was shot and killed by a police officer in 2013 at the...
Ann G. Atwater (1935-2016)
Ann Atwater is best known for her work in civil rights, and for her unlikely friendship with Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis....
Linda Brown (1943-2018)
Linda Brown is best remembered as the subject of the lawsuit that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision...
Roscoe Conkling Giles (1890-1970)
Roscoe Conkling Giles was the first African American to earn a medical degree from Cornell University, and later went on to be...
W. Haywood Burns (1940-1996)
Influential attorney and civil rights activist William Haywood Burns was born on June 15, 1940, in Peekskill, New York. He was known for his...