Civil Rights

Rev. Jesse Jackson - Former Director of Operation PUSH; Founder, Rainbow Coalition.

Grant Reynolds - Played a major role in President Truman's 1948 decision to desegregate the United States Armed Forces.

James Nabrit - Former Dean of Howard University Law School and former president of Howard University. A leader in the training of the early Civil Rights lawyers.

Wiley Branton - Attorney of the "Little Rock Nine" and former Dean of Howard University School of Law.

Roy Wilkins - Long-time Executive Director of the NAACP.

Benjamin Hooks - Succeeded Roy Wilkins as Executive Director of the NAACP, the most effective of all civil rights organizations.

Vernon Jordan - Former Executive Director of the National Urban League.

Khalid Muhammad- A member of the "Nation of Islam."