Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister,activist,and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A Black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr.,King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
Coretta Scott King was an American author,activist,and civil rights leader and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death. As an advocate for African-American equality,she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly active in the American civil rights movement.
Herschel Junior Walker is an American former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He was also the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia.
Martin Luther King III is an American human rights activist,philanthropist and advocate. The elder son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King,King served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1997 to 2004.
Bernice Albertine King is an American lawyer,minister,and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was five years old when her father died in 1968. In her adolescence,King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father. King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Twenty years after her father was assassinated,she preached her trial sermon,inspired by her parents' activism.
The March for Life is an annual rally and march against the practice and legality of abortion,held in Washington,D.C.,either on or around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade,a decision legalizing abortion nationwide which was issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court. The participants in the march have advocated the overturning of Roe v. Wade,which happened at the end of the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24,2022. It is a major gathering of the anti-abortion movement in the United States and it is organized by the March for Life Education and Defense Fund.
Xernona Clayton Brady is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. During the Civil Rights Movement,she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference,where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Later,Clayton went into television,where she became the first African American from the southern United States to host a daily prime time talk show. She became corporate vice president for Turner Broadcasting.
Alfred Daniel Williams King was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He was the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr. and the younger son of Martin Luther King Sr.
Vernon Angus Jones is an American politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001 and from 2017 to 2021.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the U.S. by supporting anti-abortion politicians,primarily women,through its SBA Pro-Life America Candidate Fund political action committee.
Maafa 21:Black Genocide in 21st Century America is an anti-abortion documentary film produced by anti-abortion activist Mark Crutcher in 2009. The film,which has been enthusiastically received by anti-abortion activists,argues that the modern-day prevalence of abortion among African Americans is rooted in an attempted genocide or the maafa of black people. The film is part of an anti-abortion,anti-birth control campaign aimed at African Americans.
Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) is a 501(c)(4) anti abortion organization that is non-profit,non-partisan,and non-sectarian. It was incorporated in 1971 by Jay and Cheryl Bowman. In 1973,it became the state affiliate of the Washington,D.C.-based National Right to Life Committee in response to the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion.
The Restoring Honor rally was held August 28,2010 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,D.C.,and was organized by Glenn Beck to "restore honor in America" and to raise funds for the non-profit Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Billed as a "celebration of America's heroes and heritage," several veterans were honored. Along with Beck,the speakers included former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and activist Alveda King,a niece of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is a United States-based anti-abortion campaign of two larger organizations,Priests for Life and Anglicans for Life. It was co-founded in 2003 by Janet Morana,Executive Director of Priests for Life,and Georgette Forney,President of Anglicans for Life.
Amie Beth Dickinson Shaver is an American conservative political activist and beauty pageant titleholder from Shelby County,Alabama,who was named Miss Alabama 1994. She succeeded to the title after Heather Whitestone,the original titleholder,was named Miss America 1995.
Black liberalism,also known as African-American liberalism,is a political and social philosophy within the United States of America's African-American community that aligns with primarily liberalism,most commonly associated with the Democratic Party. Modern liberalism is a core value of the Democratic Party,which has consistently received 85–95% of the African-American vote since the 1960s due to the support of the Civil Rights Movement by U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is a 1989 autobiography written by civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. The book charts his life and work with his best friend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in their leadership of the Civil Rights Movement to help African Americans obtain equal rights with white Americans. His book engendered much controversy due to Abernathy's allegations of King's infidelity the night before he was assassinated.
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa is an American anti-abortion activist. She is the founder of the anti-abortion organization New Wave Feminists. She is also a frequent op-ed contributor for The Dallas Morning News.
Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021. Loeffler was chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt,a subsidiary of commodity and financial service provider Intercontinental Exchange,of which her husband,Jeffrey Sprecher,is CEO. She is a former co-owner of the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Loeffler is a member of the Republican Party.
Angela Stanton-King is an American author,television personality and conservative speaker based in Atlanta,Georgia. She spent two years in prison for conspiracy and was later pardoned by President Donald Trump a decade after serving her sentence. She subsequently became a media personality and was a main cast member on the third season of the BET docuseries From the Bottom Up. She was the Republican candidate for Georgia's 5th congressional district in the 2020 election,losing to Democrat Nikema Williams. Stanton-King has shown support for QAnon,which espouses a number of far-right conspiracy theories.
