Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist 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. 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.
Herschel Junior Walker is an American politician and former professional football running back who won the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award in 1982 and later played 15 years of football in the United States Football League (USFL) and National Football League (NFL). Off the field,he was the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia,and is the presumptive nominee for United States Ambassador to the Bahamas in President-elect Donald Trump's second term.
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.;and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr.,and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King III. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.
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,he served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1997 to 2004. As of 2024,he is a Professor of practice at the University of Virginia.
Bernice Albertine King is an American inactive 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 King was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He was the younger son of Martin Luther King Sr. and the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is an American 501(c)(4) non-profit organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the US,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 an American 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.
Black women have been involved in American socio-political issues and advocating for the community since the American Civil War era through organizations,clubs,community-based social services,and advocacy. Black women are currently underrepresented in the United States in both elected offices and in policy made by elected officials. Although data shows that women do not run for office in large numbers when compared to men,Black women have been involved in issues concerning identity,human rights,child welfare,and misogynoir within the political dialogue for decades.
The Silent No MoreAwareness Campaign is an anti-abortion initiative based in the United States and was established in 2003 by Janet Morana,who is the Executive Director of Priests for Life,and Georgette Forney,the President of Anglicans for Life. It operates in collaboration with Priests for Life and Anglicans for Life to raise awareness about the negative impact of abortion.
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.
The social policy of the Donald Trump administration was generally socially conservative. As of 2016,Donald Trump described himself as pro-life with exceptions for rape,incest,and circumstances endangering the life of the mother. He said he was committed to appointing justices who may overturn the ruling in Roe v. Wade. Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his presidency. All of them later went on to vote in the majority opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,the Supreme Court case overturning Roe v. Wade and ending federal abortion rights nationwide.
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.
Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021. Loeffler was announced as the presumptive nominee for the Administrator of the Small Business Administration on December 5,2024 by President-elect Trump.
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.
