The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta,Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president,Martin Luther King Jr.,who had a large role in the American civil rights movement.
Ralph G. Neas is an American civil rights activist and executive. He is best known for directing a series of national campaigns to strengthen and protect civil rights laws during the Reagan and Bush presidencies. He is also known for chairing the national coalition that helped defeat the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork.
James Edmund Groppi was an erstwhile Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist based in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. He became well known for leading numerous protests,many times being arrested during them. In 1976,he was excommunicated by the church for marrying. In 1985,he died of brain cancer at the age of 54.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,Inc. is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),in which he held the title of Executive Secretary from 1955 to 1963 and Executive Director from 1964 to 1977. Wilkins was a central figure in many notable marches of the civil rights movement and made contributions to African-American literature. He controversially advocated for African-Americans to join the military.
Benjamin Lawson Hooks was an American civil rights leader and government official. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney,he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1977 to 1992.
Modjeska Monteith Simkins was an important leader of African-American public health reform,social reform and the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina.
Robert Lee Carter was an American lawyer,civil rights activist and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is an American coalition of more than 240 national civil and human rights organizations and acts as an umbrella group for American civil and human rights. Founded as the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) in 1950 by civil rights activists Arnold Aronson,A. Philip Randolph,and Roy Wilkins,the coalition has focused on issues ranging from educational equity to justice reform to voting rights.
Francys Johnson is an American civil rights attorney,pastor and educator. He is in private practice as an attorney in Statesboro,Georgia. He has lectured on constitutional and criminal law,civil rights and race and politics at Savannah State University and Georgia Southern University.
Clarence Maurice Mitchell Jr. was an American civil rights activist and was the chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years. He also served as a regional director for the organization.
Kenneth L. Marcus is an American attorney,academic,and government official. He is the founder and leader of the Brandeis Center. He was the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education from August 6,2018 through July 9,2020,after which he resumed his position at the Brandeis Center.
Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an African-American activist,author,journalist,and the current president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. He serves as national co-chair for the political organization No Labels.
William Lewis Taylor was a Jewish-American attorney,lobbyist and activist who advocated on behalf of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and played a major role in drafting civil rights legislation.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States,formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois,Mary White Ovington,Moorfield Storey,Ida B. Wells,Lillian Wald,and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years,leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins.
Barbara Ruth Arnwine served as the executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 1989 until 2015. Born in southern California,Arnwine is a graduate of Scripps College and Duke University School of Law. After graduating from Duke Law School,she stayed in Durham and worked for the Durham Legal Assistance Program and as a Reginald Huber Smith fellow. She moved on to the legal service's head office in Raleigh,North Carolina in 1979,working on affirmative action policies,reviewing contracts,and legal aid programs. In the 1980s she served as executive director of the Boston Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.
Judith L. Lichtman is an American attorney specializing in women's rights and an advocate for human and civil rights. Lichtman currently serves as the senior advisor of the National Partnership for Women &Families. She is largely credited with the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Cornell William Brooks is an American lawyer and activist. He was chosen to be the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in May 2014. He previously served as president of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark,New Jersey,and as executive director of the Fair Housing Council of Greater Washington.
Rev. James Myles Hinton,Sr. (1891–1970) was an American minister,businessperson,and civil rights leader. Hinton was a leader within the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in South Carolina during the Jim Crow era in the 1940s and 1950s;he was a president of the local chapter,and served as the second president of the South Carolina Conference of Branches of the NAACP,from 1941 to 1958. In later life,Hinton served as the pastor at the Second Calvary Baptist Church in Columbia,South Carolina. In the 1940s and 1950s,he experienced harassment and violence from the Ku Klux Klan and/or other White supremacy organizations.
