Henry McKinley "Mickey" Michaux Jr. is an American civil rights activist and Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly. He represented the state's thirty-first House district from 1983 to 2019 and previously served from 1973 through 1977. The district included constituents in Durham County. Upon his retirement,Michaux was the longest-serving member of the North Carolina General Assembly. In the 2007-2008 session,Michaux served as senior chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and chairman of the House Select Committee on Street Gang Prevention.
Marvin Willis Lucas Jr. is a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,who has represented the 42nd district and its predecessors since 2001. His district includes constituents in Cumberland County. He serves as the House Democratic Conference Co-Chair. Lucas is a retired school principal from Spring Lake,North Carolina. Lucas is African-American.
Alma Shealey Adams is an American politician who represents North Carolina's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat,Adams represented the state's 58th House district in Guilford County in the North Carolina General Assembly from her appointment in April 1994 until her election to Congress,succeeded by Ralph C. Johnson.
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist,leader of the civil rights movement,politician,professor,and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta,Georgia,during the early 1960s,he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971,he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery,Alabama,and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2004 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected in a special election after the resignation of Frank Ballance.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,Inc. is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
Avon N. Williams,Jr. was a Tennessee State Senator from 1972 to 1992.
The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in North Carolina. Michael Whatley was the chair from 2019 until his election as national chair in March 2024. It is currently the state's favored party,controlling half of North Carolina's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,and a 3/5 supermajority control of both chambers of the state legislature,as well as a majority on the state supreme court.
Jibreel Khazan is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four,a group of African American college students who,on February 1,1960,sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro,North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers. The protests and the subsequent events were major milestones in the Civil Rights Movement.
Julius LeVonne Chambers was an American lawyer,civil rights leader and educator.
Larry Dwight Hall is a North Carolina government official. A longtime member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,he served as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs under Governor Roy Cooper from 2017 through January 2021.
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.
Franklin Eugene McCain was an American civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four. McCain,along with fellow North Carolina A&T State University students Ezell Blair Jr.,Joseph McNeil and David Richmond,staged a sit-in protest at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro,North Carolina,on February 1,1960,after they were refused service due to the color of their skin. Their actions were credited with launching the Greensboro sit-ins,a massive protest across state lines involving mostly students who took a stand against discrimination in restaurants and stores by refusing to leave when service was denied to them. The sit-ins successfully brought about the reversal of Woolworth's policy of racial segregation in their southern stores,and increased national sentiment to the fight of African-Americans in the south.
James Daniel Bishop is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 8th congressional district since 2019,when the district was numbered as the 9th. A Republican,his district includes south-central Mecklenburg,Union,Anson,Richmond,Scotland,Robeson,Hoke,and southern Moore Counties. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017 and the Mecklenburg County Commission from 2005 to 2009. He served in the North Carolina State Senate from 2017 to 2019.
Reginald Armistice Hawkins (1923–2007) was an American civil rights activist and dentist. He was the first African-American to run for Governor of North Carolina. He fought to desegregate Charlotte schools and businesses.
Frederick Douglas Alexander was an American businessman,civil rights activist,and politician from Charlotte,North Carolina. Elected to the Charlotte City Council in 1965,he was the first African American to serve on it since the 1890s. He was repeatedly re-elected,serving until 1974. That year he was elected to the State Senate,serving into 1980. He was also active in local business,community and civil rights organizations,establishing a reputation as a moderate.
Kelly Miller Alexander Sr. was chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a civil rights activist. He was born in Charlotte,North Carolina,to Zechariah and Louise Alexander. His father was the owner of the Alexander Funeral Home,the only black funeral home in Charlotte. He played football at Second Ward High School,becoming known as "Ship-wreck Kelly." Alexander studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and Renouard College of Embalming in New York City before returning to Charlotte to help run his father's business.
Millie Dunn Veasey was an American veteran,who served from 1942 to 1945 in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC).
Kathy Ellen Manning is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina,presently representing the state's North 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party,her district is in the heart of the Piedmont Triad and includes Greensboro and most of Winston-Salem. She was the nominee for North Carolina's 13th congressional district in the 2018 election,and ran for and won the neighboring 6th in the 2020 election after court-ordered redistricting.
