Black Panther Party: community activism; 10-Point Program
Paul Robeson (NFL; arts)
Jim Brown (NFL; entertainer)
Muhammad Ali (boxing)
Wilma Rudolph (track)
Harry Belafonte (singer, songwriter, actor)
Bill Russell (basketball)
*Tommie Smith and John Carlos: 1968 Olympians in track and field; raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the U.S national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Elgin Baylor (basketball)
Wyomia Tyus (track)
Fannie Lou Hamer (civil and voting rights activist)
Rose Robinson (track)
Julian Bond (politics)
Malcolm X (black nationalist; clergy)
Thurgood Marshall (judge)
Ralph Abernathy (clergy)
John Lewis (politics)
A. Phillip Randolph (politics)
Martin L. King, Jr, (clergy)
*Nannie Helen Burroughs: created trade school for Black H.S/college-age girls in 1909
*Dion Diamond: stood up to American Nazi Party as a student activist at Howard University
*Claudette Colvin: 9 months prior to Rosa Parks, Claudette refused to give up her seat on segregated bus; Browder v.Gayle case
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round" (Freedom Singers)
"Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" (James Brown)
"A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke)
"We Shall Not Be Moved" (Freedom Singers)
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson)
"Freedom Highway" (Staples Singers)
"The Times They Are A-Changing" (Bob Dylan)
"Mississippi Goddam" (Nina Simone)
"Message From A Black Man" (Temptations)
"We Shall Overcome" (Pete Seeger)
"Go Tell It On The Mountain" (Fannie Lou Hamer)
"This Little Light Of Mine" (Odetta)
"People Get Ready" (Impressions)
"Keep Your Eyes On The Prize" (Pete Seeger; Sweet Honey in the Rock)
Harry S Truman (1950-)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-)
John F. Kennedy (1961-)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-)
Richard M. Nixon (1969-)