James Armstrong
Filed lawsuit that eventually desegregated Graymont Elementary in Birmingham in 1963.
Jessie Champion
Teacher in Birmingham School System who lost his job because he questioned police abuse of a Black student. Deceased.
Jerome "Buddy" Cooper
Labor lawyer instrumental in raising funds for the release of children during the 1963 demonstrations. Deceased.
Carolyn Cunningham
Student activist, later teacher, who was not afraid to attend the mass meetings.
Reuben Davis
Labor activist and high school teacher active in the Movement.
Frank Dukes
Dukes helped organize Miles College students' involvement in the Movement, particularly the Selective Buying Campaign. Hattie Felder
1950s voting rights activist and self-employed beautician who participated in demonstrations and was arrested.
Elizabeth Fitts
Student leader at Miles College and Tuskegee Institute, who also served as a staff member of the SCLC.
Nims Gay
Leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights choir.
Florida Hamilton
Fired from job because of her participation in the Movement. Mattie Haywood
Movement activist and domestic worker who "came to Birmingham in 1939 [when] Birmingham wasn't nothing but a smoke stack."
Lola Hendricks
Served as Corresponding Secretary for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) and worked, later, for the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF).
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Fiery orator and founder of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), Shuttlesworth put his body on the line many times to end segregation.
David Vann
Mayor of Birmingham in the 1970s, Vann was instrumental in changing Birmingham's form of government from Commission to Mayor/Council in the early 1960s. Deceased. Virginia Volker1962 University of Alabama graduate who participated in the interracial Alabama Council on Human Relations in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.
Eileen Walbert
Active member of both the Alabama Council on Human Relations and the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama. Rosa Washington
Worker at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Birmingham, she witnessed the beatings of the Freedom Riders in May 1961. Deceased.
Lamar Weaver
White minister and civil rights activist who was attacked by a White mob at Terminal Station in Birmingham in 1957. Calvin Woods
Minister who preached non-violent direct action from his pulpit.
At age 101, one of the oldest footsoldiers. Deceased.
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Mrs. Carolyn McKinstry Youth member of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in building when it was bombed in September 1963; participant in movement demonstrations earlier that year.
Rev. John Cross Pastor of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church at the time of the church bombing. Deceased.
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