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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.

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.
 
Joe Dickson

Miles College student activist and leader.
 
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).
 
Colonel Stone Johnson

Labor activist and personal assistant and bodyguard to Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.
 
Carrie Hamilton Lock

First African American to attend West End High School in Birmingham.

Merriam McClendon

Wenonah High School student leader and Movement participant.
 
James T. Montgomery

Physician and first Black member of the Jefferson County Medical Society.

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 Volker

1962 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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