Carolyn Jean Green
In May 1966, Carolyn Jean Green was one of the first two African American students to graduate from what is now Ouachita Baptist University (OBU).
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Christine Morgan
The U.S. Supreme Court landmark case Katzenbach V. Morgan (1966) addressed the constitutionality of section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which held that no state shall impede suffrage to individuals lacking English language literacy.
Sarah Keys
Sarah Keys, a young, Black soldier serving at Fort Dix, New Jersey, took a stand against racial injustice changed interstate transportation in 1952.
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer is best known for helping to found the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) in 1958 during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Amy Jacques Garvey
Jamaican journalist and activist
Amy Ashwood Garvey
Jamaican activist, co-founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which was the most influential anti-colonial organisation in Jamaica for decades. Co-founder of the international Negro World newspaper, and one of the first directors of UNIA’s shipping line, the Black Star Line.
Jennie Dee Booth Moton
Jennie Moton served briefly as director of Tuskegee’s Department of Women’s Industries and later was a field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
Annie Mable McDaniel Abrams
American educator and a political, social, civic, and community activist who was instrumental in campaigns to rename various Little Rock streets in honor of Daisy Bates and Mayor Charles Bussey.
Barbara Deming
American writer and activist for peace, human rights, and related causes.
Maggie Kuhn
Founder of The Gray Panthers