civll rights activists

Jack Greenberg was an attorney who was at the center of the civil rights movement and argued over 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Greenberg, a longtime director of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, was the last surviving attorney to work on the landmark 1954 “Brown v. Board of Education” case. […]

  Rev. Vernon Johns was an activist and pastor who was known for his soaring intellectual sermons and eccentric style. Johns was Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s predecessor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and is considered by many as the father of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Vernon Napoleon Johns was born April 22, […]

  Memphis, Tennessee is in mourning after the news that native son D’Army Bailey died last Sunday after battling a long illness. Bailey was a judge, attorney, actor and author and an important champion of civil rights in the city. He was the primary force behind the campaign to create the National Civil Rights Museum in […]