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Eleanor Roosevelt
was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, President Harry S. Truman later nicknamed her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. -
Thurgood Marshall
as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. -
Lyndon Baines Johnson
was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States. After campaigning unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by JFK to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election. -
Orval Faubus
He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis -
Hector P. Garcia
was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. -
Rosa Parks
was an African-American civil rights activist. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
George Wallace
was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms. Obviously for segregation and southern rites. -
Betty Friedan
A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her book "The Feminine Mystique " is sometimes credited with starting the "second wave" of American feminism in the 20th century. -
Cesar Chavez
was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who founded the National Farm Workers Association which is now called UFW -
Martin Luther King Jr.
was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and is best known for his role in the progression of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. -
Dolores Huerta
is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association -
Barbara Jordan
was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. -
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
In 1930 in Salvatierra v. Del Rio Independent School District, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed suit in a Texas district court on behalf of the parents of Mexican American children attending public school in Del Rio, Texas.LULAC’s attorneys did not argue about the differences in the facilities for Anglo and Mexican American students. Instead, they argued that the segregation itself was illegal. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation -
Sonia Sotomayor
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice.
