Pattillo, Melba(1941– ): One of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated
Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.(1908 –72): Harlem clergyman and congressman
who pushed for black jobs and antipoverty programs.
Pritchett, Laurie (1926 –2000): Police chief who stifled the Albany
Movement by using restraint.
Randolph, A. Philip(1889–1979): Union leader and architect of MOWM.
Rauh, Joseph, Jr.(1911–92): Attorney who lobbied for civil rights legisla-
tion and represented the ADA, UAW, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
LCCR, and MFDP.
Reagon, Bernice Johnson(1942– ): Albany protester and founder of Sweet
Honey in the Rock, a choral group that sings civil rights standards.
Reeb, James(1927–65): White clergyman beaten to death in Selma.
Reuther, Walter(1907–70): UAW president and financial backer of civil
rights campaigns.
Richardson, Gloria(1922– ): Led an SNCC affiliate in Maryland called the
Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee.
Robinson, Jackie(1919 –72): Broke baseball’s color bar in 1947, opening
the door to integrating other sports.
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson(1912–1992): Alabama State College professor
who helped organize the Mongomery bus boycott.
Rowe, Gary Thomas(1934–98): An Alabama klansman and FBI informant.
Rustin, Bayard(1910 – 87): A leading activist who organized the March on
Washington.
Schwerner, Michael (1939–64): White CORE worker murdered by
Mississippi klansmen at the start of Freedom Summer.
Seale, Bobby(1937– ): Co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
Sellers, Cleveland(1944– ): SNCC program director and black power
advocate.
Sherrod, Charles(1939– ): SNCC organizer of the Albany Movement in
Georgia.
Shuttlesworth, Fred(1922– ): Co-founder of ACMHR and SCLC and a
principal organizer of Project Confrontation in Birmingham, Alabama.
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