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They were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states in 1961 and on. They challenged the non-enforcement of the united states supreme court decisions Morgan vs. Virginia and Boynton vs. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

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She was an american lawyer, educator, and politician who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. A democrat, she was the first a African-American elected to the Texas senate after reconstruction, she was also the Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representative.

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He was often referred to as LBJ, he was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963

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He was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, world war 2 veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder or the American G.I. Forum.

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He was a civil right activist and leader in the civil rights movement who pushed for non-violent protests to dismantle segregation, and served along side Martin Luther King Jr.

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She was a teacher and a civil rights activist during the 1940's and 1950's. In 1939 she was named as the president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before becoming executive secretary of the branch in 1943.

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He was an American Baptist Minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson in the civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968. He is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.

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He was an american statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until he was assassinated in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its civil war- its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so he preserved the union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy