American attorney and legal scholar. Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984.

Involved in numerous high-profile cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools.

Academic best known for his work on race and social class.

The co-founder of the “New Abolitionist Society” and co-editor of the journal “Race Traitor”, the motto of which was “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Noel Ignatiev’s academic work was frequently linked to his call to “abolish the white race”.

Civil liberties attorneys who won the landmark Supreme Court case “Loving v. Virginia”

American social workers and activists who were among three pro-Civil Rights activists murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.

Romanian-born civil rights activist.

One of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

American banker, businessman, and philanthropist.

Donated money to causes he saw to be in the interests of his fellow Jewish people. Most notable for funding the Russian Revolution and other military actions against Tsarist Russia in response to their anti-semitic actions.

Businessman and a philanthropist known as part-owner and the leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for establishing the Rosenwald Fund.

Reform rabbi and a Zionist leader in the Progressive Era.

Founder of the Jewish Institute of Religion.

Nationally known public service worker. Superintendent of the United Jewish Charities. Executive director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. Recruited by NAACP in 1914.

American nurse, humanitarian and author involved in the founding of the NAACP.

Educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist.

As an influential liberal Republica, he helped to realize the concept of a unified black movement under the NAACP.

Businessman and lawyer. Lifelong activist in progressive causes.

Close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., who drafted his iconic "I Have a Dream" Speech.