People during the 1950as

Linda Brown

The plaintiff, or the main person who filed Brown v. Broad of Education of Topeka case.

Thurgood Marshall

The lead attorney for Linda Brown.

Constance Baker Motley

The co-council for Linda Brown.

John Hope Franklin

A historian of the dream team for the support of Linda Brown.

Dr. Kenneth Clark

A psychologists of the dream team for the support of Linda Brown, while also studying the effects of racism on children.

Carolyn Bryant

Allegedly whistled at by Emmett Till.

Roy Bryant

Husband of Carolyn Bryant and lynched Emmett Till.

J.W. Milam

Half brother of Roy Bryant and lynched Emmett Till.

Claudette Colvin

A 15 year old girl who refuses to give up her bus seat in March 1955. No support from the NAACP was given to her after her arrest.

Rosa Park

A Black person who was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person.

Joanne Robinson

An WPC member and a college professor that called the boycott.

E.D. Nixon

A Pullman Porter member and an NAACP member that called the boycott.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

A civil rights leader who leads the boycott and delivering his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

Bayard Rustin

Trained Dr. King with Ghandi’s idea of nonviolent protest.

Stanley Levinson

An attorney with a history of social justice activism.

Governor Orville Faubus

Attempted to ignore the Brown ruling and called in the national guard to blockaded the Little Rock Central High School.

Ella Baker

The founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Sheriff Laurie Pritchett

The person who charged the arrest from the Albany Movement with violating the city ordinance, sent protestors to jails in surrounding areas, and trained officers to arrest protestors nonviolently.

Police Chief “Bull” Conner

The person who ordered his officers to attack the children in the Children Crusade with firehoses and attack dogs.

Medgar Evers

A field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi.