Maker Directory

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EducationMakers, CivicMakers

Timuel Black

Historian, History Professor, Community Activist

CivicMakers

Marian Wright Edelman

Foundation Chief Executive

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable John Lewis

Civil Rights Leader, U.S. Congressman

CivicMakers

Carl Ray

Educator, Comedian, Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers, PoliticalMakers

The Honorable Dorothy Tillman

Civil Rights Activist, City Alderman

MedicalMakers, CivicMakers

Dr. Alfred Stovall

Association Chief Executive, Family Practitioner

CivicMakers

Angela Davis

Civil Rights Activist, History Professor

CivicMakers

Ruby Nell Sales

Nonprofit Chief Executive, Social Activist

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery

Civil Rights Leader, Minister, Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Alexine Jackson

Civic Volunteer, Foundation Chief Executive, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Lilliette M. Council

Civic Volunteer, Community Activist

CivicMakers

Charles Stewart, III

Labor Activist

CivicMakers

Lee H. Walker

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Clayola Brown

Union Leader

CivicMakers

Alma Powell

Civic Leader

CivicMakers, SportsMakers

Carl Long

Police Officer, Baseball Player

CivicMakers

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

Civil Rights Leader

CivicMakers, ReligionMakers

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

Civil Rights Activist, Pastor, Foundation Executive

CivicMakers

John Moore

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Gloria Rackley Blackwell

Civil Rights Activist, English Professor

CivicMakers

Reverend H. K. Matthews

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Robert Foster

Federal Government Employee, Federal Government Administrator

ArtMakers, CivicMakers

Georgette Seabrooke Powell

Art Therapist, Nonprofit Chief Executive, Painter

CivicMakers

John W. Mack

Civic Leader, City Government Appointee, Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers, LawMakers

The Honorable Vanzetta Penn McPherson

Entrepreneur, Federal Judge

CivicMakers

Joe Dickson

Civil Rights Activist, Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Joe Hendricks

Civil Rights Activist, Mill Worker, Labor Activist

CivicMakers

Colonel Stone Johnson

Civil Rights Activist, Railroad Worker, Community Activist

CivicMakers

Jeanne Brayboy

Civil Rights Activist, Elementary School Music Teacher, Community Activist, Elementary School Teacher

CivicMakers

Dr. John Cashin

Political Activist, Dentist, Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Naomi King

Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

C. T. King-Miller

Archivist, Cultural Activist

CivicMakers

The Honorable Lucille Whipper

Cultural Center Founder

CivicMakers

Charles E. Simmons

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Thomas Barnwell

Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Emory Campbell

Cultural Heritage Chief Executive, Cultural Heritage Collector

CivicMakers

Shirley James

Civic Leader

CivicMakers, MilitaryMakers

Dabney N. Montgomery

City Government Employee, Tuskegee Airman, Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Julia Purnell

Association Chief Executive

CivicMakers

June M. Perry

Social Worker, Nonprofit Executive

CivicMakers

Robert Bullard

Environmental Activist, Sociologist

CivicMakers

Clarice Dibble Walker

Social Work Researcher, Social Worker

CivicMakers

Ann Dibble Jordan

Community Leader, Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Munir Muhammad

Community Activist

CivicMakers

Toni Carter

Civic Leader

CivicMakers

Myrna Jackson

Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Reverend Gwendolyn Cook Webb

Civil Rights Activist

CivicMakers

Jo Ann Jenkins

Association Chief Executive, Association Executive

CivicMakers

Monica Haslip

Nonprofit Chief Executive

CivicMakers

Mattie McFadden-Lawson

Civic Leader