Politics, Government, and Law

Politics, Government, and Law

1. Blanche Kelso Bruce (U.S. senator)

2. Ralph Johnson Bunche (political scientist and U.S. diplomat)

3. Shirley Chisholm (politician; educator; author)

4. John (Juan Caballo) Horse (Black Seminole chief; negotiator; interpreter)

5. Charles Hamilton Houston (lawyer; Dean of Howard University Law School; educator)

6. Barbara Jordan (politician; lawyer; educator)

7. Thurgood Marshall (Supreme Court Justice; lawyer; civil rights activist)

8. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

9. George Washington Murray (politician)

10. Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback (Governor; political leader; newspaper publisher)

11. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (U.S. Congressman; minister; civil rights leader)

12. Hiram Rhoades Revels (U.S. Senator; minister; college administrator)

13. Randall Robinson (lawyer; author; civil rights activist)

14. John Rock (U.S. Supreme Court lawyer)

15. Robert Smalls (U.S. Congressman; politician Civil War hero)