Politics, Government, and Law
Blanche Kelso Bruce (U.S. senator)
Ralph Johnson Bunche (political scientist and U.S. diplomat)
Shirley Chisholm (politician; educator; author)
John (Juan Caballo) Horse (Black Seminole chief; negotiator; interpreter)
Charles Hamilton Houston (lawyer; Dean of Howard University Law School; educator)
Barbara Jordan (politician; lawyer; educator)
Thurgood Marshall (Supreme Court Justice; lawyer; civil rights activist)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
George Washington Murray (politician)
Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback (Governor; political leader; newspaper publisher)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (U.S. Congressman; minister; civil rights leader)
Hiram Rhoades Revels (U.S. Senator; minister; college administrator)
Randall Robinson (lawyer; author; civil rights activist)
John Rock (U.S. Supreme Court lawyer)
Robert Smalls (U.S. Congressman; politician Civil War hero)