International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame is a historic promenade that honors some of the activists involved in the Civil Rights Movement and other national and global civil rights activists. It was created in 2004, and is located at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. The site is more than just a promenade; it is an outdoor exhibit that showcases, in granite and bronze, the footstep impressions of those honored.[1]
According to the National Park Service, which runs the historic site, the Walk of Fame was created "to give recognition to those courageous soldiers of justice who sacrificed and struggled to make equality a reality for all." The Walk of Fame has enriched historic value and cultural heritage to the area it is located, priming it into a tourist attraction.[1]
The Walk of Fame is a product of Xernona Clayton, an American civil rights activist and executive broadcaster.[2] In the National Historic Site location the Walk of Fame gets around 800,000 visitors a year.[3]
Beginning in 2012, inductions will be held every two years.[4]
In 2019 it was announced that the Walk of Fame would be partially relocating to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta.[3]
List of inductees
2004
- Ralph David Abernathy, Sr., civil rights leader who had a close and enduring partnership with Dr. King
- Juanita J. Abernathy, civil rights activist
- Ivan Allen, Jr., former mayor of Atlanta during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s
- Julian Bond, civil rights leader
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
- Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
- Dorothy Height, educator, social activist
- Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., minister, civil rights activist
- Judge Frank M. Johnson, United States Federal judge
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States
- John Lewis, politician, civil rights leader
- Joseph E. Lowery, minister, civil rights leader
- Evelyn G. Lowery, civil rights leader
- Thurgood Marshall, former US Supreme Court Justice (1969–1991)
- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
- Hosea Williams, civil rights leader
- Andrew Young, civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta
2005
- Henry Aaron, baseball player, social activist
- Harry Belafonte, musician, actor, social activist
- John Conyers, Jr., politician, social activist
- Dick Gregory, comedian, social activist
- Maynard H. Jackson, former mayor of Atlanta
- Ralph E. McGill, journalist, social activist
- Fred L. Shuttlesworth, social activist
- Ted Turner, media mogul and philanthropist
- Judge Elbert P. Tuttle, former chief judge of the US Court of Appeals (1960–1967)
- Nancy Wilson, singer, social activist
- Reverend Addie L. Wyatt, Labor leader, civil rights pioneer, pastor
2006
- Reverend Joseph E. Boone, social activist
- Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr.
- Xernona Clayton, civil rights leader, broadcasting executive
- Lena Horne, singer, actress, social activist
- John E. Jacob, former president and CEO of the National Urban League
- Reverend James Orange, pastor, civil rights activist
- Bernard Parks, politician, social activist
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African cleric, social activist
- William Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
- Stevie Wonder, singer, civil rights activist
2007
- Lerone Bennett, Jr., scholar, author, historian, social activist
- Tony Bennett, singer, social activist
- Marian Wright Edelman, social activist for the rights of children
- Shirley Franklin, 58th mayor of Atlanta
- Frankie Muse Freeman, civil rights attorney
- Joe Louis, boxer, social activist
- Sir Lynden Pindling, former Premier of the Colony of the Bahama Island (1967–1973)
- Sidney Poitier, actor, social activist
- Dr. Otis W. Smith, physician
- Maxine Waters, politician, social activist
- L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia
- Jean Childs Young, civil rights activist and educator
2008
- Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, memoirist, actress
- Senator Edward W. Brooke, social activist, politician
- Tyrone L. Brooks, Sr., social activist, politician
- Sammy Davis Jr., singer, dancer
- Jesse Hill, business executive
- Dr. Benjamin Hooks, established Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
- Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King's attorney
- Tom Joyner, radio host
- The Right Honorable Prime Minister Michael Manley, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Herman J. Russell, founder and CEO of H. J. Russell and Company
- Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, executive director of the SCLC 1960-1964
2009
- Rev. Dr. C. M. Alexander
- Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., entrepreneur
- Dr. Erieka Bennett
- Roberto Goizueta, CEO of Coca-Cola
- Cathy Hughes, entrepreneur, radio and television personality, and business executive
- Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball great and businessman
- The Links, Incorporated, nonprofit organization of professional African-American women
- Sam Massell, businessman and mayor of Atlanta
- Ernest N. Morial, mayor of New Orleans
- Father Michael L. Pfleger, Roman Catholic priest and social activist
- Rev. Al Sharpton, social justice agitator and media figure
- Congressman William L. Clay, Sr., long-serving member of US House of Representatives from Missouri
- Rev. C. T. Vivian, minister and Martin Luther King associate
2010
- Congressman James E. Clyburn
- Judge Damon J. Keith
- Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles
- National Newspaper Publishers Association
- Eugene C. Patterson
- Albert Sampson
- Rita Jackson Samuels
- Congresswoman Diane E. Watson
2011
- Arthur Blank
- James Brown
- Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley
- Bishop Neil C. Ellis
- Leon Hall
- Bishop Barbara King
- Marc H. Morial
- Mayor Carl Stokes
- Congressman Louis Stokes
- Henry "Hank" Thomas
2012
- Rev. Willie Bolden
- J.T. Johnson and the Civil Rights Foot Soldiers
- Rev. Dr. E. T. Caviness
- Dosan Ahn Chang-ho
- Constance W. Curry
- Fred D. Gray
- Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
- Charles J. Ogletree
- Dr. Walter F. Young
2014
- Bishop John Hurst Adams
- Governor Roy Barnes
- John Carlos
- Tommie Smith
- Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister of the Bahamas
- Dr. Norman C. Frances
- Harry E. Johnson
- Representative Calvin Smyre
- Thomas N. Todd
- Rev. Jasper W. Williams, Jr.
2016
- Dr. Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights activist from the Selma movement
- Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, pastor, philanthropist, author, motivational speaker
- Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, pastor, community activist
- Rev. Dr. Jim Holley, Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church pastor, "ministry of liberation"
- Gordon L. Joyner, influential Atlanta lawyer
- Rev. Dr. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock, pastor, defender of civil and human rights
2018
- Jan Prisby Bryson, business executive
- Thomas W. Dortch Jr., national chair of 100 Black Men of America
- Monica Kaufman Pearson, broadcast journalist
- Sir Franklyn R. Wilson, Bahamian businessman
See also
References
- ^ a b "The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame". NPS.gov.
- ^ "Xernona Clayton". NPS.gov.
- ^ a b Poole, Shelia M. (May 10, 2019). "International Civil Rights Walk of Fame will have new home". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ "International Civil Rights Walk of Fame Announces 2014 Inductees". The Birmingham Times. December 19, 2013.
External links
- International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
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groups
- Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
- Atlanta Negro Voters League
- Atlanta Student Movement
- Black Panther Party
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Committee for Freedom Now
- Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
- Council for United Civil Rights Leadership
- Council of Federated Organizations
- Dallas County Voters League
- Deacons for Defense and Justice
- Georgia Council on Human Relations
- Highlander Folk School
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Lowndes County Freedom Organization
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Montgomery Improvement Association
- NAACP
- Nashville Student Movement
- Nation of Islam
- Northern Student Movement
- National Council of Negro Women
- National Urban League
- Operation Breadbasket
- Regional Council of Negro Leadership
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Southern Regional Council
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- The Freedom Singers
- United Auto Workers (UAW)
- Wednesdays in Mississippi
- Women's Political Council
- Ralph Abernathy
- Victoria Gray Adams
- Zev Aelony
- Mathew Ahmann
- Muhammad Ali
- William G. Anderson
- Gwendolyn Armstrong
- Arnold Aronson
- Ella Baker
- James Baldwin
- Marion Barry
- Daisy Bates
- Harry Belafonte
- James Bevel
- Claude Black
- Gloria Blackwell
- Randolph Blackwell
- Unita Blackwell
- Ezell Blair Jr.
- Joanne Bland
- Julian Bond
- Joseph E. Boone
- William Holmes Borders
- Amelia Boynton
- Bruce Boynton
- Raylawni Branch
- Stanley Branche
- Ruby Bridges
- Aurelia Browder
- H. Rap Brown
- Ralph Bunche
- John H. Calhoun
- Guy Carawan
- Stokely Carmichael
- Johnnie Carr
- James Chaney
- J. L. Chestnut
- Shirley Chisholm
- Colia Lafayette Clark
- Ramsey Clark
- Septima Clark
- Xernona Clayton
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Kathleen Cleaver
- Josephine Dobbs Clement
- Charles E. Cobb Jr.
- Annie Lee Cooper
- Dorothy Cotton
- Claudette Colvin
- Vernon Dahmer
- Jonathan Daniels
- Abraham Lincoln Davis
- Angela Davis
- Joseph DeLaine
- Dave Dennis
- Annie Bell Robinson Devine
- John Wesley Dobbs
- Patricia Stephens Due
- Joseph Ellwanger
- Charles Evers
- Medgar Evers
- Myrlie Evers-Williams
- Chuck Fager
- James Farmer
- Walter Fauntroy
- James Forman
- Marie Foster
- Golden Frinks
- Andrew Goodman
- Robert Graetz
- Fred Gray
- Jack Greenberg
- Dick Gregory
- Lawrence Guyot
- Prathia Hall
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Fred Hampton
- William E. Harbour
- Vincent Harding
- Dorothy Height
- Audrey Faye Hendricks
- Lola Hendricks
- Aaron Henry
- Oliver Hill
- Donald L. Hollowell
- James Hood
- Myles Horton
- Zilphia Horton
- T. R. M. Howard
- Ruby Hurley
- Cecil Ivory
- Jesse Jackson
- Jimmie Lee Jackson
- Richie Jean Jackson
- T. J. Jemison
- Esau Jenkins
- Barbara Rose Johns
- Vernon Johns
- Frank Minis Johnson
- Clarence Jones
- J. Charles Jones
- Matthew Jones
- Vernon Jordan
- Tom Kahn
- Clyde Kennard
- A. D. King
- C.B. King
- Coretta Scott King
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Sr.
- Bernard Lafayette
- James Lawson
- Bernard Lee
- Sanford R. Leigh
- Jim Letherer
- Stanley Levison
- John Lewis
- Viola Liuzzo
- Z. Alexander Looby
- Joseph Lowery
- Clara Luper
- Danny Lyon
- Malcolm X
- Mae Mallory
- Vivian Malone
- Bob Mants
- Thurgood Marshall
- Benjamin Mays
- Franklin McCain
- Charles McDew
- Ralph McGill
- Floyd McKissick
- Joseph McNeil
- James Meredith
- William Ming
- Jack Minnis
- Amzie Moore
- Cecil B. Moore
- Douglas E. Moore
- Harriette Moore
- Harry T. Moore
- Queen Mother Moore
- William Lewis Moore
- Irene Morgan
- Bob Moses
- William Moyer
- Elijah Muhammad
- Diane Nash
- Charles Neblett
- Huey P. Newton
- Edgar Nixon
- Jack O'Dell
- James Orange
- Rosa Parks
- James Peck
- Charles Person
- Homer Plessy
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
- Fay Bellamy Powell
- Rodney N. Powell
- Al Raby
- Lincoln Ragsdale
- A. Philip Randolph
- George Raymond
- George Raymond Jr.
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Cordell Reagon
- James Reeb
- Frederick D. Reese
- Walter Reuther
- Gloria Richardson
- David Richmond
- Bernice Robinson
- Jo Ann Robinson
- Angela Russell
- Bayard Rustin
- Bernie Sanders
- Michael Schwerner
- Bobby Seale
- Pete Seeger
- Cleveland Sellers
- Charles Sherrod
- Alexander D. Shimkin
- Fred Shuttlesworth
- Modjeska Monteith Simkins
- Glenn E. Smiley
- A. Maceo Smith
- Kelly Miller Smith
- Mary Louise Smith
- Maxine Smith
- Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
- Charles Kenzie Steele
- Hank Thomas
- Dorothy Tillman
- A. P. Tureaud
- Hartman Turnbow
- Albert Turner
- C. T. Vivian
- A. T. Walden
- Wyatt Tee Walker
- Hollis Watkins
- Walter Francis White
- Roy Wilkins
- Hosea Williams
- Kale Williams
- Robert F. Williams
- Q. V. Williamson
- Andrew Young
- Whitney Young
- Sammy Younge Jr.
- Bob Zellner
- James Zwerg
songs
- "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
- "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus"
- "Kumbaya"
- "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
- "Oh, Freedom"
- "This Little Light of Mine"
- "We Shall Not Be Moved"
- "We Shall Overcome"
- "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)"
- Jim Crow laws
- Lynching in the United States
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Buchanan v. Warley
- Hocutt v. Wilson
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Loving v. Virginia
- African-American women in the movement
- Jews in the civil rights movement
- Fifth Circuit Four
- 16th Street Baptist Church
- Kelly Ingram Park
- A.G. Gaston Motel
- Bethel Baptist Church
- Brown Chapel
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- Holt Street Baptist Church
- Edmund Pettus Bridge
- March on Washington Movement
- African-American churches attacked
- List of lynching victims in the United States
- Freedom Schools
- Freedom songs
- Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
- "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
- Voter Education Project
- 1960s counterculture
- African American founding fathers of the United States
- Eyes on the Prize
- In popular culture
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
- Civil Rights Memorial
- Civil Rights Movement Archive
- Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
- Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
- Freedom Rides Museum
- Freedom Riders National Monument
- King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
- National Civil Rights Museum
- National Voting Rights Museum
- St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument
historians
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