The Participants

Each link contains a list of organizations and members involved in Alabama’s 1965 Voting Rights Campaign. This list is not exhaustive; however, you can help us expand it. If you or someone you know contributed to the 1965 Voting Rights Campaign in Alabama and they are not listed, please send an email to civilrightscenter@alasu.edu.

Attorneys

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • Albert Turner, Field Secretary
  • A. D. Williams King, Strategist
  • Andrew Marsette, Organizer
  • Andrew Young, Executive Director/VP
  • Ben Clarke, Organizer – Montgomery, Americus
  • Ben Owens
  • Bernard Lee, Rev.
  • C.T. Vivian, Director of Affiliates
  • Charles E. Fager, Participated in Selma demonstrations
  • Diane Nash Bevel
  • Elizabeth Hayes Fitts
  • Fred Shuttlesworth, Rev.
  • Golden Frinks
  • Harold A. Middlebrook
  • Hosea Williams, National Director of Voter Registration and Political Education
  • James Bevel, Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent
  • James Orange, Participated in Black Belt demonstrations
  • Jimmie Webb
  • Lewis Anderson, Rev.
  • Marsha Flagg, Attempted to integrate the Cleveland Ave. YMCA in 1965
  • Martin Luther King Jr., Rev., President
  • R. B. Cottonreader, Participated in Montgomery demonstrations
  • Ralph Abernathy, Rev., Vice President

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Alvery Williams, Field Secretary
  • Annie Pearl Avery, Field Secretary
  • Bernard Lafayette, Field Secretary
  • Bill Hall, Staffer
  • Bill Higgs, Field Secretary
  • Bob Mants, Field Secretary
  • Cliff Vaughs, Field Secretary
  • Dale Smith, Washington D.C. Protest
  • Eric Farnum, Field Secretary-Selma
  • Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • Frances Mitchell, Field Secretary-Selma
  • Frank Holloway, Field Secretary-Selma
  • Frank Smith, Washington D.C. Protestor
  • Frank Soracco, Chose 300 to march entire route from Selma to Montgomery
  • Fred Meely, Field Secretary
  • Howard Zinn, Advisor
  • Ivanhoe Donaldson, Chose 300 to march entire route from Selma to Montgomery
  • James Austin, Field Secretary-Selma
  • Jean Smith, Washington D.C. Protestor
  • Jim Forman, Executive Secretary
  • John Lewis, Chairman
  • John Love, Field Secretary-Selma
  • Julian Bond, Communications Director
  • Lafayette Surney, Field Secretary
  • Lester McKinnie, Field Secretary
  • Maria Varela, Organizer
  • Prathia Hall, Field Secretary
  • Ralph Featherstone, Field Secretary
  • Reggie Robinson, Field Secretary-Selma
  • Silas Norman, Jr., Field Secretary
  • Stokey Carmichael, Field Secretary
  • Terry Shaw, Field Secretary
  • Tom Brown, Field Secretary
  • Willie C. Robertson, Field Secretary
  • Willie Ricks, Field Secretary
  • Worth Long, Field Secretary

Congress of Racial Equality

  • James Farmer, President
  • Randolph Glenn, Field Secretary

Clergy and Church Officials

  • Dr. W. J. Wood, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Board Chairman), Montgomery
  • Elijah Hill, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Deacon), Montgomery
  • Frederick D. Reese, Rev., Ebenezer Baptist Church, Selma
  • Jesse L. Douglas, Rev., First Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Montgomery
  • Larry H. Williams, Rev., First Baptist Church, Montgomery
  • Richard Boone, Rev.
  • Robert Nesbitt, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Deacon), Montgomery
  • William Anderson, Rev., New Elam Baptist Church, Montgomery

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • Eugene Ligon
  • Edward C. McClean, Rev., Montgomery Branch President

Montgomery Improvement Association

  • Johnnie R. Carr
  • Rev. Jessie Douglas President, 1963-66
  • Rev. Solomon Seay
  • Hazel R. Gregory, Secretary
  • Idessa Williams Redden
  • Gladys Williams
  • Zecozy Williams

Attorneys

  • John Doar, Justice Department
  • Leroy Collins, Director of the Federal Community Relations Service
  • Charles Conley, SNCC
  • Fred Gray, MIA/SCLC
  • Jack Greenberg, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Inc.
  • Peter Hall, Birmingham NAACP
  • Frank M. Johnson, U. S. District Judge
  • Nicholas Katzenbach, U. S. Attorney General
  • William Kunstler, ACLU / SNCC
  • Solomon Seay, Jr., MIA/SCLC Montgomery