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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He lived longer than any other president in US history, reaching age 100.

Rosalynn Carter
First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

Gladys Knight
American singer (born 1944)

Ibtihaj Muhammad
American fencer

Rebecca Latimer Felton
American politician (1835-1930)

Ralph Abernathy
American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)

Trisha Yearwood
American country singer
Avijit Roy
Bangladeshi-American engineer, blogger and activist (1972-2015)
Edward Porter Alexander
Confederate Army general (1835-1910)
Julian Bond
American social activist (1940–2015)
James Alan McPherson
American short story writer and essayist (1943–2016)
Walter White
American civil rights activist (1893-1955)
James W. Fowler
American psychologist (1940–2015)
Ellis Arnall
American politician, Governor of Georgia (1907–1992)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
American poet and playwright

Natasha Trethewey
American poet (born 1966)
Joseph Mackey Brown
American politician, Georgia (1851-1932)
Jody Powell
White House press secretary to President Jimmy Carter (1943–2009)

S. Truett Cathy
American restaurateur, businessman, philanthropist (1921–2014)
Tiffany Grant
American voice actress and script writer
Alton Brown
American chef, author and musician
Jason Carter
American politician (born 1975)

Lillian Gordy Carter
mother of U.S. president Jimmy Carter
Robert Lee Scott Jr.
Brigadier General in the United States Air Force (1908-2006)

Wilbur Howard Duncan
American botanist (1910–2005)
Richard Malcolm Johnston
American educator and writer (1822-1898)
James Henderson Blount
Confederate Army officer and American politician (1837-1903)
Earl F. Ziemke
American historian

Lerone Bennett, Jr.
American academic (1928–2018)
Xernona Clayton
American activist and executive
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American comedian
Benjamin J. Davis Jr.
American lawyer and politician, New York city councilman (1903–1964)
Scott Lilienfeld
American psychologist (1960-2020)
Hugh Carter
American politician and businessman (1920–1999)
Alonso Duralde
American film critic
Pat Dye
American college football player, college football coach, college athletic director (1939-2020)
Louis R. Harlan
American historian
Thomas Joseph White
American philosopher