HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON Characters - Alphabetical

FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION Juanita Abernathy Ralph Abernathy's wife. Ralph D. Abernathy American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. Sam Adams 4th Governor of Massachusetts. Samuel Adams Leader of the Massachusetts' radicals. Jane Addams One of the members of the Fellowship Reconciliation. Mark Antony Roman politician and general. R. W. Apple Jr. An associate editor at The New York Times. Raymond Arsenault American historian and academic in Florida. Ella Baker African-American civil rights and human rights activist. James Baldwin American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. Julian Band SNCC's communications director. Ross Barnett Governor of Mississippi. Marion Barry American politician and former mayor of the District of Columbia. Harry Belafonte Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. R. Schwerner Bender Civil rights activist and lawyer. Mary McLeod Bethune American educator and civil rights leader. James Bevel A minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Albert Bigelow A pacifist and former United States Navy Commander. Hugo Black U.S. Supreme Court justice. Julian Bond An old and intimate friend of Lewis. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident. Muriel Bowser Served as the eighth mayor of the District of Columbia. Taylor Branch American author and historian. Thomas Brewer African-American physician. Catherine B. Brooks American civil rights movement activist and teacher. Margaret Clay Brooks A woman who was injured during Alabama attacked. William J. Bryan United States Secretary of State. John Bunyan English writer and Puritan preacher. Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish statesman and political theorist. J. MacGregor Burns American historian and political scientist. George H. W. Bush 41st President of the United States. George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States. Laura Bush Former First Lady of the United States. Angeline Butler A young Fisk student from South Carolina. Julius Caesar Roman general, statesman and dictator. Will Davis Campbell A Baptist minister, lecturer, and activist. Gordon R. Carey A field director of the Congress of Racial Equality in New York. Stokely Carmichael A civil rights activist and the leader of Black nationalism in the US. Clayborne Carson American historian. Frank Carter Lewis' great-grandfather. Jimmy Carter 39th U.S. President. Otis Carter Lewis' uncle. George W. Carver American agricultural scientist and inventor. W. J. Cash American writer. Joe Caverno A white driver. James Chaney American activist. Frank Church American lawyer served as a United States Senator from Idaho. Caesar A. W. Clark A revered pastor and an African-American community leader. Jim Clark A sheriff Kenneth Clark African American who obtain a doctorate degrees in psychology. Mamie Clark A psychologist, known for her research on race, and child development. Septima P. Clark African American educator and civil rights activist. Xernona Clayton American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States. Hillary Clinton American politician. John Cloud Professor in the NSA Dept. of the U.S. Naval War College. Robert Coles American author, child psychiatrist, professor at Harvard Univ. Addie Mae Collins One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. Joseph M. Conley FBI Special Agent. John Connally 39th Governor of Texas. Bull Connor Birmingham commissioner during the Civil Rights Movement. J. S. Copeland A major figure in Troy. Aka: Big Josh. J. S. Copeland Jr. Eddie's employer. aka: Little Josh. Nicolaus Copernicus A Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer. Maureen Corr Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary. John H. Cross A church pastor. Phyllis Cunningham A nurse who was with SNCC. Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States. Dorothy Day American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. Alexis de Tocqueville French political thinker and historian. Eugene V. Debs American socialist, political activist, trade unionist. Cartha DeLoach Deputy associate director of the FBI of the United States. Ella C. Demand A Sunday school teacher. David J. Dennis A civil rights activist active in the movement since the 1960s. Paul Dietrich A Freedom Rider. William Doar The chief lawyer in the Department of Justice Civil Rights division. Carolyn B. Donham The woman who is infamous for the murder of Emmett Till. John Douglas Robert Kennedy's assistant. Frederick Douglass American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Daniel Doyle One of FBI special agents. W. E. B. Du Bois American sociologist, historian, activist and writer. Dr. Isabel Dumont Lewis' physician. Andrew Dys A longtime reporter and columnist at The Herald. James Eastland American politician from the state of Mississippi. James Eastland American politician who served as U.S. senator from Mississippi. Marian Wright Edelman American children's rights activist. Willie Edwards Jr. African American who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th president of the United States. Buford Ellington American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee. Medgar Evers The Mississippi's field secretary for the NAACP. Frantz Fanon French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher. James Farmer American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Orval Faubus 36th governor of Arkansas. William Faulkner American writer and Nobel Prize laureate. James Ferman American television director. Lewis's SNCC's colleague. Harold M. Fleming American financial writer and political economist. George Floyd African American man killed during an arrest. Eric Foner American historian. James Forman American civil rights leader; Nathan B. Forrest Confederate Army General and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Marshall Frady American Emmy Award-winning journalist and author. Aretha Franklin American singer-songwriter. Rev. C. L. Franklin African-American Baptist preacher and civil rights activist. Douglas Frazier A senior pastor of Baptist church. MacDonald Gallion 38th Attorney General of Alabama. Mahatma Gandhi Pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during the British Raj. William Lloyd Garrison American journalist and abolitionist. Marcus Garvey Jamaican activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. Marvin Gaye American singer-songwriter and musician. Barry Goldwater A five-term Senator from Arizona. Paul Good A writer. Andrew Goodman American civil rights activist Richard Goodwin American writer and presidential advisor. Albert Gore Sr. Served as a U.S. Rep. and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Jack Gould The New York Times' TV critic. Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States. Elmyra Gray One of Lewis' fellow students. Fred Gray The secretary of the new Montgomery Improvement Association. David Halberstam American writer, journalist, historian. Alex Haley American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist. Fannie Lou Hamer American civil rights activist. Charles V. Hamilton A political scientist, civil rights leader. Vincent Harding African-American historian and theologian. John Marshall Harlan U. S. Union Army officer and Supreme Court Associate Justice. Richard Harris African American pharmacist. Coreen Harvey A woman who manage the library at Pike County Training School. George W. F. Hegel German philosopher. Chris Heinz A former mayor of Selma. Patrick Henry American attorney, planter, politician, and orator. A. M. Hickman A white grocer from Troy. Adolf Hitler Leader of the Nazi Party. Richard Hofstadter American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Len Holt A civil rights lawyer. J. Edgar Hoover The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. Lena Horne American singer, actress, civil rights activist. Myles Horton American educator, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School. Jeanette Howard A 16th year-old girl had been kicked in the head by a horse. Julia Ward Howe American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Genevieve Hughes American civil rights activist. Hubert Humphrey 38th Vice President of the United States. Chet Huntley American television newscaster. Jimmie Lee Jackson African American veteran and civil rights activist. Mahalia Jackson A singer. Sullivan Jackson A Selma dentist. James E. Jackson Jr. The leader of the Communist Party USA for many years. William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist. Jacob Javits A liberal Republican senator from New York. Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States. Walter Jenkins American political aide to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Andrew Johnson 17th President of the United States. Helen Johnson Lewis' first girlfriend. Lyndon B. Johnson 36th president of the United States. Mordecai W. Johnson President of Howard University. Frank M. Johnson Jr. The Montgomery- based federal judge. Paul B. Johnson Jr. American attorney serving as Mississippi governor. Fred Jones Parchman's superintendent. Peniel E. Joseph A historian. Estes Kefauver Served as a U.S. Rep. and a U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Murray Kempton American journalist and social and political commentator. Ibram X. Kendi American author and historian. John F. Kennedy 31th president of the United States. Robert Kennedy Served as the 64th U.S. Attorney General and as a U.S. Senator. Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife. Martin Luther King, Jr. African American Baptist minister and activist. Henry Knox Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War. Fiorello La Guardia Served three terms as mayor of New York City. Bernard LaFayette,Jr. A Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator and lecturer. Rev. B. D. Lambert A preacher. David Lawrence 37th Governor of Pennsylvania. James M. Lawson John Lewis' teacher. James Morris Lawson The field secretary for the Fellowship Reconciliation. Harper Lee American author. Robert E. Lee The leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War. George B. Leonard American writer, editor, and educator. Stanley Levison Jewish attorney who became King's adviser. Edward Lewis Willie Mae's husband. aka: Eddie. John Robert Lewis American politician, statesman, and civil rights activist. John-Miles Lewis Lillian and Lewis' adopted son. Abraham Lincoln 16th president of the United States. Viola Liuzzo American civil rights activist. Z. Alexander Looby A lawyer in Nashville, who was active in the Civil Rights Movement. Stuart H. Loory American journalist and educator. Joe Louis American boxer who reigned as heavyweight champion for 11yrs. Joseph Lowery The president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Autherine Lucy The first African-American student to attend the Univ. of Alabama. John H. Lupton One of FBI special agents. Shirley MacClaine American actress, singer, author, activist. James Madison 5th President of the United States. Dela Mae Lewis' cousin. Della Mae Lewis' cousin. Horace Mann American educational reformer and Whig politician. Thurgood Marshall The first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Martin E. Marty American historian of religion, educator, author, and theologian. Charles Mauldin One of the civil rights marchers. Curtis Mayfield American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Joseph McCarthy American lawyer served as U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Frank McGee American television journalist. Carol Denise McNair One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. Charles A.J. McPherson The secretary of the Birmingham's branch of MAACP. James Meredith American civil rights movement figure, writer, political adviser. Thomas Merton American writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist. Robert B. Meyner Governor of New Jersey. Lillian Miles Lewis' wife. Jack Minnis The founder and director of opposition research for the SNCC. Douglas E. Moore A Methodist minister. Maryann Morgan One of Lewis' fellow students. Gouverneur Morris American statesman, and Founding Father of the United States. Bob Moses American educator and civil rights activist. Otis Moss Jr. American pastor, theologian, speaker, author, and activist. Elijah Muhammad Leader of the black separatist religious movement. Edward R. Murrow American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. Diane Nash Lewis fellow students and activist. Reinhold Niebuhr A Protestant theologian. Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States. Barack Obama 44th President of the United States. Theodore Parker An abolitionist. Rosa Parks American activist in the civil rights movement. John Patterson 44th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Walker Percy One of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century. Joe Perkins A reporter and anchor as well as a radio host at CTV Vancouver. Edmund Pettus American lawyer and politician. Wendell Phillips American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator. Edward A. Pollard American journalist, historian and political writer. Fay Bellamy Powell African-American civil rights activist. John Lewis Powell A faithful Methodist and one of officers of the local church. Carleton Putnam American businessman and writer. A. Philip Randolph Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician. Joseph L. Rauh Jr. One of the U.S.' foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers. Walter Rauschenbusch American theologian and Baptist pastor. Ronald Reagan 40th President of the United States. James Reeb American activist and minister. George E. Reedy White House Press Secretary. Richard Reeves Kennedy's biographer. John Reilly A Justice Departmen official and Kennedy's friend. Walter Reuther American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist. Willie Ricks Civil rights activist and community organizer. Willie C. Robertson An SNCC activist. Amelia B. Robinson The leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Carole Robinson One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. Jackie Robinson First Black baseball player to play in the American major league. Jimmy George Robinson Klansmen from the Dallas suburb of Garland. Nelson Rockefeller 41st Vice Pres. of U.S. and four-term governor of New York. George L. Rockwell American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party. Eleanor Roosevelt Former First Lady of the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States. Al Rosen Assistant FBI director. Josiah Royce American philosophe and the founder of American idealism. Richard Russell Jr. United States Senator from Georgia. Richard Russell Jr. 66th Governor of Georgia before serving in the U. S. Senate. Bayard Rustin American civil rights activist and gay rights activist. Harrison Salisbury American journalist and the first regular correspondent in Moscow. Jean-Paul Sartre French philosopher, novelist, screenwriter, political activist. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A social historian at Ohio State University and Harvard University. Michael Schwerner American civil rights activist. Dred Scott Enslaved African-American man. L. S. Sedberry The ABT's executive secretary. Pete Seeger American singer and advocate for civil rights, peace, and equality. John Seigenthaler American journalist, writer, and political figure. William Shakespeare English playwright and poet. Walter Sheridan US federal investigator. William L. Shirer American journalist and war correspondent. Sargent Shriver American diplomat, politician and activist. Fred Shuttlesworth Baptist minister and one of the South's Civil Rights leaders. Howard K. Smith American journalist, radio reporter, and television anchorman. Kelly Miller Smith The pastor of the First Baptist Church in Nasville. Ted Sorensen Kennedy's counsel and speechwriter. Theodore Sorensen American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. John C. Stennis American politician who served as U.S. Senator from Mississippi. Alexander H. Stephens Vice president of the Confederate States. Nancy Stern SNCC staffer. Thaddeus Stevens Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. L. B. Sullivan Former Alabama public safety director and prison commissioner. Wiliam C. Sullivan Served as FBI assistant director. Rev. Jeff Sunny A pastor. William H. Taft 27th President of the United States. Recy Taylor American civil rights activist and kidnap victim. Evan Thomas American journalist, historian, and author. Norman Thomas One of the members of the Fellowship Reconciliation. Allen C. Thompson Served in the Mississippi House of Rep. and as mayor of Jackson. Henry David Thoreau American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist. Jesse Quinn Thornton American politician. Howard Thurman American author, philosopher,theologian, and civil rights leader. Strom Thurmond Governor of South Carolina, United States Senator. Mo Ti A chinese philosopher. Emmett Till African-American murder victim. Ahmed Sékou Touré The first President of Guinea. Calvin Trillin American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, and novelist. Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the United States. Margaret Truman American actress, journalist, radio and TV personalityand writer. Donald Trump 45th President of the United States. Albert Turner American civil rights activist and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. Maynard P. Turner Jr. The president of Little Rock School. Timothy B. Tyson American writer and historian from North Carolina. Lao Tzu An ancient Chinese philosopher and poet. Jack Valenti American political advisor and lobbyist. Richard Valeriani An NBC reporter. C. T. Vivian American writer and activist. C. T. Vivian American writer and activist. George Wallace 45th Governor of Alabama. Earl Warren Former Chief Justice of the United States. Booker T. Washington American educator, author, orator. George Washington 1st president of the United States. Bruce Watson American writer who specializes in American culture and history. Bernard Weinraub American journalist, playwright. Cynthia Wesley One of the young girls who were killed by a Klansman's bomb. R. Benjamin West An attorney, politician,and mayor of Nashville and state senator. Byron White Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Theodore H. White American political journalist and historian. Theodore H. White American political journalist and historian. Colson Whitehead American novelist. Susan Wilbur A Freedom Rider. Sean Wilentz American historian, academic, educator, and writer. Robert F. Wiliams American civil rights leader and author. Roy Wilkins An activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Clarissa S. Williams Leader in the LDS church. Grady H. Williams A barber. Hosea Williams Lewis' friend. Roger Williams English Protestant theologian. Elwin Wilson A former supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. Harris Wofford American attorney, civil rights activist, and politician. Moses Wright Till's great-uncle. Richard Wright American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Stephen J. Wright Academic administrator. Served as the 7th Pres. of Fisk Univ. Andrew Young American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. Whitney Young American civil rights leader. Howard Zinn American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. Adolph   One of John Lewis' siblings. Augustine of Hippo   Early Christian theologian, philosopher and Church Father. Dink   Frank Carter's son. Edna   Edward's twin sister. Edward Jr.   One of John Lewis' siblings. Ethel   One of John Lewis' siblings. Ethel   Robert Kennedy's wife. Freddie   One of John Lewis' siblings. Grant   One of John Lewis' siblings. Henry   Lula's ex-husband. Homer   The presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Juandalynn   Ralph and Juanita's daughter. Lady Bird   President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife. Lula   Edward's mother. Malcolm X   African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Myrlie   Ever's wife. Ora   One of John Lewis' siblings. Riley   Lewis' family's dog. Rosa   One of John Lewis' siblings. aka: Mae. Sammy   One of John Lewis' siblings. Symmachus   A Roman writer. Tertullian   Christian theologian. William   One of John Lewis' siblings. Willie Mae   Dink's daughter. Yolanda   King's eldest child.