Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi’s Freedom Summer for Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC), and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Marshall named Thoroughgood on July 2 to Norma and William Marshall in Baltimore, Maryland; shortens name to Thurgood in second grade. Thoroughgood Marshall becomes first African American elevated to U.S. Supreme Court (1967-1991. In 1971 Marshall and the other U.S. Supreme Court Justices guaranteed abortion rights in land-mark Roe v. Wade case. Other achievements: 1930 -Graduates from Lincoln U. (cum laude) 1934 –Graduates from Howard University School of Law (magna cum laude); begins...