Category
page 1American civil rights lawyers

Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Tim Kaine
American lawyer and politician (born 1958)

Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)
Louis Brandeis
American Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)

Deval Patrick
Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015

Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.

Jasmine Crockett
Jasmine Felicia Crockett is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
Thomas Perez
American politician and attorney (born 1961)
Fred Phelps
American pastor and activist (1929-2014)
Florynce Kennedy
American activist
Pauli Murray
American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest (1910-1985)
Maya Harris
American attorney and advocate (born 1967)
Bryan Stevenson
American lawyer, social reformer and academic
Oscar Zeta Acosta
American attorney, politician, novelist and activist (1935-1974)
Artur Davis
American politician
Colin Allred
American politician and former NFL player (born 1983)
William Kunstler
American lawyer and civil rights activist (1919-1995)
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
American attorney and judge, and fourth United States Secretary of Transportation (1920–2017)
Steve Adler
American lawyer and politician
Jeff Adachi
American civil rights lawyer
Patrick Fitzgerald
American lawyer
Tom Rapp
American musician
Dudley Field Malone
American actor, lawyer and politician (1882-1950)
Morris Dees
American activist
Charles Hamilton Houston
American lawyer and civil rights attorney

Fred Gray
American attorney and activist
Raymond Pace Alexander
American civil rights leader (1898-1974)
Oliver Hill
American lawyer (1907–2007)

Vanita Gupta
American lawyer
Morris Berthold Abram
American civil rights lawyer (1918–2000)
Percy Sutton
American politician in New York (1920-2009)
Earl G. Harrison
American attorney, academician, and public servant (1899-1955), U.S. representative on the Intergovernmental Commission on Refugees in 1945 and producer of the "Harrison Report"
Samuel F. Phillips
American politician, lawyer, and court stenographer (1824–1903)
Kathleen Zellner
American lawyer
Lani Guinier
American activist, lawyer and academic
William O'Neill
Ohio judge
George W. Crockett, Jr.
American politician (1909-1997)
Tochi Onyebuchi
American writer
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
American civil rights and criminal defense lawyer (1914-2018)

Michael Ratner
American legal scholar (1943-2016)
Roberta Achtenberg
American politician
Wendy Kaminer
American lawyer
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
American lawyer (1911–1992)
Jameel Jaffer
Attorney with American Civil Liberties Union
Wayne M. Collins
American lawyer (1899-1974)
Victor Rabinowitz
American lawyer (1911-2007)
Mari Matsuda
American activist and lawyer
Charles Garry
American lawyer
David Huebner
American diplomat
Will Maslow
American activist (1907–2007)
Julius L. Chambers
American lawyer (1936–2013)
Clifford Durr
lawyer (1899-1975)
Shari Steele
American activist