The Rev. James Reeb was a Unitarian minister living in Boston with his wife and 4 children.He responded to Martin Luther King’s call to clergy from around the country to join the march from Selma to Montgomery.

Benjamin Swan has dedicated his life to serving his community and the cause of social justice. From  leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, to his role as an elected representative in the Massachusetts state legislature, he has faithfully served the people of the Springfield area for 50 years.

A celebrated civil rights activist and Baptist minister, who twice ran for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. He was one of Martin Luther King's close associates and was with him at the Lorraine Motel the night of Dr. King's assassination.

In 1838 Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland and fled to freedom in New Bedford, Mass. He became a prominent abolitionist, author, public speaker, and newspaper publisher. Following the Emancipation Proclamation he continued to work for voting rights for blacks and women's suffrage. He was the most photographed man of the 19thcentury.

Rosa Parks (2/4/13 – 10/24/05) was a civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress called “The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. It was on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama when Mrs. Parks was arrested for violating the law by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus for a white man.