The Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery came to public attention again when he gave the eulogy at Coretta Scott King’s funeral in 2006 and more recently when he delivered the benediction at Barack Obama’s Inauguration, January 20, 2009. However, Lowery has never been far from the public eye as he has been a civil rights activist since the early 1950’s.

Jimmie Lee Jackson was born in Marion, Alabama in 1938. He was a farm laborer and a deacon in his Baptist Church. He was also one of the little known heroes of the Civil Rights movement.According to some, “without Jimmie Lee Jackson, there would not have been a march from Selma to Montgomery.”

Since the late 1950s there has been a significant number of people who were iconic leaders of the movement to expand civil rights on Cape Cod.

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.

C.T. Vivian was several years older than the college students with whom he demonstrated against the Jim Crow laws of Nashville. By all accounts he was intense, outspoken, and confrontational.