The VIP's of the civil rights movement

Bill Clements was an American businessman and a Republican party politician.

He was the Governor of Texas for two non-consecutive terms.

Héctor Pérez García was a Mexican American physician and surgeon.

He was a World War II veteran, Civil rights actovist, and the founder of the American G.I. Forum.

Raymond L. Telles was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso in Texas

He was the first Hispanic appointed as a U.S. ambassador.

Telles worked at the USDJ (United States Department of Justice) for eight years.

he first Hispanic appointed or elected to statewide office in Texas

Gonzalez' judicial career began in 1978, when Gov. Dolph Briscoe appointed him judge of the 103rd Judicial District.

James Leonard Farmer Jr. was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement

pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation

Oveta Culp Hobby was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare

First director of the Women's Army Corps

A chairperson of the board of the Houston Post.

Barbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and politician.

She was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, (LBJ) was the 36th president of the USA. in office from 1963 to 1969

He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

James Addison Baker III is an American attorney and statesman

He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan

Lulu Belle Madison White was a teacher and civil rights activist in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s

White was named as the president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People