Vip of the Civil Rights Movement

James Addison Baker III is an American attorney, statesman, and political figure.

He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.

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, and a chairperson of the board of the Houston Post.

Barbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

As a Democrat, Barbara was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Raul A. Gonzalez was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from October 8, 1984 to December 31, 1998.

As a Democrat, Gonzalez was appointed to the court by Governor Mark White in 1984 to replace the retiring Justice Charles Barrow.

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

He pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

Héctor Pérez García was a Mexican American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.

He was the first Mexican-American member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and was awarded the Medal of Freedom.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, 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.

William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician

who served two non-consecutive terms as Governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991.

In 1939, White was named as the president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before becoming executive secretary of the branch in 1943.

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