VIP's of Civil Rights
Barbara Jordan
Leader of the Civivl Rights Movement.
First African American elected to the State Senate.
First Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
James A. Baker
American attorney.
Served as White House Chief of Staff.
U.S. Secretary of State.
Lulu Belle Madison White
President of the Houston chapter of the NAACP
Later became executive secretary of the NAACP
Strong Civil Rights Acitvist.
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States.
37th vice president of the United States.
Declared the Civil Rights act.
Oveta Culp Hobby
First secretary of the U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare.
First director of the Women's Army Corps.
Chairperson of the board of the Houston Post.
Henry B. Gonzales
Democratic polotician.
Represented Texas's 20th congressional district
Immigrated during the Mexican Revolution.
Bill Clemets
Republican governer of Texas twice.
Served as Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Chairman of the Board of Governers at Southern Methodist University
Hector Garcia
Founder of the American G.I. Forum.
WWII veteran.
Served as alternate representitive of the United Nations.
James Farmer
Leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
Pushed non violent protests to dismantle segregation.
Served alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
Raymond L. Telles
First Mexican-American mayor of a major American city.
First Hispanic to serve as a U.S. Ambassador.
Worked at the United States Department of Justice for eight years.
Raul A. Gonzales Jr.
Assosiate Justice at Texas Supreme Court.
One hundred third judge of the Judicial District.
Associate justice on the Third Court of Appeals.