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TRIBUTE VIDEOS It is our great privelege to honor these African-American leaders who have blazed a trail for us all. It is our hope that these videos will educate those who are not familiar, remind those who have forgotten, and pay honor to those who have paid a heavy price for the African-American community as a whole. REV. DR. JOSEPH LOWERY | REV. FRED SHUTTLESWORTH CARL B. STOKES | FRANKIE MUSE FREEMAN | E.F. BOYD & SON
Lowery is a co-founder and former president of the Black Leadership Forum, a consortium of black advocacy groups. The Forum began protesting apartheid in South Africa in the mid-1970s and continued until the election of Nelson Mandela. WATCH OUR VIDEO TRIBUTE Choose Your Player:
In 1957 Shuttlesworth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (Montgomery, AL), Rev. Joseph Lowery (Mobile, AL), Rev. T.J. Jemison (Baton Rouge, LA), Rev. C.K. Steele (Tallahassee, FL), Rev. A.L. Davis (New Orleans, LA), and Bayard Rustin founded the Southern Leadership Conference. He continues to stand against racism in Cincinnati, where he has pastored since 1966. WATCH OUR VIDEO TRIBUTE Choose Your Player:
Ambassador Stokes was the first African American to be elected to all three branches of government - the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. WATCH OUR VIDEO TRIBUTE Choose Your Player:
Frankie Freeman earned her law degree from Howard University and in 1964 was the first woman appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the U.S. Commission on Civil rights. Mrs. Freeman has served the great city of St. Louis as a practicing lawyer for more than fifty years.
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E.F. Boyd & Son is a family owned establishment that has been serving Northeast Ohio communities for 100 years.
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Young continues his activism in favor of human rights, and is co-chair of Good Works International and a director of the Drum Major Institute.
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Civil
rights activist Rev. Joseph Lowery is considered to be the dean
of the civil rights movement. Lowery began his work with civil rights
in the early 1950s in Mobile, Alabama, where he headed the Alabama
Civic Affairs Association. In 1957, Lowery and Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Rev.
Shuttlesworth is a civil rights activist who led the fight against
segregation as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. On December 25,
1956, unknown persons tried to kill Shuttlesworth by placing sixteen
sticks of dynamite under his bedroom window. Rev. Shuttlesworth
and his family escaped unharmed even though his house was heavily
damaged. 
Carl
B. Stokes (1927-1996), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was the first elected
black mayor of a major American city. Stokes was committed to showing
the country that an African American could be an effective political
leader. 
Frankie
Muse Freeman gained national acclaim with her work on the Commission
hearings and NAACP cases.
E. F. Boyd & Son, Inc., one of the oldest African-American funeral
homes in the Cleveland area, began in 1905. Elmer F. Boyd entered
one of the few professions open to Blacks at the turn of the 20th
century.
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is a noted Civil
rights activist, was the former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and the
United States's ambassador to the United Nations in the Jimmy Carter
administration. 
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