Civil Rights Leaders
- 1859 Samuel C. Armstrong (Williams) — defeated Pickett's Charge at Battle of Gettysburg and commanded 8th U.S. Colored Troops, founding president of Hampton University and mentor of Booker T. Washington, honorary LLD from Harvard; subject of Educating the Disenfranchised and Armstrong: A Biographical Study; Armstrong High School (Richmond, Virginia)
- '14 Elbert Tuttle (Cornell) — Chief Judge of US Court of Appeals 1954-68 appointed by Dwight Eisenhower, leader of the Fifth Circuit Four ruling on Southern desegregation cases, Presidential Medal of Freedom, honorary LLD from Harvard, subject of book Unlikely Heroes, inductee of International Civil Rights Walk of Fame (Atlanta), oldest serving federal judge at 98, Brigadier General, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Legion of Merit, Elbert Parr Tuttle US Court of Appeals and Anti Defamation League's Elbert P. Tuttle Jurisprudence Award
- '29* John W. Gardner (Stanford) — subject of PBS documentary Uncommon American, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Secretary of HEW 1965-68 under Lyndon Johnson, launched Medicare, Common Cause, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Urban Coalition, Model UN, and White House Fellows Program, Marine Corps Captain at Office of Strategic Services, head of Carnegie Foundation, Professor at Mount Holyoke College and Stanford, offered Robert Kennedy's vacated Senate seat (declined), author of seven books including speeches and papers of John F. Kennedy, John W. Gardner Center (Stanford University) and John W. Gardner Leadership Award (scholar.google ~ 786) (attended 1920-22)
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