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USA - Jean-Luc Pouchet The Jean-Luc Pouchet Collection ... James Bevel (1936–2008), clergyman, civil rights activist (Itta Bena) Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South (Tylertown) Curtis Conway "C.C." Bryant (1917–2007), African-American civil rights leader (Tylertown)[1] Will D. Campbell (born 1924), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County) James Chaney (1943–1964), African-American civil rights worker (Meridian) Vernon Dahmer (1908–1966), African-American civil rights leader (Hattiesburg) Charles Evers (born 1922), African-American civil rights leader (Decatur) Medgar Evers (1925–1963), African-American civil rights leader (Decatur) Myrlie Evers-Williams (born 1933), African-American civil rights leader (Vicksburg) Dianna Freelon-Foster, African-American civil rights activist, first female and first African-American mayor of her hometown, (Grenada)[2] C. L. Franklin (1915–1984), Baptist minister, father of Aretha Franklin (Shelby) Lloyd L. Gaines (1911–1939?), challenged segregation at University of Missouri School of Law, disappeared in 1939 (Water Valley) Duncan M. Gray, Jr. (born 1926), Episcopal clergyman, civil rights activist (Canton) Percy Greene (1897–1977), journalist, activist (Jackson) Lawrence Guyot (born 1939), civil rights activist (Pass Christian) Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), civil rights, voting rights activist (Ruleville) Perry Wilbon Howard (1877–1961), Republican attorney and civil rights activist; served as assistant United States Attorney General under President Herbert Hoover (Ebenezer) Winson Hudson (1916–2004) civil rights activist (Harmony) Clyde Kennard (1927–1963) civil rights activist (Hattiesburg) Edwin King (born 1936), civil rights activist, Tougaloo College chaplain (Jackson)[3] James Meredith (born 1933), first African-American student at the University of Mississippi (Kosciusko) Anne Moody (born 1940), civil rights activist, author (Centreville) Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), civil rights activist, women's rights activist (Holly Springs) Donald Wildmon (born 1938) founder of American Family Association (Dumas) Actors and actresses Joey Lauren Adams (born 1968), (Oxford) Joshua Alba (born 1982), (Biloxi) Mary Alice (born 1941), (Indianola) Dana Andrews (1909–1992), (Covington County) Roscoe Ates (1895–1962), (Grange) Katherine Bailess (born 1980), film and television actress (Vicksburg) Laura Bailey (born 1981), voice actress, (Biloxi) Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), film and television (Columbia)