Political Quotes

“I include the following material for the Record: Appendix--Some Prominent HBUC Alumni Leaders of the Past Nobel Laureate Martin Luther King, Jr. (Morehouse), Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Lincoln and Howard), educators W.E.B. DuBois (Fisk), Mary McLeod Bethune (Scotia Seminary [Barber-Scotia]), Lucy C. Laney ([Clark] Atlanta), scientist-educator Booker T. Washington (Hampton), Urban League leader Whitney Young (Kentucky State), NAACP leader Walter F. White ([Clark] Atlanta), writer Ralph Ellison (Tuskegee), poet-lyricist James Weldson Johnson ([Clark] Atlanta), and activists Medgar Evers (Alcorn State) and Rosa Parks (Alabama State). And the Present Writers: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison (Howard), Alice Walker (Spelman), Nikki Giovanni (Fisk), the late Alex Haley (Alcorn State and Elizabeth City State), and Imamu Amin Baraka (Leroi Jones) (Howard). Opera singers: Jessye Morman (Howard and Leonryne Price (Central State). Historians: John W. Blassingame (Fort Valley State and Howard) and John Hope Franklin (Fisk). Political leaders: Jesse Jackson (North Carolina A&T), former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, Jr.…”