Claude Black
He was known throughout the south for his civil rights activism. In the late 1950s and 1960s he led and organized marches throughout the state of Texas. While addressing a city council meeting in 1952, he was ignored and called a "nigger" on the open microphone. He became an associate with A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Ella Baker, and many others.