Benjamin Pratt profiles JET’s and Ebony’s Simeon Booker, whose life story is in Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement.
Category: North America
Michael Morton
David Crumm profiles Michael Morton, who was freed from wrongful conviction by the Innocence Project and now tells his inspiring story in a documentary
Jeannette Rankin
Author Daniel Buttry profiles Jeanette Rankin, the only person in Congress to vote against participation in both World War I and World War II.
Julia Ward Howe
Author Daniel Buttry profiles Julia Ward Howe, famous for The Battle Hymn of the Republic but also the famous pacifist Mother’s Day Proclamation of 1870.
Glen Stassen
Daniel Buttry profiles Glen Stassen who died in 2014, son of presidential hopeful Harold Stassen and Baptist theologian famous for Just Peacemaking Theory.