Al Sharpton
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Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network
Sharpton in 2025
Sharpton leading the first protest march over the murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, 1989
Sharpton at the National Action Network's headquarters, 2007
Jesse Jackson (third from left) and Sharpton (third from right) at an anti-impeachment rally at the US Capitol in support of President Bill Clinton (fourth from left), December 17, 1998
Strom Thurmond
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James Strom Thurmond Sr. was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Before his 47 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of S
Al Sharpton
…genealogist Megan Smolenyak discovered that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed. The Sharpton family name originated with Coleman Sharpton's previous owner, who was named…
Thurmond in 1961
Thurmond as S.C. Circuit Judge, 1939
Thurmond in 1979
Official portrait, 1983