The Ethics Project is deeply honored to have had the following history-making individuals support The National Youth Summit and to have had them share stories of changing the course of a nation. In few places are high school and college students able to hear from and work with such a collaborative of history-making men and women; those who were on the front lines, those who stood up for humanity and those who created lasting change. Ambassador Young, Dr. Terrence Roberts, the late-Honorable Frankie Freeman, and the late Sr. Antona Ebo are all part of our commissioned documentary prepared for The National Youth Summit by Webster University’s Communications Department.
We welcome to this distinguished list of legends, Edith Lee-Payne, the 12-year-old face of the March on Washington and life-long civil rights activist.
The HISTORY Makers
US Ambassador to the UN, former mayor of Atlanta, two-term US Congressman, minister, Co-chair of the US Olympic Committee, and top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The late-Sr. Antona Ebo, one of the Sisters of Selma who participated in the march across the Selma Bridge and the first black woman religious to head a hospital. (
Dr. Terrence Roberts, one of The Little Rock Nine and co-founder of The Little Rock Nine Foundation. At the age of 14, Dr. Roberts choose to be one of nine students to integrate The Little Rock High School.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette, hired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the Program Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), organizer of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Council, participant in the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rider, Director Alabama Voter Registration Project and current Chairman of the Board of the SCLC.
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The late-Honorable Frankie Muse Freeman is an American civil rights attorney, and the first woman appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, (by President Lyndon B. Johnson), currently a member of President Obama’s Commission on Excellence in Education
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Rev. Dr. C. T. Vivian successor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Freedom Rider, preacher, journalist, author, founder of the C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Lynne M. Jackson, great-great granddaughter of Dred Scott, whose fight in the US Supreme Court for his freedom from slavery set the stage for the Civil War, and led to President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that freed the remaining enslaved African Americans, is a history maker in her own right, carrying the torch of her great-great grandfather, she championed erection of the first statute in his honor at the foot of the court steps where his legal battle began in St. Louis.
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The Honorable Robert Moore, US Marshal, Retired, appointed by President Clinton and following in the footsteps of Frederick Douglas, who was the first US Marshal.
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Edith Lee-Payne, The 12-year-old face of the March on Washington who has gone on to become a life long civil-rights activist. The banner bearing her young image is now displayed at the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington DC.
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Cornell Williams Brooks, Past President of the National NAACP, orchestrator of the Journey for Justice. (NYS 2015 Keynote Speaker