Key individuals

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Key individuals in equality history. Please retain the alphabetical order of this list.

• Professor William B. Allen, former Commissioner United States Commission on Civil Rights(USCCR). Professor at Michigan States Univerity, Co-chair, Towards a Fair Michigan (TAFM).
• Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, former President of University of Michigan, Defendant in Grutter v. Bollinger.
• Lucy Burns, suffragist.
• Professor Carl Cohen, Philosophy, University of Michigan. 1955 - present.
• Linda Chavez, President of Center for Equal Opportunity.
• Ward Connerly, former Regent of the University of California, 1994 - 2006.
• Leon Drolet, co-chair, MCRI Steering Committee.
• Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, 1818 - 1895.
• James J. Duderstadt, President of University of Michigan 1989 - 1995, architect of "Michigan Mandate," and policies later challenged in Grutter v. Bollinger et al.
• Jennifer Gratz, plaintiff in Gratz v. Bollinger.
• Barbara Grutter, plaintiff in Grutter v. Bollinger.
• Professor Gail Heriot, United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) Commissioner, 2007 - present.
• President John F. Kennedy, noted for Executive Order 10925 of March 6, 1961.
• President Lyndon B. Johnson, noted for Executive Order No. 11246 of Sept. 24, 1965.
• Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr..
• President Abraham Lincoln.
• Valery Pech Orr, co-plaintiff in the Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, (1995) Supreme Court ruling & Colorado Civil Rights Initiative Executive Director (2007).
• Professor Abigail Thernstrom, United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) Commissioner.
• Professor Thomas (Tom) Wood, co-author, Proposition 209 in California.

and many others.