Claude Black, class of 1943, was pastor of Mt. Zion First Baptist Church, a civil rights icon, and politician.

His main legacy was to secure progress on Civil and political rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.

Then, as the gap was just beginning to close, Ms. Parks, the civil rights icon, died on Oct. 24.

September 2011: Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visits the School and talks to students.

Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who died on Monday, may be the first woman whose body lies in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.

The song was serviced to radio stations to play on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights icon's arrest.

Pastor Black, who would become a civil rights icon and city councilman would invite figures controversial at the time to speak from his pulpit.

His coolness had made him something of a civil rights icon.

Yet his frequent encomiums of the civil rights icon helped soften his image and close the gap in the polls.

That he is also a civil rights icon just teaches all of us not to judge people by our perceptions.