who was James Baldwin ?
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James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, Aug. 2, 1924 and died on Nov. 30, 1987. He offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s.  For more see web site below.
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Lyndon Johnson has been credited with being one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. Johnson does have some distracters who believe that he was merely an unprincipled politician who used the civil rights issue when he realised the worth of the "Black Vote". However Johnson himself claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a "Great Society". It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader. His inspiration was Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (or Gandhi) of India. Ironically, they were both shot dead even though both of them proponents of peace (Gandhi in 1948, Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968).\n\nAnother famous civil rights leader, was Malcolm X. Malcolm X advocated black pride, economic self-reliance, and identity politics. He ultimately rose to become a world renowned African American/Pan-Africanist and human rights activist. He too was assasinated in 1965.
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The Shadow\n\nAlec Baldwin was the good guy.
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Yes, I know J. Edgar Hoover was gay.  It was well known throughout Washington society and in government circles that Hoover was gay.\n\nSome years ago Vanity Fair published a really good article about Hoover's homosexuality.
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Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nI would ask him from where, besides god, he drew his strong moral convictions, and his opinion on the present state of our country.\n\n\nPS: I am not being overly "PC." The guy who asked that questions REPEATEDLY asks racist questions and talks condescendingly of other races. My answer wasn't based on that ONE question. Don't be so quick to judge.
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John C. Frémont PathMAKER of the West\n\nPlease take time to select the best answer.
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Saint James the Just (יעקב "Holder of the heel; supplanter"; Standard Hebrew Yaʿaqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), also called James Adelphos or the Brother of the Lord and sometimes identified with James the Lesser, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity. According to tradition, he was the first bishop or Patriarch of Jerusalem, the author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament, and the first of the Seventy of Luke 10:1-20. Paul of Tarsus in Galatians 2:9 (KJV) characterized James as such: "... James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars..." He is described in the New Testament as a "brother of Jesus" and "in the Liturgy of St James, the brother of Jesus is raised to the dignity of the brother of the very God (Adelphotheos)"
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James A. Garfield.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
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George Washington!  He was a tobacco farmer and also the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.\n\nHe had teeth made of ivory too.
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William Gates III \n\nFor the  whole list:\nhttp://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/Rank_1.html
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it was James Madison. He was president from 1809 through 1812.
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Mark Twain...  anyone from the South would probably be able to answer that question.\n\nOh, and I don't really think anyone believes the points thing...  :)
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If memory serves me correctly, James Earl Ray died in prison of liver cancer.  He was there after being convicted for the assination of Rev. Martin Luther King and remained there until the day he died.
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William Edward Burghardt DuBois, to his admirers, was by spirited devotion and scholarly dedication, an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom.\n\nA harbinger of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, he died in self-imposed exile in his home away from home with his ancestors of a glorious past—Africa.\n\nLabeled as a "radical," he was ignored by those who hoped that his massive contributions would be buried along side of him. But, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths. His singular greatness lay in his quest for truth about his own people. There were very few scholars who concerned themselves with honest study of the black man and he sought to fill this immense void. The degree to which he succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of the man."
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James Madison.  During the War of 1812.
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Thomas Jefferson.\n\nHe wrote the Decleration of Independence, otherwise, we wouldnt be free.\n\nYou bunch of hippies!