Today’s Afro Birthdays ! Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall ! Civil rights activist, Medgar Evers ! First Congo Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba ! Olympic Gold Medalist Hurdler, Derrick Adkins !

Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Medgar Evers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Patrice E. Lumumba; Congo prime minister, premier ministre congolais, kongolesischer Ministerpräsident (Photo credit: Wikipedia)