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International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
The promenade as seen in 2012

The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame is a historic promenade that honors some of the activists involved in the Civil Rights Movement and other national and global civil rights activists. It was created in 2004, and is located at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. The site is more than just a promenade; it is an outdoor exhibit that showcases, in granite and bronze, the footstep impressions of those honored.

According to the National Park Service, which runs the historic site, the Walk of Fame was created "to give recognition to those courageous soldiers of justice who sacrificed and struggled to make equality a reality for all." The Walk of Fame has enriched historic value and cultural heritage to the area it is located, priming it into a tourist attraction.

The Walk of Fame is a product of Xernona Clayton, an American civil rights activist and executive broadcaster. In the National Historic Site location the Walk of Fame gets around 800,000 visitors a year.

Beginning in 2012, inductions will be held every two years.

In 2019 it was announced that the Walk of Fame would be partially relocating to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta.

List of inductees

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

  • Rev. Dr. C. M. Alexander
  • Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., entrepreneur
  • Dr. Erieka Bennett
  • Roberto Goizueta, CEO of Coca-Cola
  • Cathy Hughes, entrepreneur, radio and television personality, and business executive
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball great and businessman
  • The Links, Incorporated, nonprofit organization of professional African-American women
  • Sam Massell, businessman and mayor of Atlanta
  • Ernest N. Morial, mayor of New Orleans
  • Father Michael L. Pfleger, Roman Catholic priest and social activist
  • Rev. Al Sharpton, social justice agitator and media figure
  • Congressman William L. Clay, Sr., long-serving member of US House of Representatives from Missouri
  • Rev. C. T. Vivian, minister and Martin Luther King associate

2010

  • Congressman James E. Clyburn
  • Judge Damon J. Keith
  • Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles
  • National Newspaper Publishers Association
  • Eugene C. Patterson
  • Albert Sampson
  • Rita Jackson Samuels
  • Congresswoman Diane E. Watson

2011

2012

  • Rev. Willie Bolden
  • J.T. Johnson and the Civil Rights Foot Soldiers
  • Rev. Dr. E. T. Caviness
  • Dosan Ahn Chang-ho
  • Constance W. Curry
  • Fred D. Gray
  • Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
  • Charles J. Ogletree
  • Dr. Walter F. Young

2014

2016

  • Dr. Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights activist from the Selma movement
  • Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, pastor, philanthropist, author, motivational speaker
  • Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, pastor, community activist
  • Rev. Dr. Jim Holley, Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church pastor, "ministry of liberation"
  • Gordon L. Joyner, influential Atlanta lawyer
  • Rev. Dr. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock, pastor, defender of civil and human rights

2018

  • Jan Prisby Bryson, business executive
  • Thomas W. Dortch Jr., national chair of 100 Black Men of America
  • Monica Kaufman Pearson, broadcast journalist
  • Sir Franklyn R. Wilson, Bahamian businessman

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