The name of all the people in the script dated 1-18-09

[Anthony W. Lowe]

I would like to know the names of all the people in the Sunday comic dated 1-18-09.

[Brendan Rhodes]

I'll take a stab at it. Several slaves whose names I don't know are in the background. The people I recognize on the left side are:

W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Jesse Jackson
Abigail Adams (the nation's first First Lady, who opposed slavery and called it our nation's "original sin.")
Condoleeza Rice
Harriet Tubman
(don't know who the white man is to Tubman's left)
Colin Powell
Malcolm X
(don't know who the man in the hat, in front of Malcolm X, is)
Rosa Parks.

I don't know who the three men in the middle are, but the man holding the Bible is Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Supreme Court Justice swearing Obama in is Thurgood Marshall.

On the right, starting from the back and working to the front:

I don't know who the first man is, but to his left is Huey Newton
Eisenhower
Louis Armstrong
Abraham Lincoln
(I don't know who's next to Lincoln, but he looks familiar)
Lyndon Johnson
Harry Truman
Frederick Douglass
(I don't know the two men to Douglass's left)

[DevBer]

All of you guys know more than I do, but I can claim ignorance due to old age.

[Anthony W. Lowe]

Thanks to everyone for your imput.

[Alice in Wonderland]

The "man in the hat" in front of Malcom X and just below Colin Powell is Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955. His mother held his casket open at the funeral so that the world could see the brutality of his murder. His crime? He had talked to a white woman at Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in the town of Money, Mississippi. Roy Bryant, the owner of the market, was tried and acquitted of the crime, but later admitted his guilt. Because of his rights under double jeopardy, he remained free.

[amika]

I would like to know the remaining names as well. I can add however that the young man in front of Colin Powell is Emmet Till; and in the front row to the far right in the dark suit is Ralph Bunche

[Brick]

I believe the three men at top center are Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, the civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964.

This is an awesome piece of art.

[Davrash Sani]

Actually, I think the men next to Douglass are Jack Johnson and Crispus Attucks. And the man next to Lincoln is Dred Scott. The man next to Harriet Tubman is John Brown. The only one I don't recognize is the man next to Huey Newton. Stunning cartoon. Probably the most moving cartoon I've ever seen.

[Dan Perry]

The man between Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson is Dred Scott, subject of the famous Supreme Court case in 1857. The figure to the left of Frederick Douglas I believe is Jack Johnson the boxer, in his later years (but wouldn't swear to it). The real stumpers for me are the person to the reader's right of Jack Johnson (if that's who that is), and the man between Andrew Schwerner and Huey Newton. What a brilliant concept!

[DevBer]

Every time I look at this, I recognize another face. This time it is Congoleza Rice. Sorry for the spelling.

[amika]

I think the only faces left to identify are the man next to Booker T Washington and and the man next to Huey Newton and behind Lincoln-I think the latter is A.Philip Randolph but am not sure. Thanks for the correction on Crispus Attucks

[Davrash Sani]

Between the 7 of us, we've named everyone except the man standing next to Huey Newton: Ralph Ellison. I can't claim credit, though, I read where someone else mentioned him on either comics.com or gocomics.com.

[Alan Baragona]

It looks like everyone in the picture, other than the anonymous slaves, has been identified now. The man in the bowtie between Frederick Douglass and Crispus Attucks is Jack Johnson, taken from a picture of him making an Edison recording in London: see http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=brooks.html#Phot....

And the person above Lincoln and Dred Scott is Ralph Ellison. You can see a clearer version of th is particular picture at http://www.medaloffreedom.com/RalphEllison.htm.

I have to say that Condoleezza Rice does not belong in this picture, especially not next to Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. She is a disgrace, a sell out and a tool of George Bush. Colin Powell was duped, but she is an unapologetic Bush loyalist. There are so many more worthy women, black and white, who deserve the honor. Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Gwendolyn Brooks.

And I must admit I'd like to have seen Jackie Robinson and maybe Josh Gibson in there.

But I don't mean to sound ungrateful. This is a marvelous idea and a terrific tribute to the giants on whose shoulders Barack Obama and all of us are standing.