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Educator who founded Paideia, a European institute for Jewish studies in Sweden.

Brooklyn congressman who helped write the Civil Rights Act and undo racial immigration quotas.

Settlement-house reformer and a founder of the NAACP.

Lawyer who led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund through the civil-rights cases after Brown.

Social worker who treated charity and labor peace as one civic craft.

Banker who financed American railroads and major Jewish institutions.

Literary scholar who put the NAACP’s work on a national stage.

Sears president who spent a fortune building schools across the South.

Nurse who brought public health onto the stoops of the Lower East Side.

Young civil-rights workers murdered during Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Historian who asked how “whiteness” was made — and whether it could be unmade.

Young lawyers who argued Loving v. Virginia and helped end bans on interracial marriage.

Lawyer and businessman who became a trusted adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

Rabbi and organizer who made American Zionism a public force.