Lloyd A. Barbee, 1925­-2002, was a distinguished legislator, civil rights activist, and attorney. While serving as the only African American in the Wisconsin state assembly from 1965 to 1977, Barbee sponsored the Fair Housing Act, as well as bills related to employment rights, legalization of abortion, reparations to African Americans and Native Americans, and a requirement that multicultural history be taught in public schools. As an attorney, he won a landmark case that integrated Milwaukee Public Schools. After leaving the legislature, Barbee continued to practice law and taught in the Africology department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Daphne E. Barbee-Wooten is an attorney specializing in civil rights practicing in Honolulu, Hawaii. Previously she worked as a public defender and trial attorney and was the first senior trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Hawaii. In 2014, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Hawaii NAACP, and in 2016, she received the civil rights attorney of the year award from Sisters Empowering Hawaii.