Barber, business owner and community leader who helped protect James Stephenson and defend East Eighth Street

Business owner and community leader who helped protect the Stephensons

White Army veteran and Castner Knott employee whose confrontation with the Stephensons became the immediate catalyst for the events of 1946

Minister and community leader who helped move James Stephenson to safety and later became one of the men prosecuted after the uprising

Black businessman and community leader who helped protect the Stephensons and became one of the men prosecuted after the uprising

Mother of Gladys Stephenson and grandmother of James Stephenson

Mother whose treatment at Castner Knott helped set the events of 1946 in motion

Young veteran whose arrest prompted Columbia’s Black community to organize against the threat of another lynching