Johnnie Carr: Carr joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1967. It was the newly formed association that led the boycott of city buses in the Alabama capital. She was 97.
Dr. Michael DeBakey: DeBakey was chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and a pioneering heart surgeon who is considered the father of modern cardiovascular surgery. DeBakey died in July at age 99.
Dr. Murry DePillars: Born in Chicago in 1938, DePillars was an artist and educator who served as dean of the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1976 until his retirement in 1995. Under his leadership, the School of the Arts grew to become one of the largest and well-respected art schools in the United States.
Dith Pran: A New York Times photojournalist and survivor of the Khmer Rouge labor camps in Cambodia, Dith became world-famous with the release of the Academy Award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” which was based on his life, the Cambodian civil war and Dith’s friendship with Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg. He was 65.
Dr. Robert Cook Edwards: The former Clemson University president is credited for his leadership and calls for peace and order during a contentious integration battle in 1963 in which Harvey B. Gantt, a Black student, successfully enrolled in the then all-White Clemson College. He was 94.
Dr. Robert Goheen: The former president of Princeton University, an assistant classics professor chosen to lead the university at the age of 37, hired Princeton’s first Black full professor and Black administrator. The former U.S. ambassador to India died at 88.
Don Haskins: The longtime University of Texas at El Paso coach, who is credited with helping break color barriers in U.S. college sports in 1966 when he used five Black starters to win a national basketball title for Texas Western University, died at 78.
