From the ballot box to the classroom, the dedicated workers, organizers, and leaders who forged this great organization and maintain its status as a champion of social justice fought long and hard to ensure that the voices of African Americans would be heard. The legacy of those pioneers, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins and the hundreds of thousands of nameless faces who worked so tirelessly, can not and must not be forgotten.