Willard "Mike" Blystone Ransom (1916–1995) was an American lawyer, businessman, community civic leader, and a civil rights activist in Indianapolis, Indiana.
[1][2] He was a leader within the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Indiana during the early years of the civil rights movement.
[1] Ransom continued his education at Talladega College (class of 1936), where he was award the summa cum laude distinction; and attended Harvard University Law School where he graduated with a J.D.
[1] Ransom trained to be a pilot at Edgewood Arsenal, and then was relocated to Tuskegee Army Airfield (now Sharpe Field) where he worked in the chemical warfare division.
[1] In 1957, Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Charles Preston, and Ransom held an event in which they screened the documentary "Walk to Freedom" and led a panel discussion on the Montgomery bus boycott.