Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leaderElla Baker, civil rights activistAmira Baraka, American poet, playwright, and political activistDaisy Bates, civil rights leaderBlack Panthers, U.S. Black militant partyJulian Bond, U.S. civil rights leaderStokely Carmichael, radical civil rights leaderShirley Chisholm, U.S. CongresswomanKenneth B. Clark, civil rights leaderEldridge Cleaver, American social activistClaudette Colvin, activistAngela Davis, political activist, authorMedgar Evers, civil rights leaderMyrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leaderJames Farmer, civil rights leaderMarcus Garvey, Black nationalist leaderGreensboro Four, civil rights activistsFannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer, civil rights activistHeight, Dorothy, activistBenjamin Hooks, American Black leaderCharles Hamilton Houston, civil rights lawyerRoy Innis, civil rights leaderJesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activistJames Weldon Johnson, civil rights leaderCoretta Scott King, American civil rights leaderMartin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leaderYolanda King, civil rights leaderJohn R. Lewis, civil rights leaderLittle Rock Nine, first Black teenagers to attend all-white Central High SchoolLoving, Mildred, activistMalcolm X, militant Black leaderThurgood Marshall, lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme CourtFloyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leaderJames Meredith, civil-rights leader, authorKweisi Mfume, U.S. Representative and NAACP CEOBenjamin Franklin Muhammad, civil-rights and religious leaderElijah Muhammad, Black nationalist leaderHuey Newton, Black activistRosa Parks, American civil rights activistJohn L. Phillips, American judgeA. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leaderBayard Rustin, civil rights activistBobby Seale, Black activistFred Shuttlesworth, civil rights activistNina Simone, civil rights activistC. K. (Charles Kenzie) Steele, civil rights activistMoorfield Storey, civil rights leaderMary Church Terrell, civil rights activistWalter White, American leaderRoy Wilkins, American social reformer and civil rights leaderAndrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public officialWhitney M. Young, Jr., social reformer
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