List of civil rights leaders

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Below is a list of some (chiefly American) civil rights leaders:

Abernathy, Ralph (1926-1990) clergyman, activist, SCLC official
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906) suffragette
Baker, Ella (1903-1986)
Bates, Daisy (1914-1999)
Bevel, James (1936-)
Bond, Julian (1940-) activist, politician, scholar, lawyer, NAACP chairman
Carmichael, Stokely (1941-1998)
Cooke, Marvel (1903-2000), journalist, writer, trade unionist, civil rights activist^[1]
DuBois, W.E.B. (1868-1963), writer, scholar, communist, founder of NAACP
Evers, Charles (1922-)
Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) NAACP official
Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977) activist
Hill, Robert (1892-?)
Hobson, Julius Wilson (1919-1977) organizer, agitator, researcher, plaintiff, elected official
Howard, T.R.M. (1908-1976)
Jackson, Jesse (1941-) clergyman, activist, politician
Jordan, June (1936-2002), writer, poet, civil rights activist, feminist
King, Coretta Scott (1927-2006)
King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929-1968) clergyman, activist
Lawson, James (1928-)
Lewis, John (1940-)
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), 16^th President of the United States, promulgated Emancipation Proclamation
Nixon, Edgar (1899-1987)
Parks, Rosa (1913-2005) seamstress, NAACP official, activist, congressional aide
Randolph, A. Philip (1889-1979) socialist, labor leader
Robinson, Amelia Boynton (1911-)
Rustin, Bayard (1912-1987), civil rights activist, communist, homosexual
Sharpton, Al (1954-) clergyman, activist
Shuttlesworth, Fred (1922-) clergyman, activist
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902) suffragette
White, Walter Francis (1895-1955) NAACP executive secretary
Wilkins, Roy (1901-1981), NAACP executive secretary/executive director
Williams, Robert F.(1925-1996), organizer
X, Malcolm (1925-1965)
Young, Andrew Jackson (Andy) Jr. (1932-) clergyman, activist, mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, congressman from State of Georgia