List of civil rights leaders
Below is a list of some (chiefly American) civil rights leaders:
- Abernathy, Ralph (1926–1990) clergyman, activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official
- Anthony, Susan B. (1820–1906) women's suffrage/voting rights leader
- Baker, Ella (1903–1986)
- Bates, Daisy (1914–1999)
- Bevel, James (1936–2008) SCLC's main strategist, organizer, and Direct Action leader
- Black,Claude (1916–2009)
- Bond, Julian (1940–) activist, politician, scholar, lawyer, NAACP chairman
- Brown, John (1800–1859) led slave revolt
- Burns, Lucy (1879–1966) women's suffrage/voting rights leader
- Carmichael, Stokely (1941–1998)
- Chavez, Cesar (1927–1993) Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist
- Colvin, Claudette (1939–) pioneer student and independent activist
- Cooke, Marvel (1903–2000), journalist, writer, trade unionist, civil rights activist[1]
- Corona, Humberto Noe "Bert" (1918–2001) labor and civil rights leader
- Cotton, Dorothy (1930–) SCLC activist and leader
- Cuney, Norris Wright (1846–1898), Texas politician and leader of the Texas Republican Party
- Debs, Eugene (1855-1926), American Labor Union organizer and Socialist, campaigned for the rights of the poor, women, dissenters, and prisoners
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (1868–1963), writer, scholar, founder of NAACP
- Evers, Charles (1922–)
- Evers, Medgar (1925–1963) NAACP official
- Farmer, James (1920–1999) CORE leader and activist
- Forman, James (1928–2005) SNCC official and activist
- Foster, Marie (1917–2003) activist, local leader in Selma Movement
- Friedan, Betty (1921–2006) writer, activist, feminist
- Hall, Prathia (1940–2002) SNCC activist, civil rights movement speaker
- Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917–1977) activist in Mississippi movements
- Hendricks, Lola (1932–) activist, local leader in Birmingham Campaign
- Herer, Jack (1939–) pro-hemp activist, organizer, author
- Hill, Robert (1892–?)
- Hobson, Julius Wilson (1919–1977) organizer, agitator, researcher, plaintiff
- Horton, Myles (1905–1990) teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist
- Howard, T.R.M. (1908–1976) founder of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership in Mississippi.
- Huerta, Dolores (1930– ) labor and civil rights activist
- Jackson, Jesse (1941–) clergyman, activist, politician
- Jordan, June (1936–2002), writer, poet, civil rights activist, feminist
- King, Coretta Scott (1927–2006)
- King Jr., Martin Luther (1929–1968) clergyman, SCLC co-founder and president, activist
- Lawson, James (1928–) teacher of nonviolence, activist
- Lafayette, Bernard (1940–) SCLC and SNCC activist and organizer
- Lewis, John (1940–)
- Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865), 16th President of the United States, promulgated Emancipation Proclamation
- Lowery, Joseph (1921–) SCLC leader, activist
- Luper, Clara (1923–) Sit-in movement leader, activist
- McIntosh, William S. (1921–1974) Dayton, Ohio leader, activist, and organizer
- Meredith, James (1933–) independent student leader and self–starting activist
- Milk, Harvey (1930–1978) politician, gay rights activist
- Moses, Robert "Bob" (1935–) leader, activist, and organizer
- Nash, Diane (1938–) SNCC and SCLC activist and organizer
- Nixon, Edgar (1899–1987)
- Orange, James (1942–2008) SCLC activist and organizer, trade unionist
- Parks, Rosa (1913–2005) NAACP official, activist
- Paul, Alice (1885–1977) women's suffrage/voting rights leader
- Peratrovich, Eizabeth (1911-1958) Alaska civil rights activist, working on behalf of equality for Alaska Native peoples.
- Randolph, A. Philip (1889–1979) socialist, labor leader
- Robinson, Amelia Boynton (1911–) voting rights activist
- Rustin, Bayard (1912–1987), civil rights activist
- Sharpton, Al (1954–) clergyman, activist
- Sherrod, Charles civil rights activist, SNCC leader
- Shepard, Judy (1952–) gay rights activists, public speaker
- Shuttlesworth, Fred (1922–2011) clergyman, activist
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902) women's suffrage/voting rights leader
- Steinem, Gloria (1934–) writer, activist, feminist
- Stone, Lucy (1818–1893) women's suffrage/voting rights leader
- Vivian, C.T. (1924–) student leader, SNCC activist
- Williams, Hosea (1926–2000) civil rights activist, chief field organizer for SCLC, led Selma to Montgomery campaign
- Walker, Wyatt Tee, clergyman, activist: NAACP and CORE in Virginia, Executive Dictator, SCLC (1960–1964)
- Wells, Ida B. (1862–1931) journalist, women's suffrage/voting rights activist
- White, Walter Francis (1895–1955) NAACP executive secretary
- Wilkins, Roy (1901–1981), NAACP executive secretary/executive director
- Willard, Frances 1839–1898) women's rights, suffrage/voting rights leader
- Williams, Robert F.(1925–1996), organizer
- X, Malcolm (1925–1965), author, activist
- Young, Andrew (Andy) Jr. (1932–) clergyman, SCLC activist and executive director.
- Young, Whitney M., Jr. (1921–1971), Executive Director of National Urban League; advisor to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
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- ^ African American Registry "She was an African-American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist." Retrieved 2008–05-18.