List of civil rights leaders

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

[edit] External links

• BlackHistoryDaily.com - Activists

[edit] Notes

1. ^ African American Registry "She was an African-American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist." Accessed 2008-05-18