African-American civil rights activists

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

American football player and actor (1936–2023)

American football player (born 1987)

African-American civil rights and human rights activist (1903–1986)

African-American civil rights activist (1925-1963)

American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)

American civil rights activist

American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

American musician (1914–1993)

American political activist & writer (1933-)

American social activist (1940–2015)

Civil rights activist (1917–2022)

American activist

American civil rights activist

American civil rights activist (1933–2019)

African Americans' rights activist (1920-1999)

1960s Civil Rights Movement strategist (1936–2008)

American activist

American YouTube personality and transgender rights activist

American zoologist (1889–1964)

LGBT rights activist (1899–2000)

American civil rights activist

American activist (1839–1871)

Civil rights activist (1939–2012)

American civil rights activist (1926–2006)

American physician, epidemiologist, medical anthropologist

American civil rights activist (1908–1966)

American civil rights leader and politician

African-American poet, orator, and political activist

transgender activist and minister in the United Church of Christ

American civil rights leader (1925-2010)

American civil rights activist

American civil rights activist

American attorney, entrepreneur, and activist

American civil rights activist (1917–2003)

American physician (1908–1976)

American journalist