Civil rights activists from New York (state)

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.

Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader who rose from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity to a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. He discovered the religious organization the Nation of Islam while in prison and served as its spokesperson from 1952 until 1964. He was also a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the African American community. A controversial figure accused of preaching violence, Malcolm X is also a celebrated figure with Black people and Muslims worldwide for his pursuit of racial justice.

American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)

American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)

American writer (1924–1987)

American singer (1926–2023)

American actress (born 1979)

American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)

American actress (1922–2014)

American Baptist minister, activist and talk show host

American feminist writer

American actress (1933–1995)

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist (born 1953)

Women's rights activist (1818–1894)

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.

American educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870

Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician (1889-1979)

American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator (1916–2013)

Boss of the Colombo Crime Family (1923–1978)

American activist

American former slave and abolitionist

American social reformer and social worker

American educator (1855–1902)

American Marxist historian and political activist (1915–2003)

American philanthropist

American civil rights activist (1893-1955)

American photographer (1949-2017)

American lawyer and feminist (1937–2014)

American activist (1861-1915)

American activist

American civil rights leader

American civil rights and women's liberation movement activist, founder of New York Radical Women

American activist (1902–1995)

American lawyer

American union organizer and civil rights activist (1926–2017)

former First Lady of New York State

author/activist with Japanese citizenship born in the USA

American actress, producer and activist (1923–2008)

American activist

American activist (1905-1995)

American newspaper publisher (1872–1949)

American civil rights activist (1935–2021)

American journalist

American abolitionist and women's rights advocate

American activist

black feminist and a peace and justice political activist

political activist

American drag queen, transvestite activist, and retailer (1943-2000)

American civil rights activist

African-American writer and activist

American activist (1927–1963)

American journalist and art collector (1887-1970)

US Suffragist

American writer and activist

American lawyer (1911-2007)

civil rights activist

American politician

Saint Kitts and Nevis writer

American abolitionist, pacifist, anarchist and feminist