Database:

Infobase - African-American History Online

Most of the Civil Rights Leaders listed below will have entries in Infobase. If your leader is not represented, check the links posted below. User name - sbrunswick Password - ask your librarian

Website:

BlackPast.org

An award-winning free website, BlackPast.org provides entries on many lesser known Civil Rights Activists. Powered by Google, type your leader's name into the search box to maximize results.

Civil Rights Leaders:

• Thurgood Marshall (Lawyer/Supreme Court Judge)

• A. Phillip Randolph (Labor Activist)

• James Forman (SNCC/Voting Rights)

• Jackie Robinson (Baseball)

• Booker T. Washington (Business leader)

• W.E.B. Dubois (NAACP)

• Marcus Garvey (Black Nationalism)

• T.R.M. Howard (RCNL)

  • T.R.M Howard (BlackPast.org)

  • Howard Home (Till Memory Project)

• Medgar Evers (NAACP)

• John Roy Lynch (Reconstruction Era Activist/U.S. Congressman)

• Fannie Lou Hamer (Civil Rights)

• Charles Hamilton Houston

• Hiram Revels (Senator)

• William Monroe Trotter (Civil Rights)

• Ida B. Wells (Journalist)

• Water Francis White (NAACP)

• Roy Wilkins (NAACP)

• James Rapier (Reconstruction Era Activist/ U.S. Congressman)

• Hiram Rhodes Revels (U.S. Senator)

• Ella J. Baker (Civil Rights)

• James Baldwin (Author)

• Mary McLeod Bethune (Civil Rights)

• Shirley Chisholm (Civil Rights)

• Septima Poinsette Clark (Educator/Civil Rights)

• Frederick Douglass (Abolitionist)

• Virginia Foster Durr (Civil Rights)

  • Virginia Foster Durr (Encyclopedia of Alabama)

  • Virginia Foster Durr (Alabama Women's Hall of Fame)