Social Activism
Social Activism
Ralph David Abernathy (civil rights leader)
Victoria Jackson Gray Adams (civil rights activist)
Richard Allen (abolitionist and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church)
Osborne Perry Anderson (abolitionist)
Crispus Attucks (leader of the colonist group in the Boston Massacre)
Ella Jospehine Baker (civil rights activist)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (civil rights activist and newspaper publisher)
William Wells Brown (abolitionist; author; lecturer; historian)
Stokely Carmichael (civil rights activist)
James Chaney (civil rights activist; social worker)
Claudette Colvin (pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement)
John Anthony Copeland, Jr. (abolitionist)
Ellen and William Craft (fugitive slaves; abolitionists)
Martin Robinson Delaney (abolitionist; journalist; physician; soldier)
Frederick Douglass (social reformer; abolitionist; orator; writer; statesman)
Medgar Wiley Evers (civil rights activist)
James Leonard Farmer (civil rights activist)
James Forman (civil rights activist)
Elizabeth Freeman (also known as Bet, Mum Bett, or MumBet) (c. 1742-1829) (civil rights activist)
Henry Highland Garnet (abolitionist; minister; diplomat)
Georgia Gilmore (civil rights activist associated with the Montgomery Bus Boycott)
Shields Green (abolitionist)
Dick Gregory (born Richard Claxton Gregory) (civil rights activist; comedian)
Lawrence Guyot (civil rights activist)
Prince Hall (abolitionist)
Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer (voting and women’s rights activist; community organizer; civil rights leader)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (abolitionist; writer; public speaker; social reformer)
Lewis Hayden (abolitionist; lecturer; politician; businessman)
Benjamin Lawson Hooks (civil rights leader; minister; attorney)
Absalom Jones (abolitionist; clergyman)
Grace Nail Johnson (civil rights activist; patron of the arts- Harlem Renaissance)
John Lewis (civil rights leader; U.S. Congressman; writer)
Jermain Wesley Loguen (abolitionist; religious leader)
Joseph Lowery (civil rights activist; minister)
Autherine Juanita Lucy (civil rights activist)
James Meredith (civil rights activist; writer; political advisor)
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore and Harry T. Moore (civil rights workers and educators)
Robert Parris Moses (civil rights activist; educator)
Diane Judith Nash (civil rights activist)
Huey P. Newton (political activist)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (civil rights activist; politician)
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (civil rights activist)
Asa Philip Randolph (civil rights activist; labor leader; publisher)
John Brown Russwurm (abolitionist; newspaper publisher; Bowdoin College graduate)
Bayard Rustin (civil rights leader)
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (activist; bibliophile; curator; writer; historian)
Dred Sam Scott (activist)
Assata Shakur (activist)
Frederick Lee “Fred” Shuttlesworth (civil rights activist; minister)
William Still (abolitionist; Underground Railroad conductor; businessman; writer; historian)
Brenda Travis (civil rights activist)
Sojourner Truth (abolitionist; women’s rights activist)
Harriet Ross Tubman (abolitionist; political activist; Underground Railroad conductor)
Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael) (civil rights activist)
Wyatt Tee Walker (civil rights activist; theologian; pastor; cultural historian)
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (civil rights activist; investigative journalist; educator)
Roy Ottoway Wilkins (civil rights activist)
Hosea Williams- civil rights activist; leader; minister; businessman; philanthropist; scientist; politician)
Andrew Young(civil rights activist; politician; diplomat; minister)