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List of civil rights leaders

Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of society to participate in the civil and political life of the state.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi
Olympe de Gouges
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Victoria Woodhull
W.E.B. Du Bois
Alice Paul
B. R. Ambedkar
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Walter P. Reuther
Dorothy Height
Nelson Mandela
Betty Friedan
Frank Kameny
Elie Wiesel
Desmond Tutu
James Bevel
George Mason

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People who motivated themselves and then led others to gain and protect these rights and liberties include:

Name Born Died Country Notes
George Mason 1725 1792   United States wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and influenced the United States Bill of Rights
Thomas Paine 1737 1809   United States English-American activist, author, theorist, wrote Rights of Man
Elizabeth Freeman 1744 1829   United States also known as Mum Bett – first former slave to win a freedom suit in Massachusetts
Olaudah Equiano 1745 1797   United Kingdom
  Nigeria
purchased his freedom, helped found the Sons of Africa, and wrote the influential The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano depicting the horrors of the slave trade
Jeremy Bentham 1748 1832   United Kingdom British philosopher, writer, and teacher on civil rights, inspiration
Olympe de Gouges 1748 1793   France women's rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French Revolution
Ottobah Cugoano 1757 1791   United Kingdom
  Ghana
captured from West Africa, he became a member of the Sons of Africa and argued against slavery on Christian and philosophical grounds
William Wilberforce 1759 1833   United Kingdom leader of the British abolition movement
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 1797   United Kingdom British author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thaddeus Stevens 1792 1868   United States representative from Pennsylvania, anti-slavery leader, originator of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Lucretia Mott 1793 1880   United States women's rights activist, abolitionist
John Neal 1793 1876   United States feminist essayist and lecturer active 1823–1876; first American women's rights lecturer[1][2]
John Brown 1800 1859   United States abolitionist, orator, martyr
Angelina Grimké 1805 1879   United States advocate for abolition, woman's rights
William Lloyd Garrison 1805 1879   United States abolitionist, writer, organizer, feminist, initiator
Lysander Spooner 1808 1887   United States abolitionist, writer, anarchist, proponent of Jury nullification
Charles Sumner 1811 1874   United States Senator from Massachusetts, anti-slavery leader
Abby Kelley 1811 1887   United States abolitionist and suffragette
Harriet Jacobs 1813 or 1815 1897   United States Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, considered an "American classic." Founded schools for fugitive and free slaves.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 1902   United States women's suffrage/women's rights leader
Lucy Stone 1818 1893   United States women's suffrage/voting rights leader
Frederick Douglass 1818 1895   United States abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration
Julia Ward Howe 1818 1910   United States writer, organizer, suffragette
Susan B. Anthony 1820 1906   United States Women's suffrage leader, speaker, inspiration
Harriet Tubman 1822 1913   United States African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1825 1895   Germany writer, organizer, and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movement
Antoinette Brown Blackwell 1825 1921   United States founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
Luís Gama 1830 1882   Brazil former slave, a journalist, poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th-century Brazil.
Victoria Woodhull 1838 1927   United States suffragette organizer, women's rights leader
Frances Willard 1839 1898   United States women's rights activist, woman suffrage leader
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 1842 1924   United States suffragist, editor, co-founder of the first chapter of the NAACP
Kate Sheppard 1848 1934   New Zealand suffragist in first country to have universal suffrage
Eugene Debs 1855 1926   United States organizer, campaigner for the poor, women, dissenters, prisoners
Booker T. Washington 1856 1915   United States educator, founder of Tuskegee University, and adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
Emmeline Pankhurst 1858 1928   United Kingdom founder and leader of the British Suffragette Movement
Charles Grafton 1869 1948   United States Reverend Charles Grafton Archdioceses of Wisconsin Fond Du Lac. Responsible for Rescue helping the Slaves. Under Ground Railroad Initiator Wisconsin Boston, New York, and the Southern States civil rights, known abolitionist. Brought the Convent of the Holy Nativity Nuns to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin activist, movement leader, writer, philosopher, and teacher Responsible for helping to establish townships all over Wisconsin, and other parts of the United States
Carrie Chapman Catt 1859 1947   United States suffrage leader, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
Jane Addams 1860 1935   United States reformer, co-founder of the Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Ida B. Wells 1862 1931   United States journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist
W.E.B. Du Bois 1868 1963   United States writer, scholar, founder of NAACP
Kasturba Gandhi 1869 1944   India wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 1948   India The Father of India, greatest unifier of Indians pre-Independence and peaceful activist, Pan-Indian Freedom movement Leader, writer, philosopher, social awakening reg Dalits and teacher/inspiration to many like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875 1950   India activist, movement leader, followed and trusted Mahatma Gandhi's Ideology and peaceful movement.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1876 1948   Pakistan lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan; lead Pakistan Movement for the rights of Muslims in the subcontinent
Lucy Burns 1879 1966   United States women's suffrage/voting rights leader
Homer G. Phillips 1880 1931   United States Republican political figure, and a prominent advocate for civil rights.[3]
José do Patrocínio 1854 1905   Brazil Journalist, one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement in Brazil.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 1962   United States women's rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United Nations
Alice Paul 1885 1977   United States Women's Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizer
Marcus Garvey 1887 1940   Jamaica political activist, publisher, journalist
Sonia Schlesin 1888 1956   Russia worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absent
Toyohiko Kagawa 1888 1960   Japan labor activist, Christian reformer, author
Bernard J. Quinn 1888 1940   United States Roman Catholic priest
Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 1964   India first Prime Minister of India, central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, advocate for freedom of the press
A. Philip Randolph 1889 1979   United States labor and civil rights movement leader
B. R. Ambedkar 1891 1956   India social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people.
Walter Francis White 1895 1955   United States NAACP executive secretary
Maria L. de Hernández 1896 1986   United States Mexican-American rights activist
Thích Quảng Đức 1897 1963   South Vietnam monk, freedom of religion self-martyr
Albert Lutuli 1898 1967   South Africa President of the African National Congress,[4] against apartheid in South Africa,[5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate[5]
Edgar Nixon 1899 1987   United States Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist
Roy Wilkins 1901 1981   United States NAACP executive secretary/executive director
Harriette Moore 1902 1951   United States Civil rights activist, and part of the only married couple to be assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement
Ella Baker 1903 1986   United States SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Marvel Cooke 1903 2000   United States civil rights leader
Myles Horton 1905 1990   United States teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist, founded and led the Highlander Folk School
John Peters Humphrey 1905 1995   Canada author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jack Patten 1905 1957   Australia Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist, journalist, founder of first Aboriginal newspaper, led the Cummeragunja Walk-Off in 1939, protested the persecution of Jewish people, President and co-founder of Aborigines Progressive Association, led the first Aboriginal delegation to meet with a sitting Prime Minister.
Nellie Stone Johnson 1905 2002   United States labor and civil rights activist
Harry T. Moore 1905 1951   United States Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
Willa Brown 1906 1992   United States civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress
Walter P. Reuther 1907 1970   United States labor leader and civil rights activist
T.R.M. Howard 1908 1976   United States founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership
Winifred C. Stanley 1909 1996   United States First member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sex
Pauli Murray 1910 1985 United States American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, gender equality advocate, Episcopal priest, and author
Elizabeth Peratrovich 1911 1958   United States Alaskan activist for native people
Amelia Boynton Robinson 1911 2015   United States Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leader
Dorothy Height 1912 2010   United States activist and advocate for African-American women
Bayard Rustin 1912 1987   United States civil rights activist
Jo Ann Robinson 1912 1992   United States Montgomery bus boycott activist
Harry Hay 1912 2002   United States early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine Society
Rosa Parks 1913 2005   United States NAACP official, activist, Montgomery bus boycott inspiration
Daisy Bates 1914 1999   United States organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events
Viola Desmond 1914 1965   Canada Black Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman
George Raymond 1914 1999   United States civil rights activist, head of the Chester, Pennsylvania branch of the NAACP
Claude Black 1916 2009   United States civil rights activist
Frankie Muse Freeman 1916 2018   United States civil rights attorney, first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer 1917 1977   United States leader in the American Civil Rights Movement; co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic Party
Marie Foster 1917 2003   United States voting rights activist, a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights Movement
Humberto "Bert" Corona 1918 2001   United States labor and civil rights leader
Gordon Hirabayashi 1918 2012   United States Japanese-American civil rights hero
Nelson Mandela 1918 2013   South Africa statesman, leading figure in Anti-Apartheid Movement
Fred Korematsu 1919 2005   United States Japanese internment resister during World War II
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1920 1975   Bangladesh Father of the nation of Bangladesh.
James Farmer 1920 1999   United States Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader and activist
Golden Frinks 1920 2004   United States civil rights organizer in North Carolina, field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Betty Friedan 1921 2006   United States writer, women's rights activist, feminist
Joseph Lowery 1921 2020   United States SCLC leader and co-founder, activist
Del Martin 1921 2008   United States co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the US
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley 1921 2003   United States held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till; speaker, activist
Whitney M. Young, Jr. 1921 1971   United States Executive director of National Urban League, adviser to U.S. presidents
Charles Evers 1922 2020   United States civil rights activist
Fred Shuttlesworth 1922 2011   United States clergyman, activist, SCLC co-founder, initiated the Birmingham Movement
Clara Luper 1923 2011   United States sit-in movement leader in Oklahoma, activist
James Baldwin 1924 1987   United States essayist, novelist, public speaker, SNCC activist
Phyllis Lyon 1924 2020   United States co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis, first social and political organization for lesbians in the U.S.
C.T. Vivian 1924 2020   United States student civil rights leader, SNCC and SCLC activist
Lenny Bruce 1925 1966   United States free speech advocate, comedian, political satirist
Medgar Evers 1925 1963   United States NAACP official in the Mississippi Movement
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga 1925 2018   United States activist in Japanese-American redress movement
Frank Kameny 1925 2011   United States gay rights activist
Malcolm X 1925 1965   United States author, speaker, activist, inspiration
Ralph Abernathy 1926 1990   United States activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official
Reies Tijerina 1926 2015   United States Hispano activist
Jackie Forster 1926 1998   United Kingdom English lesbian rights activist
Hosea Williams 1926 2000   United States civil rights activist, SCLC organizer and strategist
Cesar Chavez 1927 1993   United States Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist
Coretta Scott King 1927 2006   United States SCLC leader, activist
James Forman 1928 2005   United States SNCC official and civil rights activist
James Lawson 1928   United States American minister and activist, SCLC's teacher of nonviolence in civil rights movement
Elie Wiesel 1928 2016   United States writer, Holocaust survivor, Jewish rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 1968   United States SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker
Edison Uno 1929 1976   United States leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after World War II
Wyatt Tee Walker 1928 2018   United States activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLC
Dorothy Cotton 1930 2018   United States SCLC official, activist, organizer, and leader
Dolores Huerta 1930   United States labor and civil rights activist, initiator, organizer
Harvey Milk 1930 1978   United States politician, gay rights activist, and leader for the LGBT community
Rupert Richardson 1930 2008   United States civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1992 to 1995
Charles Morgan, Jr. 1930 2009   United States attorney, established principle of "one man, one vote"
Desmond Tutu 1931 2021   South Africa anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, first black archbishop of Cape Town
Barbara Gittings 1932 2007   United States lesbian rights activist
Dick Gregory 1932 2017   United States free speech advocate, civil rights activist, comedian
Lola Hendricks 1932 2013   United States activist, local leader in Birmingham Movement
Miriam Makeba 1932 2008   South Africa singer, anti-apartheid activist
Victor Jara 1932 1973   Chile teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist[2] political activist
Andrew Young 1932   United States civil rights activist, SCLC executive director
Stanley Branche 1933 1992   United States civil rights activitst, founder of the Committee For Freedom Now
James Meredith 1933   United States independent student leader and self–starting Mississippi activist
Violeta Zúñiga 1933 2019   Chile human rights activist
Roy Innis 1934 2017   United States activist, longtime leader of CORE
Jane Goodall 1934   United States scientist, activist, ecologist
Gloria Steinem 1934   United States writer, activist, feminist
Bob Moses 1935 2021   United States leader, activist, and organizer in '60s Mississippi Movement
James Bevel 1936 2008   United States organizer and Direct Action leader, SCLC's main strategist, movement initiator, and movement director
Barbara Jordan 1936 1996   United States legislator, educator, civil rights advocate
Charles Sherrod 1937 2022   United States civil rights activist, SNCC leader
Fela Kuti 1938 1997   Nigeria multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick
Diane Nash 1938   United States SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizer
Claudette Colvin 1939   United States Montgomery bus boycott pioneer, independent activist
Jack Herer 1939 2010   United States pro-hemp activist, speaker, organizer, author
Julian Bond 1940 2015   United States activist, politician, scholar, NAACP chairman
Prathia Hall 1940 2002   United States SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movement
Bernard Lafayette 1940   United States SCLC and SNCC activist, organizer, and leader
Muhammad Yunus 1940   Bangladesh Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.}
John Lewis 1940 2020   United States Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist, organizer, speaker, congressman
Stokely Carmichael 1941 1998   United States SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker
Jesse Jackson 1941   United States civil rights activist, politician
James Orange 1942 2008   United States SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist
Gerd Fleischer 1942   Norway human rights activist
Peter Tosh 1944 1987   Jamaica Marijuana legalization activist, promoter of the rights of Africans within Africa as well as Black people across the diaspora, reggae musician.
Marsha P. Johnson 1945 1992   United States Gay liberation activist, STAR co-founder, AIDS activist with ACT UP
Heather Booth 1945   United States SNCC activist, women's movement organizer, and founder of the Midwest Academy
Angelina Atyam 1946   Uganda human rights activist for the Aboke abductions
Dick Oosting 1946   Netherlands human rights lawyer and activist
Dana Beal 1947   United States pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiator
Ashok Row Kavi 1947   India LGBT rights activist, gay rights pioneer, founder of Humsafar Trust
Benjamin Chavis 1948   United States activist, chemist, minister, author, leader of Wilmington Ten, led Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, campaigned against environmental racism, executive director of NAACP, national director of Million Man March
Fred Hampton 1948 1969   United States NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker
Richard C Boone 1937   United States Civil Rights activist SCLC, Chaplain, Major US Army
Sylvia Rivera 1951 2002   United States Gay liberation and transgender rights activist, STAR house co-founder
Cedric Prakash 1951   India Jesuit Priest, Human Rights Activist, Organizer, Journalist, and Speaker
Judy Shepard 1952   United States gay rights activist, public speaker
Barbara May Cameron 1954 2002   United States advocate for the rights of Native Americans, lesbians, and women
Bobby Sands 1954 1981   United Kingdom hunger striker for better conditions for Irish prisoners in British prisons
Al Sharpton 1954   United States clergyman, activist, media
Will Roscoe 1955   United States gay rights activist
Rigoberta Menchú 1959   Guatemala indigenous rights leader, co-founder of Nobel Women's Initiative
Eulalie Nibizi 1960   Burundi Human rights activist, trade unionist
Steven Goldstein 1962   United States gay rights advocate, political activist
Chee Soon Juan 1962   Singapore politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activist
Manasi Pradhan 1962   India women's rights activist, founder of Honour for Women National Campaign
Céline Narmadji 1964   Chad human and women's rights activist, active in improving conditions for the local population
Deborah Parker 1970   United States Indigenous rights and women's rights activist who was critical in ensuring the passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013[6][7]
Mariela Belski 1971   Argentina Executive Director, Amnesty International Argentina
Gloria Casarez 1971 2014   United States Latina lesbian civil rights leader and LGBT activist in Philadelphia
Harish Iyer 1979   India gender and sexuality rights activist, campaigner against child sexual abuse and for animal rights
Edvin Kanka Ćudić 1988   Bosnia and Herzegovina human rights activist, founder and coordinator of UDIK in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Malala Yousafzai 1997   Pakistan advocate for education for girls, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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  1. ^ Daggett, Windsor (1920). A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine. Portland, Maine: A.J. Huston. p. 30.
  2. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 98. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
  3. ^ O'Neil, Tim (2010-06-20). "A look back: Homer G. Phillips was a leader among blacks in St. Louis". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. from the original on March 24, 2021.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1960". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
  5. ^ a b Lundestad, Geir (2001-03-15). "The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901–2000". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
  6. ^ Lane, Temryss MacLean (2018). "The frontline of refusal: indigenous women warriors of standing rock". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Routledge (published January 15, 2018). 31 (3): 209. doi:10.1080/09518398.2017.1401151. eISSN 1366-5898. ISSN 0951-8398. S2CID 149347362. Her courage in sharing her personal story of sexual violence with congress was vital in the passing of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). [...] Her dignified poise and presence was pivotal and necessary to pass the tribal provisions that protect Native women and their communities in the VAWA.
  7. ^ Nichols, John (May 24, 2016). "The Democratic Platform Committee Now Has a Progressive Majority. Thanks, Bernie Sanders". Democrats. The Nation. Katrina vanden Heuvel. ISSN 0027-8378. from the original on June 3, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2018. The Sanders selections are all noted progressives: [...] Native American activist and former Tulalip Tribes Vice Chair Deborah Parker (a key advocate for reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act) [...].

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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations and seek to ensure the ability of all members of society to participate in the civil and political life of the state Martin Luther King Jr Mahatma GandhiOlympe de GougesKarl Heinrich UlrichsVictoria WoodhullW E B Du BoisAlice PaulB R AmbedkarMuhammad Ali JinnahWalter P ReutherDorothy HeightNelson MandelaBetty FriedanFrank KamenyElie WieselDesmond TutuJames BevelGeorge Mason Contents 1 List 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksList editPeople who motivated themselves and then led others to gain and protect these rights and liberties include Name Born Died Country NotesGeorge Mason 1725 1792 nbsp United States wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and influenced the United States Bill of RightsThomas Paine 1737 1809 nbsp United States English American activist author theorist wrote Rights of ManElizabeth Freeman 1744 1829 nbsp United States also known as Mum Bett first former slave to win a freedom suit in MassachusettsOlaudah Equiano 1745 1797 nbsp United Kingdom nbsp Nigeria purchased his freedom helped found the Sons of Africa and wrote the influential The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano depicting the horrors of the slave tradeJeremy Bentham 1748 1832 nbsp United Kingdom British philosopher writer and teacher on civil rights inspirationOlympe de Gouges 1748 1793 nbsp France women s rights pioneer writer beheaded during French RevolutionOttobah Cugoano 1757 1791 nbsp United Kingdom nbsp Ghana captured from West Africa he became a member of the Sons of Africa and argued against slavery on Christian and philosophical groundsWilliam Wilberforce 1759 1833 nbsp United Kingdom leader of the British abolition movementMary Wollstonecraft 1759 1797 nbsp United Kingdom British author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of WomanThaddeus Stevens 1792 1868 nbsp United States representative from Pennsylvania anti slavery leader originator of the 14th Amendment to the U S ConstitutionLucretia Mott 1793 1880 nbsp United States women s rights activist abolitionistJohn Neal 1793 1876 nbsp United States feminist essayist and lecturer active 1823 1876 first American women s rights lecturer 1 2 John Brown 1800 1859 nbsp United States abolitionist orator martyrAngelina Grimke 1805 1879 nbsp United States advocate for abolition woman s rightsWilliam Lloyd Garrison 1805 1879 nbsp United States abolitionist writer organizer feminist initiatorLysander Spooner 1808 1887 nbsp United States abolitionist writer anarchist proponent of Jury nullificationCharles Sumner 1811 1874 nbsp United States Senator from Massachusetts anti slavery leaderAbby Kelley 1811 1887 nbsp United States abolitionist and suffragetteHarriet Jacobs 1813 or 1815 1897 nbsp United States Her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl considered an American classic Founded schools for fugitive and free slaves Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 1902 nbsp United States women s suffrage women s rights leaderLucy Stone 1818 1893 nbsp United States women s suffrage voting rights leaderFrederick Douglass 1818 1895 nbsp United States abolitionist women s rights and suffrage advocate writer organizer black rights activist inspirationJulia Ward Howe 1818 1910 nbsp United States writer organizer suffragetteSusan B Anthony 1820 1906 nbsp United States Women s suffrage leader speaker inspirationHarriet Tubman 1822 1913 nbsp United States African American abolitionist and humanitarianKarl Heinrich Ulrichs 1825 1895 nbsp Germany writer organizer and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movementAntoinette Brown Blackwell 1825 1921 nbsp United States founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869Luis Gama 1830 1882 nbsp Brazil former slave a journalist poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th century Brazil Victoria Woodhull 1838 1927 nbsp United States suffragette organizer women s rights leaderFrances Willard 1839 1898 nbsp United States women s rights activist woman suffrage leaderJosephine St Pierre Ruffin 1842 1924 nbsp United States suffragist editor co founder of the first chapter of the NAACPKate Sheppard 1848 1934 nbsp New Zealand suffragist in first country to have universal suffrageEugene Debs 1855 1926 nbsp United States organizer campaigner for the poor women dissenters prisonersBooker T Washington 1856 1915 nbsp United States educator founder of Tuskegee University and adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard TaftEmmeline Pankhurst 1858 1928 nbsp United Kingdom founder and leader of the British Suffragette MovementCharles Grafton 1869 1948 nbsp United States Reverend Charles Grafton Archdioceses of Wisconsin Fond Du Lac Responsible for Rescue helping the Slaves Under Ground Railroad Initiator Wisconsin Boston New York and the Southern States civil rights known abolitionist Brought the Convent of the Holy Nativity Nuns to Fond Du Lac Wisconsin activist movement leader writer philosopher and teacher Responsible for helping to establish townships all over Wisconsin and other parts of the United StatesCarrie Chapman Catt 1859 1947 nbsp United States suffrage leader president National American Woman Suffrage Association founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of WomenJane Addams 1860 1935 nbsp United States reformer co founder of the Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureateIda B Wells 1862 1931 nbsp United States journalist early activist in 20th century civil rights movement women s suffrage voting rights activistW E B Du Bois 1868 1963 nbsp United States writer scholar founder of NAACPKasturba Gandhi 1869 1944 nbsp India wife of Mohandas Gandhi activist in South Africa and India often led her husband s movements in India when he was imprisonedMahatma Gandhi 1869 1948 nbsp India The Father of India greatest unifier of Indians pre Independence and peaceful activist Pan Indian Freedom movement Leader writer philosopher social awakening reg Dalits and teacher inspiration to many like Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King Jr Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875 1950 nbsp India activist movement leader followed and trusted Mahatma Gandhi s Ideology and peaceful movement Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1876 1948 nbsp Pakistan lawyer politician and the founder of Pakistan lead Pakistan Movement for the rights of Muslims in the subcontinentLucy Burns 1879 1966 nbsp United States women s suffrage voting rights leaderHomer G Phillips 1880 1931 nbsp United States Republican political figure and a prominent advocate for civil rights 3 Jose do Patrocinio 1854 1905 nbsp Brazil Journalist one of the main leaders of the abolitionist movement in Brazil Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 1962 nbsp United States women s rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United NationsAlice Paul 1885 1977 nbsp United States Women s Voting Rights Movement leader strategist and organizerMarcus Garvey 1887 1940 nbsp Jamaica political activist publisher journalistSonia Schlesin 1888 1956 nbsp Russia worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absentToyohiko Kagawa 1888 1960 nbsp Japan labor activist Christian reformer authorBernard J Quinn 1888 1940 nbsp United States Roman Catholic priestJawaharlal Nehru 1889 1964 nbsp India first Prime Minister of India central figure in Indian politics before and after independence advocate for freedom of the pressA Philip Randolph 1889 1979 nbsp United States labor and civil rights movement leaderB R Ambedkar 1891 1956 nbsp India social reformer civil rights activist and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India campaigned for Indian independence fought for the women s rights fought discrimination and inequality among the people Walter Francis White 1895 1955 nbsp United States NAACP executive secretaryMaria L de Hernandez 1896 1986 nbsp United States Mexican American rights activistThich Quảng Đức 1897 1963 nbsp South Vietnam monk freedom of religion self martyrAlbert Lutuli 1898 1967 nbsp South Africa President of the African National Congress 4 against apartheid in South Africa 5 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate 5 Edgar Nixon 1899 1987 nbsp United States Montgomery bus boycott organizer civil rights activistRoy Wilkins 1901 1981 nbsp United States NAACP executive secretary executive directorHarriette Moore 1902 1951 nbsp United States Civil rights activist and part of the only married couple to be assassinated during the Civil Rights MovementElla Baker 1903 1986 nbsp United States SCLC activist initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC Marvel Cooke 1903 2000 nbsp United States civil rights leaderMyles Horton 1905 1990 nbsp United States teacher of nonviolence pioneer activist founded and led the Highlander Folk SchoolJohn Peters Humphrey 1905 1995 nbsp Canada author of Universal Declaration of Human RightsJack Patten 1905 1957 nbsp Australia Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist journalist founder of first Aboriginal newspaper led the Cummeragunja Walk Off in 1939 protested the persecution of Jewish people President and co founder of Aborigines Progressive Association led the first Aboriginal delegation to meet with a sitting Prime Minister Nellie Stone Johnson 1905 2002 nbsp United States labor and civil rights activistHarry T Moore 1905 1951 nbsp United States Civil rights activist leader and the first martyr of the Civil Rights MovementWilla Brown 1906 1992 nbsp United States civil rights activist first African American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol first African American woman to run for CongressWalter P Reuther 1907 1970 nbsp United States labor leader and civil rights activistT R M Howard 1908 1976 nbsp United States founder of Mississippi s Regional Council of Negro LeadershipWinifred C Stanley 1909 1996 nbsp United States First member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sexPauli Murray 1910 1985 United States American civil rights activist who became a lawyer gender equality advocate Episcopal priest and authorElizabeth Peratrovich 1911 1958 nbsp United States Alaskan activist for native peopleAmelia Boynton Robinson 1911 2015 nbsp United States Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leaderDorothy Height 1912 2010 nbsp United States activist and advocate for African American womenBayard Rustin 1912 1987 nbsp United States civil rights activistJo Ann Robinson 1912 1992 nbsp United States Montgomery bus boycott activistHarry Hay 1912 2002 nbsp United States early leader in American LGBT rights movement founder Mattachine SocietyRosa Parks 1913 2005 nbsp United States NAACP official activist Montgomery bus boycott inspirationDaisy Bates 1914 1999 nbsp United States organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation eventsViola Desmond 1914 1965 nbsp Canada Black Canadian civil rights activist and businesswomanGeorge Raymond 1914 1999 nbsp United States civil rights activist head of the Chester Pennsylvania branch of the NAACPClaude Black 1916 2009 nbsp United States civil rights activistFrankie Muse Freeman 1916 2018 nbsp United States civil rights attorney first woman appointee to United States Commission on Civil RightsFannie Lou Hamer 1917 1977 nbsp United States leader in the American Civil Rights Movement co founder of the National Women s Political Caucus and Freedom Democratic PartyMarie Foster 1917 2003 nbsp United States voting rights activist a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights MovementHumberto Bert Corona 1918 2001 nbsp United States labor and civil rights leaderGordon Hirabayashi 1918 2012 nbsp United States Japanese American civil rights heroNelson Mandela 1918 2013 nbsp South Africa statesman leading figure in Anti Apartheid MovementFred Korematsu 1919 2005 nbsp United States Japanese internment resister during World War IISheikh Mujibur Rahman 1920 1975 nbsp Bangladesh Father of the nation of Bangladesh James Farmer 1920 1999 nbsp United States Congress of Racial Equality CORE leader and activistGolden Frinks 1920 2004 nbsp United States civil rights organizer in North Carolina field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC Betty Friedan 1921 2006 nbsp United States writer women s rights activist feministJoseph Lowery 1921 2020 nbsp United States SCLC leader and co founder activistDel Martin 1921 2008 nbsp United States co founder of Daughters of Bilitis first social and political organization for lesbians in the USMamie Elizabeth Till Mobley 1921 2003 nbsp United States held an open casket funeral for her son Emmett Till speaker activistWhitney M Young Jr 1921 1971 nbsp United States Executive director of National Urban League adviser to U S presidentsCharles Evers 1922 2020 nbsp United States civil rights activistFred Shuttlesworth 1922 2011 nbsp United States clergyman activist SCLC co founder initiated the Birmingham MovementClara Luper 1923 2011 nbsp United States sit in movement leader in Oklahoma activistJames Baldwin 1924 1987 nbsp United States essayist novelist public speaker SNCC activistPhyllis Lyon 1924 2020 nbsp United States co founder of Daughters of Bilitis first social and political organization for lesbians in the U S C T Vivian 1924 2020 nbsp United States student civil rights leader SNCC and SCLC activistLenny Bruce 1925 1966 nbsp United States free speech advocate comedian political satiristMedgar Evers 1925 1963 nbsp United States NAACP official in the Mississippi MovementAiko Herzig Yoshinaga 1925 2018 nbsp United States activist in Japanese American redress movementFrank Kameny 1925 2011 nbsp United States gay rights activistMalcolm X 1925 1965 nbsp United States author speaker activist inspirationRalph Abernathy 1926 1990 nbsp United States activist Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC officialReies Tijerina 1926 2015 nbsp United States Hispano activistJackie Forster 1926 1998 nbsp United Kingdom English lesbian rights activistHosea Williams 1926 2000 nbsp United States civil rights activist SCLC organizer and strategistCesar Chavez 1927 1993 nbsp United States Chicano activist organizer trade unionistCoretta Scott King 1927 2006 nbsp United States SCLC leader activistJames Forman 1928 2005 nbsp United States SNCC official and civil rights activistJames Lawson 1928 nbsp United States American minister and activist SCLC s teacher of nonviolence in civil rights movementElie Wiesel 1928 2016 nbsp United States writer Holocaust survivor Jewish rights leaderMartin Luther King Jr 1929 1968 nbsp United States SCLC co founder president chairman activist author speakerEdison Uno 1929 1976 nbsp United States leader for Japanese American civil rights and redress after World War IIWyatt Tee Walker 1928 2018 nbsp United States activist and organizer with NAACP CORE and SCLCDorothy Cotton 1930 2018 nbsp United States SCLC official activist organizer and leaderDolores Huerta 1930 nbsp United States labor and civil rights activist initiator organizerHarvey Milk 1930 1978 nbsp United States politician gay rights activist and leader for the LGBT communityRupert Richardson 1930 2008 nbsp United States civil rights activist and civil rights leader who served as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP from 1992 to 1995Charles Morgan Jr 1930 2009 nbsp United States attorney established principle of one man one vote Desmond Tutu 1931 2021 nbsp South Africa anti apartheid organizer advocate first black archbishop of Cape TownBarbara Gittings 1932 2007 nbsp United States lesbian rights activistDick Gregory 1932 2017 nbsp United States free speech advocate civil rights activist comedianLola Hendricks 1932 2013 nbsp United States activist local leader in Birmingham MovementMiriam Makeba 1932 2008 nbsp South Africa singer anti apartheid activistVictor Jara 1932 1973 nbsp Chile teacher theater director poet singer songwriter and Communist 2 political activistAndrew Young 1932 nbsp United States civil rights activist SCLC executive directorStanley Branche 1933 1992 nbsp United States civil rights activitst founder of the Committee For Freedom NowJames Meredith 1933 nbsp United States independent student leader and self starting Mississippi activistVioleta Zuniga 1933 2019 nbsp Chile human rights activistRoy Innis 1934 2017 nbsp United States activist longtime leader of COREJane Goodall 1934 nbsp United States scientist activist ecologistGloria Steinem 1934 nbsp United States writer activist feministBob Moses 1935 2021 nbsp United States leader activist and organizer in 60s Mississippi MovementJames Bevel 1936 2008 nbsp United States organizer and Direct Action leader SCLC s main strategist movement initiator and movement directorBarbara Jordan 1936 1996 nbsp United States legislator educator civil rights advocateCharles Sherrod 1937 2022 nbsp United States civil rights activist SNCC leaderFela Kuti 1938 1997 nbsp Nigeria multi instrumentalist musician composer pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre human rights activist and political maverickDiane Nash 1938 nbsp United States SNCC and SCLC activist and official strategist organizerClaudette Colvin 1939 nbsp United States Montgomery bus boycott pioneer independent activistJack Herer 1939 2010 nbsp United States pro hemp activist speaker organizer authorJulian Bond 1940 2015 nbsp United States activist politician scholar NAACP chairmanPrathia Hall 1940 2002 nbsp United States SNCC activist a leading speaker in the civil rights movementBernard Lafayette 1940 nbsp United States SCLC and SNCC activist organizer and leaderMuhammad Yunus 1940 nbsp Bangladesh Bangladeshi social entrepreneur banker economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance John Lewis 1940 2020 nbsp United States Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist organizer speaker congressmanStokely Carmichael 1941 1998 nbsp United States SNCC and Black Panther activist organizer speakerJesse Jackson 1941 nbsp United States civil rights activist politicianJames Orange 1942 2008 nbsp United States SCLC activist and organizer a voting rights movement leader trade unionistGerd Fleischer 1942 nbsp Norway human rights activistPeter Tosh 1944 1987 nbsp Jamaica Marijuana legalization activist promoter of the rights of Africans within Africa as well as Black people across the diaspora reggae musician Marsha P Johnson 1945 1992 nbsp United States Gay liberation activist STAR co founder AIDS activist with ACT UPHeather Booth 1945 nbsp United States SNCC activist women s movement organizer and founder of the Midwest AcademyAngelina Atyam 1946 nbsp Uganda human rights activist for the Aboke abductionsDick Oosting 1946 nbsp Netherlands human rights lawyer and activistDana Beal 1947 nbsp United States pro hemp activist organizer speaker initiatorAshok Row Kavi 1947 nbsp India LGBT rights activist gay rights pioneer founder of Humsafar TrustBenjamin Chavis 1948 nbsp United States activist chemist minister author leader of Wilmington Ten led Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ campaigned against environmental racism executive director of NAACP national director of Million Man MarchFred Hampton 1948 1969 nbsp United States NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist organizer speakerRichard C Boone 1937 nbsp United States Civil Rights activist SCLC Chaplain Major US ArmySylvia Rivera 1951 2002 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