The Little Rock Nine pictured with Daisy Bates, the president of the Arkansas NAACP.

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• Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
• Ella Baker, civil rights activist
• Amira Baraka, American poet, playwright, and political activist
• Daisy Bates, civil rights leader
• Black Panthers, U.S. black militant party
• Julian Bond, U.S. civil rights leader
• Stokely Carmichael, radical civil rights leader
• Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman
• Kenneth B. Clark, civil rights leader
• Eldridge Cleaver, American social activist
• Angela Davis, political activist, author
• Medgar Evers, civil rights leader
• Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader
• James Farmer, civil rights leader
• Marcus Garvey, black nationalist leader
• Greensboro Four, civil rights activists
• Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer, civil rights activist
• Height, Dorothy, activist
• Benjamin Hooks, American black leader
• Charles Hamilton Houston, civil rights lawyer
• Roy Innis, civil rights leader
• Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist
• James Weldon Johnson, civil rights leader
• Coretta Scott King, American civil rights leader
• Martin Luther King, Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader
• Yolanda King, civil rights leader
• John R. Lewis, civil rights leader
• Little Rock Nine, first black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School
• Loving, Mildred, activist
• Malcolm X, militant black leader
• Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader
• James Meredith, civil-rights leader, author
• Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Representative and NAACP CEO
• Benjamin Franklin Muhammad, civil-rights and religious leader
• Elijah Muhammad, black nationalist leader
• Huey Newton, black activist
• Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
• John L. Phillips, American judge
• A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
• Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist
• Bobby Seale, black activist
• Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights activist
• Nina Simone, civil rights activist
• C. K. (Charles Kenzie) Steele, civil rights activist
• Moorfield Storey, civil rights leader
• Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
• Walter White, American leader
• Roy Wilkins, American social reformer and civil rights leader
• Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official
• Whitney M. Young, Jr., social reformer

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