Asserted civil rights by refusing to give up her bus seat due to the racially assigned seating.
Asserted civil rights by refusing to give up her bus seat due to the racially assigned seating.
Son of civil rights leader, SCLC president, and public speaker.
Civil rights leader who gave the legendary I Have a Dream speech.
India's nonviolent leader of liberation from British rule, whose non-violent philosophy is known as passive resistance.
Marxist revolutionary who helped to overthrow the Cuban government.
Civil rights leader, and follower of Martin Luther King, Jr..
Became the first African American child to attend an all-white school on November 14, 1960
Gay activist and public official who was assassinated by a fellow San Francisco supervisor.
Civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr..
Demonstrated for the rights of California farm workers.
Civil rights activist who began as James Brown's tour manager.
The first black congresswoman from the deep South.
A Civil Rights activist and writer known for her part in the Little Rock Integration Crisis.
An American reproduction educator and social activist during the Reproductive Rights Movement, who helped women attain birth control.
African-American political leader who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Led the campaign for Women's Suffrage leading to the Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Wounded Knee leader, and American Indian Movement director.
Women's Liberation activist and abolitionist who founded a commune in Tennessee
An American labor union activist who is also the co-founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee.
Grandson of a slave who became a civil rights leader.
