Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Civil Rights Leader
1
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
2
Ruby Bridges, 71
3
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
4
Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)
5
Claudette Colvin (1939-2026)
6
Cesar Chavez (1927-1993)
7
Martin Luther King III, 68
8
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
9
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
10
Ella Baker (1903-1986)
11
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
12
Al Sharpton, 71
13
Yolanda King (1955-2007)
14
Dolores Huerta, 95
15
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
16
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
17
Afeni Shakur (1947-2016)
18
Fred Hampton (1948-1969)
19
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
20
Born in United States
Most Popular Civil Rights Leaders
Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
21
Elizabeth Eckford, 84
22
Harvey Milk (1930-1978)
23
Mark Clark (1947-1969)
24
Huey P Newton (1942-1989)
25
Jo Ann Boyce (1941-2025)
26
Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)
27
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
28
Bernard Lafayette, 85
29
Dorothy Height (1912-2010)
30
Daisy Bates (1914-1999)
31
Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
32
Amelia Boynton Robinson (1905-2015)
33
Bobby Seale, 89
34
James Lawson (1928-2024)
35
James Howard Meredith, 92
36
Bobby Hutton (1950-1968)
37
Alice Paul (1885-1977)
38
Maggie L. Walker (1864-1934)
39
Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)
40
Michael Skolnik, 47
41
Florence Kelley (1859-1932)
42
Lucille Bridges (1934-2020)
43
Betty Shabazz (1934-1997)
44
Moorfield Storey (1845-1929)
45
Homer Plessy (1862-1925)
46
Isabel González (1882-1971)
47
Elizabeth Peratrovich (1911-1958)
48
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