Civil Rights Leaders

Martin Luther King Jr.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Rosa Parks

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Malcolm X

Nation of Islam (NOI)

John Lewis

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Bayard Rustin

SCLC, A. Philip Randolph Institute

A. Philip Randolph

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Ella Baker

NAACP, SNCC, SCLC

Fannie Lou Hamer

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Diane Nash

SNCC

James Farmer

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Whitney Young

National Urban League

Roy Wilkins

NAACP

Fred Shuttlesworth

SCLC

Stokely Carmichael

SNCC, Black Panther Party

Huey P. Newton

Black Panther Party

Bobby Seale

Black Panther Party

Angela Davis

Communist Party USA, Black Panther Party

Medgar Evers

NAACP

Julian Bond

SNCC, NAACP

Dorothy Height

National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)

Gloria Steinem

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Betty Friedan

NOW

Louis Farrakhan

Nation of Islam (NOI)

James Meredith

NAACP, Mississippi March Against Fear

Walter Reuther

United Auto Workers (UAW), Civil Rights Movement supporter

Harry Belafonte

Civil Rights Movement supporter, SCLC

Shirley Chisholm

National Women's Political Caucus

Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers (UFW)

Dolores Huerta

UFW