Black Civil Rights Leaders
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Notable Civil Rights Leaders
 The Little Rock Nine pictured with Daisy Bates, the president of the Arkansas NAACP. Browse more African-American biographies by category:
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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
- Claudette Colvin, 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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