Civil Rights Activists

7. Cofounder of the NAACP
8. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter
9. His preaching of the ideals of Black Nationalism and Independence fueled the Black Power movement.
10. Cofounded the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee with John Lewis. Also cofounder of the Souther Poverty Law Center.
11. Founded the League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation
14. Cofounder of the NAACP, and the National Association of Colored Women
15. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter
17. First Black woman to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
19. Executive Director of the National Urban League for 10yrs. Coauthored President Johnson’s War on Poverty legislation.
21. Youngest speaker and organizer of the March on Washington. Served in Congress for 34 years.
22. Cofounded the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Organization for Women
23. Was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1. Author of How to Be Antiracist
2. Organizer of 1957’s Prayer Pilgrimage to Freedom, and 1963’s March on Washington
3. organized Ferguson Uprising
4. Author of The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
5. Founder of the Racial Justice Network
6. Cofounder of the NAACP
12. President of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years
13. Founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
16. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter
18. Cofounder of Color of Change
20. Founder of the MeToo Movement