Civil Rights Leaders

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  1. 2. Black Muslim leader & civil rights activist who advocated for black empowerment.
  2. 3. Women's & civil rights activist & chairperson of the National Council of Negro Women.
  3. 9. Civil rights leader & NAACP field secretary assassinated for his activism.
  4. 10. Her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  5. 11. Acclaimed writer & civil rights activist known for his works on racial & social issues.
  6. 12. Longtime congressman known for his commitment to nonviolent activism.
  7. 14. Former slave & conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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  1. 1. Political activist & scholar who advocated for civil rights & women's rights.
  2. 4. First African American Supreme Court Justice.
  3. 5. Co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
  4. 6. Abolitionist & women's rights advocate famous for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
  5. 7. Baptist minister known for advocacy of nonviolent civil disobedience.
  6. 8. An anti-apartheid revolutionary & South Africa's first black president.
  7. 13. Voting rights activist & co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
  8. 15. Openly gay civil rights activist & organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.