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This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
This category exists to help sort out the main African-American people category, as part of the African-American people by occupation category scheme. United States portal This category lists African-American people who were/are activists for various issues (including but not limited to civil rights) .
Pages in category "Activists for African-American civil rights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,149 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *
W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who became the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. What did W.E.B. Du Bois accomplish?
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
Stacker used various sources to uncover the stories behind 14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you might not recognize.
Charles Barron former member Harlem chapter, community activist and Democratic New York City Councilmember [8] Lucille Berrien, political activist from Milwaukee. [9] Dhoruba bin Wahad, New York activist and one of the Panther 21. Veronza Bowers, Jr., served 50 years in prison for murdering a park ranger. [10] Released on May 7, 2024. [11]
civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M. Howard: 1908 1976 United States: founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership: Winifred C. Stanley: 1909 ...