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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.
"a consistent posture toward raising the social, cultural and economic status of African Americans" "personal achievement that reveals the best qualities of the African American people" Reference and User Services Quarterly reviewed the list positively in 2003, while noting the subjectivity in judging greatness, particularly for contemporary ...
Maya Angelou speaks during the AARP Magazine's 2011 Inspire Awards. Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Fabrice Guerrier is a Haitian-American ... Named to The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in the ... Entrepreneurs, and the Leaders of Tomorrow
The museum worked on the list of the 200 influential African-American locals over the last two years in preparation of Tallahassee's bicentennial. 'Monumental': Fla. Civil Rights Museum spotlights ...
As protests rock the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, there is a notable absence in the national public discourse: African American community ...
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: 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 ...
The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [1 ...