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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.
Many Black women participating in informal leadership positions, acting as natural "bridge leaders" and, thus, working in the background in communities and rallying support for the movement at a local level, partly explains why standard narratives neglect to acknowledge the imperative roles of women in the civil rights movement.
women's suffrage/women's rights leader Lucy Stone: 1818 1893 United States: women's suffrage/voting rights leader Frederick Douglass: 1818 1895 United States: abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspiration Julia Ward Howe: 1818 1910 United States: writer, organizer, suffragette Susan B ...
This list contains the names of notable African American civil rights activists and thinkers who pushed for emancipation, equality, and racial justice during the 19th century.
Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture history; Black Belt in the American South; Business history; Military history; Treatment of the enslaved; Migrations; Great Migration; Second Great Migration; New Great Migration
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Pages in category "American women's rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 753 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.