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Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of ...
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.
Pages in category "American civil rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,002 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Pages in category "Civil rights organizations in the United States" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist and retired nurse aide from Montgomery, Alabama. What did Claudette Colvin accomplish? Like Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give ...
Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, but they question how much the country has progressed since.
In 1961, 18-year-old Person joined a group of 12 other civil rights activists, Black and white, to travel by bus into the Deep South.