Civil Rights Activist
1. Elizabeth Peratrovich (1911)
Civil Rights Activist
Activist for Alaskan natives who pushed for the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first U.S. law outlawing the practice.
2. Esther Cooper Jackson (1917)
Civil Rights Activist
Remembered best as a founder of the African- American journal Freedomways, this civil rights activist and author penned such articles as "This is My Husband: Fighter for His People, Political...
3. Fred Shuttlesworth (1922)
Civil Rights Activist
Co-founder, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who helped highlight the discrimination against blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.
4. Matthew Stark (1930)
Civil Rights Activist
Notable for his leadership of the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Stark also had a distinguished career as an academic, teaching at the University of Minnesota and...
5. Myrlie Evers-Williams (1933)
Civil Rights Activist
African-American civil rights activist who served as Chairwoman of the NAACP and sought justice for three decades for the murder of her first husband, who was also a civil rights...
6. Jefferson Thomas (1942)
Civil Rights Activist
Famous as a member of The Little Rock Nine, he was a joint recipient of the 1999 Congressional Gold Medal, which was awarded four decades after he and eight other...
7. Ruby Hurley (1909)
Civil Rights Activist
Ruby Hurley was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement and administrator for the NAACP. She was known as the queen of civil rights.
8. T. R. M. Howard (1908)
Civil Rights Activist
Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard MD was an American civil rights leader fraternal organization leader entrepreneur and surgeon.
9. Brenda Cherry (1958)
Civil Rights Activist
Brenda Cherry is an American Civil Rights Activist from Paris Texas. Cherry is the President and co-founder of Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality a non-profit civil rights organization located in...
10. Allan Horsfall (1927)
Civil Rights Activist
Allan Horsfall was a British gay rights campaigner and founder of the North West Committee for Homosexual Law Reform which became the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Horsfall was born in...
11. Shayan Modarres (1984)
Civil Rights Activist
Shayan Modarres is a civil rights activist and attorney in Orlando Florida. He is originally from the Washington D. C. /Maryland metropolitan area. He has assisted in the representation of...
12. Irom Chanu Sharmila (1972)
Civil Rights Activist
Irom Sharmila Chanu also known as the Iron Lady of Manipur or Mengoubi is a civil rights activist political activist and poet from the Indian state of Manipur. On 2...
13. Manjaagiin Ichinnorov (1972)
Civil Rights Activist
Ichinnorov Manjaa is a Mongolian civil rights activist born in the Khovd Province of Western Mongolia. She was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Award “For Fighting against Social Injustices with Peaceful...
14. Joanne Bland (1952)
Civil Rights Activist
Joanne Bland is a famous Civil Rights Activist, who was born on July 29, 1952 in United States. According to Astrologers, Joanne Bland's zodiac sign is Leo.
Joanne Bland (born July...
15. James Hart Stern (1964)
Civil Rights Activist
James Hart Stern is a famous Civil Rights Activist, who was born on June 13, 1964 in United States. According to Astrologers, James Hart Stern's zodiac sign is Gemini.
Stern grew...
