Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

male, deceased (1968)
I Have a Dream, assassinated, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, nonviolence, Christian, peacemaker…American, African American, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Assassinated American, African Americans' rights activist
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is...
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

female, 96 years old (Montgomery, Alabama)
African Americans' rights activist, vegetarian, montgomery bus boycott, civil disobedience, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient…civil rights movement, Civil Rights, African American, US American, American
Rosa Parks ( February 4 1913 a October 24 2005 ) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the...
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

male, deceased (1963)
President of the United States, Roman Catholic, American, JFK, assassinated president, berlin wall…American military personnel of World War II, American World War II veteran, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, Assassinated American politician
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the...
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

male, deceased (1973)
lbj, LandSlide, United States presidential line of succession, landslide victory, American military personnel of World War II, death by myocardial infarction…American, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, civil rights laws
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in th...
Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

male, 68 years old
folk music, singer-songwriter, guitarist, blowing in the wind, poet, Robert Allen Zimmerman…American male singer, civil rights movements, American rock singer-songwriter, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, American harmonica player
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in...
Emmett Till

Emmett Till

male, deceased (1955)
African American, Murdered American children, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, Leflore County, cotton gin, Tallahatchie River…Murdered American child
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who died in what has been...
John Lewis

John Lewis

male, 69 years old
COINTELPRO target, from Alabama, American anti Iraq War activist, segregation, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, racial segregation…African American in the United States Congress, Movement to impeach George W. Bush, African Americans' rights activist, American
John Robert Lewis is an American politician and was an important leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student...
Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

male, deceased (1987)
African American, quaker, earlier, nonviolent resistance, African Americans' rights activist, nonviolence…LGBT rights activist, civil rights movement, American, LGBT African American, Human Rights
Bayard Rustin was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and...
Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

female, 81 years old (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)
AmericanCivilRightsMovement, actress, memoirist, poet, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, University of Ghana's School Music&drama…American Revolution Bicentennial Commiss, 1996 How to Make an American Quilt, Reynolds Professor of American Studies, American women writer, American
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian,...
Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

female, deceased (1977)
African American, African Americans' rights activist, from Mississippi, activist, Delta Sigma Theta sister, biblical…American, Civil Rights, AmericanCivilRightsMovement, voting rights
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer"...