Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael

male, deceased (1998)
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist...
John Lewis

John Lewis

male, 69 years old
John Robert Lewis is an American politician and was an important leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student...
Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

female, deceased (1977)
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's "Freedom Summer"...
Julian Bond

Julian Bond

male, 69 years old (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
Julian Bond, president of the NAACP: "He was a polarizing figure in black America. He was hostile to the generally accepted remedies for...
H. Rap Brown

H. Rap Brown

male, 66 years old
H. Rap Brown (born October 4, 1943) came to prominence in the 1960s as a civil rights worker, black activist, chairman of the Student Nonviolent...
James Forman

James Forman

male, deceased (2005)
James Forman (October 4, 1928 - January 10, 2005) was an African-American Civil Rights leader active in both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
Angela Davis

Angela Davis

female, 65 years old
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black...
Diane Nash

Diane Nash

female, 71 years old
Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938 in Chicago was one of the founders of the SNCC, a key force in the American civil rights movement.
Jim Clark

Jim Clark

male, deceased (2007)
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922, Elba, Coffee County, Alabama - June 4, 2007) of Selma, Alabama, was the sheriff of Dallas County,...
Big Six

Big Six

male
The Big Six leaders during the height of the American Civil Rights movement are generally considered to be: * James Farmer-(January 12, 1920 – Ju...