civil rights activists
Justice movement participants
Civil rights activists are people who work to secure equal rights and protections for groups facing discrimination.
The term is most associated with the American movement of the 1950s and 1960s that fought racial segregation and voting restrictions: Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists changed the course of American history.
The phrase applies broadly to anyone advocating for legal equality based on race, gender, sexuality, or other characteristics.
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- bus boycottOrganized refusal to ride
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- abolitionistsThose opposing human bondage
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
Medgar Evers · Angela Davis · Sojourner Truth · Martin Luther King Jr. · I Have a Dream · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Malcolm X · feminists · Cesar Chavez · sit-ins · John Lewis · Bloody Sunday · Freedom Riders · suffragists · desegregation · Marches · nonviolent protest
- activistsMartin Luther King Jr., protester, campaigner, demonstrator, Rosa Parks
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
civil rights activistssegregationists
Advocates for racial division
white supremacists · oppressors · George Wallace · racists · lynch mobs