civil rights leaders
Justice movement pioneers
Civil rights leaders are people who organize and advocate for equal treatment under the law, particularly for groups facing discrimination.
The term most often refers to figures in the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s who fought against racial segregation: Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders led the March on Washington.
The phrase applies more broadly to activists championing legal equality for any marginalized group.
- abolitionistsThose opposing human bondage
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- activistsPeople working for causes
- March on WashingtonHistoric civil rights demonstration
Harriet Tubman · Malcolm X · Rigoberta Menchú · Cesar Chavez · Medgar Evers · Martin Luther King Jr. · nonviolent resistance · Desmond Tutu · Nelson Mandela · Frederick Douglass · John Lewis · Thurgood Marshall · marches · suffragists · racial equality · social justice · voting · struggle
- HumanitariansMother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr.
- American IconsAbraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr.
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, writers, scientists, musicians
- women achieverswomen's history, pioneering women, trailblazers, innovators, role models
- Black AmericaBlack churches, NAACP, Jim Crow, racial justice, HBCUs
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, Sakharov
civil rights leaderssegregationists
Advocates for racial division
white supremacists · George Wallace · slave owners · Dixiecrats · racists