civil rights advocate D Angela Davis, civil rights activist, academic, and author Ossie Davis, civil rights activist Ruby Dee, civil rights activist Doris Derby, civil rights activist, photographer Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, black rights activist, women's rights activist, organizer E Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights activist Charles Evers, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights activist F James L. Farmer Jr., civil rights activist Walter E. Fauntroy, civil rights activist Sarah Mae Flemming, civil rights activist James Forman, civil rights activist Aretha Franklin, civil rights activist C. L. Franklin, civil rights activist, minister Elizabeth Freeman, first former slave to win a freedom suit in Massachusetts Frankie Muse Freeman, civil rights activist, attorney G Fred Gray, civil rights lawyer Dick Gregory, civil rights activist H Vincent Harding, civil rights activist, historian Curtis W. Harris, civil rights activist, minister, politician Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist Fred Hampton, civil rights activist Lorraine Hansberry, civil rights activist, playwright, author Robert Hayling, civil rights activist, dentist Lola Hendricks, civil rights activist, secretary Aaron Henry, civil rights activist, politician Dorothy Height, educator and civil rights activist Benjamin Hooks, civil rights activist, minister, attorney Lena Horne, civil rights activist Elbert Howard, civil rights activist T. R. M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon Bobby Hutton, civil rights activist J George Jackson, civil rights activist, author Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson, civil rights activist Richie Jean Jackson, civil rights activist, author, teacher T. J. Jemison, civil rights activist, minister James Weldon Johnson, writer of Black National Anthem Clarence B. Jones, civil rights activist Barbara Jordan, civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, civil rights activist K A. D. King, civil rights activist Alveda King, civil rights activist, author, politician Bernice King, civil rights activist, minister Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist Dexter King, civil rights activist Martin Luther King III, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and pastor Martin Luther King Sr., civil rights leader, pastor and missionary Alberta Williams King, civil rights activist Yolanda King, civil rights activist Eartha Kitt, civil rights activist L Bernard Lafayette, civil rights activist, organizer Sarah Willie Layton, suffragist, civil rights activist James Lawson, civil rights activist, professor John Lewis, congressman, Nashville Student Movement, organizer Joseph Lowery, civil rights activist and minister Julius Lester, civil rights activist, author, professor Conrad Lynn, civil rights activist, lawyer M Thurgood