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Joanne Grant
Joanne Grant (March 30, 1930 – January 9, 2005) was an African-American journalist and Communist activist.
 She was a reporter for the "National Guardian", where she covered the American Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1960s.
 She was the author of three books about the era and the director of a documentary about Ella Baker.
 Her 1968 book, "Black Protest", is "required reading" for African-American studies classes.
Ella Baker
Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist born in Virginia, who grew up in North Carolina and graduated from college there, and worked for most of her life based in New York City.
 She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades.
 She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders of the 20th century, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King, Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses.
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898 – December 15, 1987) was an American educator and civil rights activist.
 Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
 Septima Clark's work was commonly under appreciated by Southern male activists.
 She became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
 Martin Luther King, Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement".
 Clark's argument for her position in the Civil Rights Movement was one that claimed "knowledge could empower marginalized groups in ways that formal legal equality couldn't." Jonathan Daniels
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist.
 In 1965 he was assassinated by a shotgun-wielding construction worker, Tom Coleman, who was a special county deputy, in Hayneville, Alabama while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales.
 He saved the life of the young black civil rights activist.
 They both were working in the Civil Rights Movement in Lowndes County to integrate public places and register black voters after passage of the Voting Rights Act that summer.
 Daniels' death generated further support for the Civil Rights Movement. Alice Allison Dunnigan
Alice Allison Dunnigan (1906–1983) was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist and author.
 Dunnigan was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials, and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.
 She has written an autobiography entitled "Alice A. Dunnigan: A Black Woman's Experience".
 She also has a Kentucky State Historical Commission marker dedicated to her. William Worthy
William Worthy, Jr. (July 7, 1921 – May 4, 2014) was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist, and dissident who pressed his right to travel regardless of U.S. State Department regulations. Conrad Lynn
Conrad Joseph Lynn (November 4, 1908 – November 16, 1995) was an African-American civil rights lawyer and activist known for providing legal representation for activists, including many unpopular defendants.
 Among the causes he supported as a lawyer were civil rights, Puerto Rican nationalism, and opposition to the draft during both World War II and the Vietnam War.
 The controversial defendants he represented included civil rights activist Robert F. Williams and Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown. William Monroe Trotter House
The William Monroe Trotter House is a historic house at 97 Sawyer Avenue, atop Jones Hill in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
 It was the home of African-American journalist and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934).
 He and his wife Geraldine Louise Pindell moved into the two-story wood frame home when they were married in June 1899.
 The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its association with Trotter, whose activism was influential in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Louise Evers–Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist of the Civil Rights Movement and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers in 1963.
 She was also chairwoman of the NAACP, and published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband’s legacy.
 On January 21, 2013, she delivered the invocation at the second inauguration of Barack Obama. George T. Downing
George T. Downing (December 30, 1819 – July 21, 1903) was an abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights.
 His father was a caterer and Oyster seller in Philadelphia and New York City and George followed the same career path in New York, Newport, Rhode Island, and Washington, DC.
 From the 1830s until the end of slavery, Downing was active in the abolitionist movement and in the Underground Railroad, with his restaurant serving as a rest house.
 During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Downing helped recruit African American soldiers.
 After the war he moved to Washington, DC where he ran the Refectory for the House of Representatives.
 He was a prominent member in the Colored Conventions Movement and worked to join the efforts of women's rights and black rights.
 He became close to Charles Sumner and was with the legislator when he died.
 Late in his life he returned to Rhode Island where he continued to be a community leader and civil rights activist.