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Partial List of Human Rights Advocates and Defenders
- Abernathy, Ralph (1926-1990) clergyman, activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official
- Abzug, Bella (1920-1998)
- Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906) women’s suffrage/voting rights leader
- Baker, Ella (1903-1986)
- Bates, Daisy (1914-1999)
- Beal, Dana (1947-) pro-hemp leader, activist, organizer, author
- Bevel, James (1936-2008) SCLC’s main strategist, organizer, and Direct Action leader
- Bridges, Ruby (1954)
- Bond, Julian (1940-) activist, politician, scholar, lawyer, NAACP chairman
- Brown, John (1800-1859) led slave revolt
- Burns, Lucy (1879-1966) women’s suffrage/voting rights leader
- Carmichael, Stokely (1941-1998)
- Chavez, Cesar (1927-1993) Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist
- Chisholm, Shirley (1924-2005)
- Colvin, Claudette (1939-) pioneer student and independent activist
- Cooke, Marvel (1903-2000), journalist, writer, trade unionist, civil rights activist[1]
- Cotton, Dorothy (1930-) SCLC activist and leader
- Cuney, Norris Wright (1846–1898), Texas politician and leader of the Texas Republican Party
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (1868-1963), writer, scholar, founder of NAACP
- Evers, Charles (1922-)
- Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) NAACP official
- Farmer, James (1920-1999) CORE leader and activist
- Forman, James (1928-2005) SNCC official and activist
- Foster, Marie (1917-2003) activist, local leader in Selma Movement
- Friedan, Betty (1921-2006) writer, activist, feminist
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Hall, Prathia (1940-2002) SNCC activist, civil rights movement speaker
- Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977) activist in Mississippi movements
- Hayes, Randy, Founder of Rainforest Action Network
- Hendricks, Lola (1932-) activist, local leader in Birmingham Campaign
- Herer, Jack (1939-) pro-hemp activist, organizer, author
- Hernandez, Aileen (1926)
- Hill, Robert (1892-?)
- Hobson, Julius Wilson (1919-1977) organizer, agitator, researcher, plaintiff
- Horne, Lena (1917-2010)
- Horton, Myles (1905-1990) teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist
- Howard, T.R.M. (1908-1976) Civil Rights leader
- Huerta, Dolores C (1930)
- Jackson, Jesse (1941-) clergyman, activist, politician
- Jordan, June (1936-2002), writer, poet, civil rights activist, feminist
- Keys, Sarah Louise
- King, Coretta Scott (1927-2006)
- King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968) clergyman, SCLC co-founder and president, activist
- Lawson, James (1928-) teacher of nonviolence, activist
- Lafayette, Bernard (1940-) SCLC and SNCC activist and organizer
- Lewis, John (1940-) Civil Rights activist and U.S. Congressman
- Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States, promulgated Emancipation Proclamation
- Lowery, Joseph (1921-) SCLC leader, activist
- Luper, Clara (1923-) Sit-in movement leader, activist
- Mandela, Nelson
- Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)
- Meredith, James (1933-) independent student leader and self-starting activist
- Milk, Harvey (1930-1978) politician, gay rights activist
- Morgan, Irene (1917-2007)
- Moses, Robert “Bob” (1935-) leader, activist, and organizer
- Nash, Diane (1938-) SNCC and SCLC activist and organizer
- Nixon, Edgar (1899-1987)
- Orange, James (1942-2008) SCLC activist and organizer, trade unionist
- Parks, Rosa (1913-2005) NAACP official, activist
- Paul, Alice (1885-1977) women’s suffrage/voting rights leader
- Randolph, A. Philip (1889-1979) socialist, labor leader
- Robinson, Amelia Boynton (1911-) voting rights activist
- Rustin, Bayard (1912-1987), civil rights activist
- Seeger, Pete (1919-) musician
- Sharpton, Al (1954-) clergyman, activist
- Sherrod, Charles civil rights activist, SNCC leader
- Shuttlesworth, Fred (1922-) clergyman, activist
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902) women’s suffrage/voting rights leader
- Steinem, Gloria (1934-) writer, activist, feminist
- Stone, Lucy (1818-1893) women’s suffrage/voting rights leader
- Vivian, C.T. (1924-) student leader, SNCC activist
- Tubman, Harriet (1820 or 1821- 1913)
- Walker, Wyatt Tee, clergyman, activist: NAACP and CORE in Virginia, Executive Dictator, SCLC (1960-1964)
- Wells, Ida B. (1862-1931) journalist, women’s suffrage/voting rights activist
- White, Walter Francis (1895-1955) NAACP executive secretary
- Wilkins, Roy (1901-1981), NAACP executive secretary/executive director
- Willard, Frances 1839-1898) women’s rights, suffrage/voting rights leader
- Williams, Robert F.(1925-1996), organizer
- X, Malcolm (1925-1965), author, activist
- Young, Andrew (Andy) Jr. (1932-) clergyman, SCLC activist and executive director.
- Young, Whitney M., Jr. (1921-1971), Executive Director of National Urban League; advisor to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
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