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- List_of_civil_rights_leaders abstract "Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments and private organizations, and seek to ensure the ability of all members of society to participate in the civil and political life of the state.Civil rights include individual rights to equal protection and service, privacy, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to travel, freedom of worship, protection of civil liberties, the right to vote, and the right to freely share ideas and opinions through all forms of communication and media. People who motivated themselves and then led others to gain and protect these rights and liberties include:Ralph Abernathy (1926–1990) - American activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) officialB.R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) - Indian activist for caste abolition, writer, philosopher, economist, co-wrote and influenced Indian constitution which focused on social rights.Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) - American Women's suffrage leader, speaker, inspirationElla Baker (1903–1986) - American SCLC activist, initiated the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)James Baldwin (1924–1987) - American essayist, novelist, public speaker, SNCC activistDaisy Bates (1914–1999) - American organizer of the Little Rock Nine school desegregation events.Dana Beal (1947– ) - American pro-hemp activist, organizer, speaker, initiatorJeremy Bentham (1748–1832) - British philosopher, writer, and teacher on civil rights, inspirationJames Bevel (1936–2008) - American organizer and Direct Action leader, SCLC's main strategist, movement initiator, and movement director.Claude Black (1916–2009) - American civil rights movement activistAntoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) - founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869Julian Bond (1940–2015) - American activist, politician, scholar, NAACP chairmanLenny Bruce (1925–1966) - American free speech advocate, comedian, political satiristLucy Burns (1879–1966) - American women's suffrage/voting rights leaderStokely Carmichael (1941–1998) - American SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speakerCarrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) - suffrage leader, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder League of Women Voters and International Alliance of WomenCesar Chavez (1927–1993) - Chicano activist, organizer, trade unionist,inspirationBenjamin Chavis - (1948-) American activist, chemist, minister, author, leader of Wilmington 10, Director Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ, campaigner against Environmental Racism, Executive Director of NAACP, National Director of the Million Man March Claudette Colvin (1939–) - American Montgomery Bus Boycott pioneer, independent activistMarvel Cooke (1903–2000) - American journalist, writer, trade unionistHumberto "Bert" Corona (1918–2001) - labor and civil rights leaderDorothy Cotton (1930–) - American SCLC official, activist, organizer, and leaderEugene Debs (1855–1926) - American organizer, campaigner for the poor, women, dissenters, prisonersAndre DiMino (1950–) - Italian-American civil rights activistFrederick Douglass (1818–1895) - American abolitionist, women's rights and suffrage advocate, writer, organizer, black rights activist, inspirationW. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) - American writer, scholar, founder of NAACPCharles Evers (1922–) - American civil rights movement activistMedgar Evers (1925–1963) - American, NAACP official in the Mississippi MovementJames Farmer (1920–1999) - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leader and activistLouis Farrakhan (1933–) - American, Controversial Minister and National Representative of the Nation of IslamJames Forman (1928–2005) - American SNCC official and civil rights movement activistMarie Foster (1917–2003) - American voting rights activist, a local leader in the Selma Voting Rights MovementFrankie Muse Freeman (1916-) American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil RightsGolden Frinks (1920–2004) American civil rights organizer in North Carolina and field secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Betty Friedan (1921–2006) - American writer, women's rights activist, feministKasturba Gandhi (1869–1944) wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned. Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) - Indian activist, movement leader, writer, philosopher, and teacher.William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) - writer, organizer, feminist, initiatorOlympe de Gouges (1748–1793) - French women's rights pioneer, writer, beheaded during French RevolutionDick Gregory (1932- ) - American free speech advocate and activist in the civil rights movement, comedianTenzin Gyatso (1935- ) - Tibetan, 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, advocate for nonviolence, compassion, and Tibetan autonomyPrathia Hall (1940–2002) - American SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movementFred Hampton (1948–1969) - American NAACP youth leader and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) - activist in Mississippi movementsHarry Hay (1912–2002) - early leader in American LGBT rights movement, founder Mattachine SocietyLola Hendricks (1932–) - activist, local leader in Birmingham MovementJack Herer (1939–2010) - American pro-hemp activist, speaker, organizer, authorGordon Hirabayashi (1918–2012) - Japanese-American civil rights heroMyles Horton (1905–1990) - American teacher of nonviolence, pioneer activist, founded and led the Highlander Folk SchoolT.R.M. Howard (1908–1976) - founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro LeadershipJulia Ward Howe (1818–1910) - American writer, organizer, suffragetteDolores Huerta (1930– ) - American labor and civil rights activist, initiator, organizerJohn Peters Humphrey (1905–1995) - author of Universal Declaration of Human RightsHarish Iyer (1979–) - Indian gender and sexuality rights activist, campaigns against child sexual abuse and for animal rights, inspiration. Jesse Jackson (1941–) - American civil rights activist, politicianNellie Stone Johnson (1905–2002) - labor and civil rights activistToyohiko Kagawa (1888–1960) - Japanese labour activist, Christian reformer, authorMeir Kahane (1932-1990) - controversial Jewish rights leader, founder of the Jewish Defense LeagueAshok Row Kavi (1947–) - Indian LGBT rights activist, pioneer Indian gay rights movement, founder of Humsafar TrustAbby Kelley (1811–1887) - American abolitionist and suffragette Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) - American SCLC leader, activist, inspiration Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) - SCLC co-founder/president/chairman, activist, author, speaker, inspirationFred Korematsu (1919–2005) - American, Japanese internment resister during WWIIJames Lawson (1928–) - American minister and activist, SCLC's teacher of nonviolence in late 1950s and early 1960s civil rights movementBernard Lafayette (1940–) - American SCLC and SNCC activist, organizer, and leaderJohn Lewis (1940–) - American Nashville Student Movement and SNCC activist, organizer, speaker, congressman, inspirationSigmund Livingston (1872–1946) - Jewish rights activist, founder of the Anti-Defamation LeagueJoseph Lowery (1921–) - American SCLC leader and co-founder, activistClara Luper (1923–2011) - American sit-in movement leader in Oklahoma, activistPhyllis Lyon (1924-) - American co-founder of first social and political organization for lesbians in the USJames Madison (1751–1836) - American founding father, introduced and lobbied for the U.S. Bill of RightsNelson Mandela (1918–2013) - South African statesman, leading figure in anti-apartheid movement, inspirationDel Martin (1921–2008) - American co-founder of first social and political organization for lesbians in the USGeorge Mason (1725–1792) - American who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and influenced U.S. Bill of RightsRigoberta Menchú (1959) - Guatemalan indigenous rights leader, co-founder Nobel Women's Initiative James Meredith (1933–) - American independent student leader and self–starting Mississippi activistMamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (1921-2003) - American who held an open casket funeral for her son, Emmett Till; speaker, activistCharles Morgan, Jr. (1930–2009) - American attorney, established principle of "one man, one vote"Harvey Milk (1930–1978) - American politician, gay rights activist and leader, inspirationBob Moses (1935–) - leader, activist, and organizer in '60s Mississippi MovementDiane Nash (1938–) - American SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizerEdgar Nixon (1899–1987) - Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer, civil rights activistJames Orange (1942–2008) - American SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionistEmmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) - founder and leader of the British Suffragette MovementRosa Parks (1913–2005) - American NAACP official, activist, Montgomery Bus Boycott inspirationVallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) Indian activist, movement leaderAlice Paul (1885–1977) - American 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement leader, strategist, and organizerThomas Paine (1737–1809) - English-American activist, author, theorist, wrote Rights of ManElizabeth Peratrovich (1911–1958) - Alaska activist for native peopleA. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) - American labor and civil rights movement leaderAmelia Boynton Robinson (1911–) - Selma Voting Rights Movement activist and early leaderJo Ann Robinson (1912–1992) - Montgomery Bus Boycott activist.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) - women's rights and human rights activist both in the United States and in the United NationsBayard Rustin (1912–1987) - American civil rights activistAung San Suu Kyi (1945-) - Burmese Politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activistSonia Schlesin (1888–1956) - worked with Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa and led his movements there when he was absent.Al Sharpton (1954–) - American clergyman, activist, mediaCharles Sherrod (1937-)- American civil rights activist, SNCC leaderJudy Shepard (1952–) - gay rights activist, public speakerKate Sheppard (1847–1934) - New Zealand suffragist in first country to have universal suffrageFred Shuttlesworth (1922–2011) - American clergyman, activist, SCLC co-founder, initiated the Birmingham MovementLysander Spooner (1808–1887) - American abolitionist, writer, anarchist, proponent of Jury nullificationWinifred C. Stanley (1909-1996) - First member of Congress to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination in pay on the basis of sexElizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) - American women's suffrage/women's rights leaderGloria Steinem (1934–) - American writer, activist, feministLucy Stone (1818–1893) - American women's suffrage/voting rights leaderThich Quang Duc (1897–1963) - Vietnamese monk, freedom of religion self-martyrDesmond Tutu (1931–) - South African anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, inspirationKarl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) - German writer, organizer, and the pioneer of the modern LGBT rights movementEdison Uno (1929–1976) - American, leader for Japanese-American civil rights and redress after WW IIC.T. Vivian (1924–) - American student civil rights leader, SNCC and SCLC activistWyatt Tee Walker (1929-) - American activist and organizer with NAACP, CORE, and SCLCBooker T. Washington (1856–1915) - American educator, founder of Tuskegee University, and advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) - American journalist, early activist in 20th Century Civil Rights Movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activistWalter Francis White (1895–1955) - American NAACP executive secretaryElie Wiesel - (1928–) - American, writer, Holocaust survivor, Jewish rights leaderWilliam Wilberforce (1759–1833) - leader of the British abolition movementRoy Wilkins - (1901–1981) American NAACP executive secretary/executive directorFrances Willard (1839–1898) - American women's rights activist, woman suffrage leaderHosea Williams (1926–2000) - American civil rights activist, an SCLC organizer and strategistVictoria Woodhull (1838–1927) - American suffragette organizer, women's rights leaderMalcolm X (1925–1965) - American author, speaker, activist, inspirationAndrew Young (1932–) - American SCLC activist and executive directorWhitney M. Young, Jr. (1921–1971) - Exec. Director National Urban League, advisor to U.S. PresidentsMalala Yousafzai (1997- ) - Pakistani, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, advocate for education for girls".
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