American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi.

Evers also established new local NAACP chapters, organized voter registration drives, and helped lead protests to desegregate public primary schools, parks, and Mississippi Gold Coast beaches.

American Baptist minister and a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s. He led non-violent protests to fight for the rights of Black people and all people. He famously had a dream that America and the world could become a society where race would not impact a person's way of living.

African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.

Rustin, a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.

American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.

Marshall was the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American justice

Social Justice Leader, Movement Strategist, Author.

Mallory was one of the leading organizers of the 2017 Women's March, for which she and her three other co-chairs were recognized in the TIME 100 that year.

American abolitionist and women's rights activist.

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.

American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law.

Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

American lawyer, educator, and politician who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement.

Hamer was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

American civil rights activist.

Bridges was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.