Famous Black Civil Rights Leaders

• Anderson, Marian

  The Black contralto who sang at the Lincoln Memorial

• Baldwin, James

  Author of Go Tell It On The Mountain

• Du Bois, W.E.B.

  Author of The Souls of Black Folk

• Evers, Medgar

  Assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader

• Hansberry, Lorraine

  The author of A Raisin in the Sun

• Jackson, Jesse

  Aide to Martin Luther King and candidate for U.S. president

• King, Coretta Scott

  The wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  The civil rights hero who said "I have a dream"

• Lewis, John

  The civil rights leader who served in Congress for 33 years

• Marshall, Thurgood

  The first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Murray, Pauli

  The Civil Rights Era hero who became an Episcopalian priest

• Parks, Rosa

  The civil rights icon who wouldn't give up her bus seat

• Rustin, Bayard

  Organizer behind Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington

• Till, Emmett

  The Black teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955

• X, Malcolm

  Assassinated leader of the 1960s black power movement

See: Famous African-Americans (for Black History Month)