Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt (September 13, 1947 – June 2, 2011), also known as Geronimo Ji-Jaga and Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt, was a decor...

Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement . On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to giv...

Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights...

Harry Tyson Moore (November 18, 1905 – December 25, 1951) was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the Civil Rights Movement ,...

Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana . He was the youngest of seven children of Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Bapti...

Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist , civil rights 1964 leader, and the wife of Martin...

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregatio...

“I think he should be on a roster right now,” he says. “I think because of his protests, he’s not.” Rodgers tells me that while he doesn’t p...