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This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
This category exists to help sort out the main African-American people category, as part of the African-American people by occupation category scheme. United States portal This category lists African-American people who were/are activists for various issues (including but not limited to civil rights) .
THIS IS A SCREENSHOT FOR FEATURED IMAGE, SOCIAL and APP. USE ORIGINAL IMAGE FOR STORIES Portrait of American orator, editor, author, abolitionist, and former enslaved person Frederick Douglass ...
Pages in category "Activists for African-American civil rights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,149 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson (September 9, 1901 – August 27, 1999) was a prominent American social activist and college professor. Patterson's early experiences of isolation and persecution on the West Coast had a profound impact on her later activism.
Black women campaigned to get more voters of colors to show up at the polls and help Kamala Harris make history. They mourn the loss of her bid. Black women activists grieve Harris' loss, but vow ...