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John Brown
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American revolutionary abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre, during which five men were killed, in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas, and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Later that year he was executed but his speeches at the trial captured national attention. -
Susan Anthony
She was an american civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. -
Eugene V. Debs
He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of -
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
Daisy Bates
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He became active in the civil rights movement after returning from overseas service in World War II and completing secondary education; he became a field secretary for the NAACP. -
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta
Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is a noted American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta is the recipient of countless awards from community service, labor, and women's organizations as well as the subject of corridos (ballads) and murals, Huerta is a much-admired role model. -
James Bevel
He was an american minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who, as the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education. -
Cesar Chavez
He was an american farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.
