The first post is a great list, and it's difficult to
compile a universal or complete list because the movement originated and continued with
so many people, but in addition to those listed above, you might also consider the
impact of the following people on the evolution of Civil
Rights:
1) Frederick Douglass -- instrumental in
abolition, but most people forget about his efforts securing a black suffrage amendment,
and citizenship for former slaves.
2) W.E.B. DuBois -
student of Booker T. Washington and socialist who advocated immediate equality and
resistance to Jim Crow legislation. He founded the NAACP and led the Niagara
Movement.
3) Medgar Evers - Some call him the Martin
Luther King of Mississippi, but he was more active early on in the movement before King
became a national figure, and paid for it with his life as
well.
4) Malcolm X - He often gets overlooked in terms of
the movement because he did not initially believe in civil disobedience tactics like
King and others. But he represented and spoke for a large number of African-Americans
that did not fit into the so-called mainstream of the movement, and associated more with
the separatist stance of the Nation of Islam and Elijah
Mohammed.
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