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Martin Luther King Jr. 1929–1968Civil Rights & Social ReformBaptist minister and civil rights leader whose nonviolent activism ended legal segregation in America.
Malcolm X 1925–1965Civil Rights & Social ReformCivil-rights leader whose critique of racism and advocacy of Black dignity reshaped American political thought.
Sitting Bull 1831–1890Indigenous Leaders & Native NationsHunkpapa Lakota leader and spiritual figure who resisted U.S. expansion and defended tribal sovereignty.
Jesse Jackson 1941–2026Civil Rights & Social ReformCivil rights leader whose 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns expanded Black political participation.
Nat Turner 1800–1831Civil Rights & Social ReformLed the 1831 Virginia slave rebellion that prompted harsher slave codes across the South.
Lucretia Mott 1793–1880Civil Rights & Social ReformAbolitionist and women’s-rights organizer who helped convene the Seneca Falls Convention.
Ralph Abernathy 1926–1990Civil Rights & Social ReformCo-founder of the SCLC who led it after King was killed
Fred Shuttlesworth 1922–2011Civil Rights & Social ReformFounder of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Pauli Murray 1910–1985Civil Rights & Social ReformLawyer and activist whose legal arguments laid groundwork for Brown v. Board and LGBTQ rights.
Quanah Parker 1845–1911Indigenous Leaders & Native NationsLast Comanche war leader who became a reservation-era negotiator and figure in the Native American Church.