civil rights leader

1. A leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups (synset 109944454)
   is a type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform
   subtypes: freedom rider - one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
   specific instances:

   • bond, julian bond - United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)
   • du bois, w. e. b. du bois, william edward burghardt du bois - United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
   • evers, medgar evers, medgar wiley evers - United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)
   • farmer, james leonard farmer - United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
   • jackson, jesse jackson, jesse louis jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
   • king, martin luther king, martin luther king jr. - United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
   • malcolm little, malcolm x - militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
   • james howard meredith, james meredith, meredith - United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
   • parks, rosa parks - United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
   • paul bustill robeson, paul robeson, robeson - United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)
   • roy wilkins, wilkins - United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)
   • whitney moore young jr., whitney young, young - United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
   same as: civil rights activist, civil rights worker

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