American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi.

Evers also established new local NAACP chapters, organized voter registration drives, and helped lead protests to desegregate public primary schools, parks, and Mississippi Gold Coast beaches.

American Baptist minister and a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s. He led non-violent protests to fight for the rights of Black people and all people. He famously had a dream that America and the world could become a society where race would not impact a person's way of living.

African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.

Rustin, a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.