1 - 31 of 31 famous, important and notable civil rights activists ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Marcus Garvey
3. Malcolm X
4. Josephine Baker
5. Rosa Parks
6. Jimmie Lee Jackson
7. Huey P. Newton
8. Harry Belafonte
9. Nina Simone
10. Ida B. Wells
11. Jim Brown
12. James Weldon Johnson
13. John Lewis
14. Cesar Chavez
15. John Carlos
16. W.E.B. Du Bois
17. Victoria Woodhull
18. Betty Shabazz
19. Medgar Evers
20. James Meredith
21. Tommie Smith
22. Colin Kaepernick
23. Ralph Abernathy
24. Al Sharpton
25. Fannie Lou Hamer
26. James Bevel
27. Bobby Seale
28. Timothy Thomas Fortune
29. Dorothy Height
30. Fred Shuttlesworth
31. Bayard Rustin