American Civil Rights Leaders
American Civil Rights Leaders is a structured people dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Leader, Born, Died. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Not provided
- Data updated
- Apr 10, 2026
Included fields: Leader, Born, Died, Role, Key Moment, and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Born range
- 1,862 to 1,948
- Across 15 preview rows
- Role groups
- 12 distinct values
- Across 15 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Leader, Born, and Died across people entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Leader↕ | Born↕ | Died↕ | Role↕ | Key Moment↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1,929 | 1968 | Minister, activist | March on Washington, 1963 | I Have a Dream speech, nonviolent resistance, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 |
Malcolm X | 1,925 | 1965 | Minister, activist | Autobiography publication, 1965 | Black nationalism, self-defense advocacy, Nation of Islam then pan-Africanism |
Rosa Parks | 1,913 | 2005 | Activist | Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 | Refused to give up bus seat, sparked 381-day boycott, mother of the movement |
John Lewis | 1,940 | 2020 | Activist, congressman | Bloody Sunday march in Selma, 1965 | SNCC chairman, 17-term US congressman, good trouble philosophy |
Thurgood Marshall | 1,908 | 1993 | Lawyer, Supreme Court justice | Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 | First Black Supreme Court justice, won landmark desegregation case |
Medgar Evers | 1,925 | 1963 | NAACP field secretary | Assassination in Mississippi, 1963 | Investigated Emmett Till murder, voter registration drives in Mississippi |
Fannie Lou Hamer | 1,917 | 1977 | Activist, organizer | Democratic National Convention testimony, 1964 | Sick and tired of being sick and tired, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
W.E.B. Du Bois | 1,868 | 1963 | Scholar, activist | Co-founded NAACP, 1909 | The Souls of Black Folk, Talented Tenth concept, pan-Africanism |
Ella Baker | 1,903 | 1986 | Organizer | Founded SNCC with students, 1960 | Grassroots organizing philosophy, mentored a generation of activists |
A. Philip Randolph | 1,889 | 1979 | Labor leader | March on Washington organizer, 1963 | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, pressured FDR on desegregation |
Bayard Rustin | 1,912 | 1987 | Organizer, strategist | Organized March on Washington logistics, 1963 | Nonviolence strategist, mentored MLK, openly gay civil rights leader |
Diane Nash | 1,938 | living | Activist, organizer | Nashville sit-ins, 1960 | Led Freedom Riders after violence, key strategist of the movement |
Stokely Carmichael | 1,941 | 1998 | Activist | Black Power speech, 1966 | Coined Black Power, SNCC chairman, later pan-Africanist Kwame Ture |
Fred Hampton | 1,948 | 1969 | Black Panther chairman | Rainbow Coalition formation, 1969 | Charismatic organizer, assassinated by Chicago police and FBI at age 21 |
Ida B. Wells | 1,862 | 1931 | Journalist, activist | Anti-lynching campaign, 1892 | Investigative journalism exposing lynching, co-founded NAACP |
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Frequently asked questions
How is American Civil Rights Leaders organized?
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This dataset contains 15 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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