USA History: Civil Rights 1860-1980

Campaigners: 1860-1900
John Quincy Adams	Harriet Jacobs
Richard Allen	Thomas Johnson
Susan Anthony	John Jones
Charles Ball	Elizabeth Keckley
Henry Ward Beecher	Charles Langston
Henry Bibb	John M. Langston
James Birney	Abraham Lincoln
Amelia Bloomer	Mary Livermore
Olympia Brown	Elijah Lovejoy
Henry Box Brown	Benjamin Lundy
John Brown	Isaiah T. Montgomery
William Wells Brown	Lucretia Mott
Martha Browne	Solomon Northup
Henry Clay Bruce	Robert Dale Owen
Martin Van Buren	James Pennington
Annie Burton	Wendell Phillips
Mary Ann Cary	Robert Purvis
Maria Chapman	Charles Remond
Salmon P. Chase	Moses Roper
Lydia Maria Child	Josephine Ruffin
Joseph Cinque	David Ruggles
Peter H. Clark	Austin Steward
Levi Coffin	William Seward
Samuel Eli Cornish	Gerrit Smith
Prudence Crandall	Edwin Stanton
Alexander Crummell	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Offobah Cugoano	Thaddeus Stevens
Henry Winter Davis	William Still
William H. Day	Lucy Stone
Martin R. Delany	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass	Jacob Stroyer
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Charles Sumner
Olaudah Equiano	Arthur Tappan
James Forten	Lewis Tappan
Francis Fredric	Henry David Thoreau
Henry H. Garnet	Sojourner Truth
Thomas Garrett	Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison	Henry M. Turner
Joshua Giddings	Nat Turner
Lewis Clarke	Bethany Veney
Moses Grandy	Fanny Garrison Villard
Horace Greeley	Benjamin Wade
Angelina Grimke	Theodore Weld
Sarah Grimke	Ida Wells-Barnett
Frances Harper	Phillis Wheatley
Walter Hawkins	Walt Whitman
Oliver Howard	John Greenleaf Whittier
Samuel Gridley Howe	Fanny Wright
Josiah Henson	Zamba Zembola

 

Unequal Democracy

Souled Out

 

Campaigners: 1900-1980
Ralph Abernathy	Robert La Follette Jr.
Bella Abzug	Mark Lane
Jane Addams	Oliver Law
Herbert Aptheker	James Lawson
Bill Bailey	Herbert Lee
Ella J. Baker	John Lewis
Ray Stannard Baker	Joseph Levin
James Baldwin	Viola Liuzzo
Roger Baldwin	Henry Demarest Lloyd
Marion Barry	Mary Mahoney
Daisy Bates	Albert Maltz
Mary McLeod Bethune	Vito Marcantonio
Julian Bond	Thurgood Marshall
Arna Bontemps	Bill Mauldin
Edward Brooke	Claude McKay
Elaine Brown	Charles McDew
H. Rap Brown	Floyd McKissick
Ralph Bunche	James Meredith
James Cannon	Marion Merriman
Emanuel Celler	Inez Milholland
James Chaney	Jessica Mitford
John Carlos	Anne Moody
Stokely Carmichael	Harry T. Moore
Kathleen Cleaver	Robert Moses
Eldridge Cleaver	Elijah Muhammad
Edward Costigan	Anna Pauli Murray
Jonathan Daniels	Abraham Muste
Charles Darrow	Scott Nearing
Angela Davis	Steve Nelson
Benjamin Davis	Fredrika Newton
Morris Dees	Huey Newton
Ronald Dellums	Edgar Nixon
Oliver Depriest	Peter Norman
John Dewey	Floyd B. Olson
David Dillinger	Mary White Ovington
Michael Donald	Chandler Owen
Hal Draper	Rosa Parks
Edmund Duffy	William Patterson
Leonidas Dyer	Louise Patterson
William Du Bois	James Peck
Crystal Eastman	Victor Rabinowitz
Elizabeth Eckford	Philip Randolph
Medger Evers	James J. Reeb
James Farmer	Walter Reuther
Louis Farrakhan	Paul Robeson
Walter E. Fauntroy	Rubye Robinson
E. Franklin Frazier	Peter Rodino
James Forman	Joel Rogers
Marcus Garvey	Eleanor Roosevelt
Eslanda Goode	Charles Edward Russell
Andrew Goodman	Bayard Rustin
Joanne Grant	George Schuyler
Alex Haley	Michael Schwerner
Fred Hampton	Bobby Seale
Oliver Harrington	Max Shachtman
Hubert Harrison	Fred Shuttlesworth
Fannie Lou Hamer	James Silver
Harry Haywood	Modjeska Simkins
David Hilliard	Agnes Smedley
John Haynes Holmes	Tommie Smith
Benjamin Hooks	Lincoln Steffens
Charles Houston	Mary B. Talbert
George Houser	Mary Church Terrell
William Dean Howells	Norman Thomas
Langston Hughes	Robert Treuhaft
William Bradford Huie	Fanny Garrison Villard
Adella Hunt-Logan	Oswald Garrison Villard
Bobby Hutton	Robert F. Wagner
Harold Ickes	Lillian Wald
George Jackson	William Walling
Jessie Jackson	Booker T. Washington
Jimmie Lee Jackson	Olivia Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson	Ida Wells
James Weldon Johnson	George H.White
Nicholas Katzenbach	Walter F. White
Salaria Kea	Hosea Williams
Florence Kelley	Roy Wilkins
Stetson Kennedy	Milton Wolff
John F. Kennedy	Harris Wofford
Robert Kennedy	Richard Wright
Freda Kirchwey	Ralph Yarborough
Coretta Scott King	Andrew Young
Martin Luther King	Whitney Young
William Kunstler	Samuel Younge
Belle La Follette	Malcolm X
Robert La Follette	Howard Zinn

 

No Place Like Home

Freedom Riders

 

1840-1900: Issues, Events & Organizations
Black Codes	Radical Republicans
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	Fugitive Slave Law
Reconstruction Plans	Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction Acts	Ku Klux Klan
Wade-Davis Act	Freemen's Bureau
Civil Rights (1866)	Civil Rights (1875)
Howard University	Fisk University
13th Amendment	14th Amendment

 

1900-1980: Issues, Events & Organizations
Niagara Movement	Americans for Democratic Action
UNIA	Nonviolent Resistance
Lynching of Rubin Stacy	Strange Fruit
National Association of Colored Women	National Council of Negro Women
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill	Costigan-Wagner Bill
Fisk University	Howard University
Fellowship of Reconciliation	National Urban League
NAACP	Jim Crow Laws
Journey of Reconciliation	March on Washington: 1941
Fair Employment Act (1942)	Little Rock High School
Randolph Institute	Southern Poor Law Centre
Montgomery Bus Boycott	Freedom Riders
Lynching of Emmett Till	Segregated Lunch Counters
SCLC	Congress of Racial Equality
SNCC	Head Start
Black Panthers	Black Power
Freedom Summer	Freedom Schools
Baptist Church Bombing	Black Muslims
March on Washington: 1963	Selma March
Mississippi Burning	March Against Fear
Black Panthers	Civil Rights Memorial
Watts Race Riot	Civil Rights Act (1957)
Civil Rights Act (1960)	Civil Rights Act (1964)
Immigration Act (1965)	Voting Rights Act (1965)