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This list contains the names of notable African American civil rights activists and thinkers who pushed for emancipation, equality, and racial justice during the 19th century.[1]
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
Activists
- Harriet Tubman
- Philip Alexander Bell
- Katherine "Kate" Brown
- Charlotte L. Brown
- Norris Wright Cuney
- Robert Fox
- Nellie Griswold Francis
- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings
- Sallie Robinson
- Frederick Douglass
- Sojourner Truth
- Booker T. Washington
- Ida B. Wells
- Florence Kelley
- W. E. B. Du Bois
References
- ^ Newman, Richard (Winter 2023). "Early Black Thought Leaders and the Reframing of American Intellectual History". Journal of the Early Republic. 43 (4): 631–643. doi:10.1353/jer.2023.a915166 – via EBSCOHost.