Activists from Detroit

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

American whistleblower (1931–2023)

American actress, producer, and social activist

American singer (1944–2021)

labor union leader and progressive activist (1907–1970)

American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1934–1997)

animal rights activist

American activist and murder victim (1925–1965)

American homosexual Muslim activist

LGBT rights activist (1899–2000)

American politician and clergyman (1898–1976)

Palestinian-American lawyer and activist

American diplomat (1911–2001)

anti-abortion activist and attorney

American anarchist

US suffragette

American ophthalmologist, white nationalist and anti-immigration activist (1934–2019)

American military personnel

writer

human rights activist

American feminist, journalist and lobbyist