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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

Ralph Abernathy
American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)
Bayard Rustin
American civil rights activist (1912–1987)
Martin Luther King Sr.
American baptist pastor (1899–1984)

Fred Shuttlesworth
Civil rights activist (1922-2011)

Joseph Lowery
American minister (1921–2020)