Library: Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers: Timeline/Index of Activists and Thinkers

Beginnings to the Civil War (1619-1865)

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Zitkala-Sa (Getrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938)
A. J. Muste (1885-1967)
Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
Myles Horton (1905-1990) - Brief Entry
Luisa Moreno (1907-1992)
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
James Peck (1914-1993)
George Houser (1916-2015)

Septima Pointsette Clark (1898-1987)
Martin Luther King, Sr. (1899-1984)
Ella Baker (1903-1986)
Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
Jo Ann Robinson (1912-1992)
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Kelly Miller Smith, Jr. (1920-1984)
James Farmer (1920-1999)
Whitney Young (1921-1971)
Aaron Henry (1922-1997)
Fred Shuttlesworth (1922-2011)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
C.T. Vivian (1924-2020)
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)
James Forman (1928-2005)
James Lawson (1928-2024)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Andrew Young (1932- )
James Meredith (1933- )
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Robert Parris Moses (1935-2021)
Marion Barry (1936-2014)
James Bevel (1936-2008)
Diane Nash (1938-)
Julian Bond (1940-2015)
Anne Moody (1940-2015)
John Lewis (1940-2020)
Bernard Lafayette (1940- )
Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998)