The Big Six The Big Six are the six major leaders of key civil rights institutions that...
Category - Activists and Leaders
James Farmer
James Farmer (1920-1999) was one of the of the African American Civil Rights Movement of the...
John Lewis
John Lewis (1940) is one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s...
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister, social activist, leader of the Civil...
Philip Randolph
Philip Randolph (1889-1978) was one of the earliest civil rights activists of the 1950s. He...
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins (1901 – 1981) was a prominent civil right activist, leader and journalist...
Whitney Young Jr.
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (1921-1971) was an American Civil Rights leader and head of the...