American activist Angela Davis, shortly after she was fired from her post as philosophy professor at UCLA due to her membership of the Communist...
Nation of Islam National Minister Malcom X addresses a rally on May 14 in Harlem in support of desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Congressman John Lewis chats with addresses audience attending Nashville Public Library Award to Civil Rights Icon Congressman John Lewis - Literary...
Born into slavery, American writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass bought his freedom with income earned from lecturing abroad after the...
Honorees and co-founders of #BlackLivesMatter, Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors appear onstage during The New York Women's Foundation...
American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery by marrying a free man and led many other slaves to safety using the abolitionist...
American singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone posed in Hyde Park, London in June 1968.
Reverend Jesse Jackson delivers a speech as Americans shout slogans and hold banners during a demonstration against the death of eighteen-year-old...
Tracy Martin, left, and Sybrina Fulton, parents of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, before the start of the Community Program of Peace, Justice and...
Political Activist Van Jones attends the 2016 Many Rivers To Cross Festival at Chattahoochee Hills Bouckaert Farm on October 1, 2016 in Fairburn,...
Black Panther leader Bobby Seale gives a black power salute as he leaves Hartford's Bradley Airport for the trip to New Haven. Seale faces trial in...
Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images) NEW YORK Political activist Al Sharpton poses for a portrait on June 17, 2013 in New York, New York.