List of People From Mississippi - Activists and Advocates

Activists and Advocates

• James Bevel (1936–2008), clergyman, civil rights activist (Itta Bena)
• Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South (Tylertown)
• Curtis Conway "C.C." Bryant (1917–2007), African-American civil rights leader (Tylertown)
• Will D. Campbell (born 1924), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County)
• James Chaney (1943–1964), African-American civil rights worker (Meridian)
• Vernon Dahmer (1908–1966), African-American civil rights leader (Hattiesburg)
• Charles Evers (born 1922), African-American civil rights leader (Decatur)
• Medgar Evers (1925–1963), African-American civil rights leader (Decatur)
• Myrlie Evers-Williams (born 1933), African-American civil rights leader (Vicksburg)
• Dianna Freelon-Foster, African-American civil rights activist, first female and first African-American mayor of her hometown, (Grenada)
• C. L. Franklin (1915–1984), Baptist minister, father of Aretha Franklin (Shelby)
• Lloyd L. Gaines (1911–1939?), challenged segregation at University of Missouri School of Law, disappeared in 1939 (Water Valley)
• Duncan M. Gray, Jr. (born 1926), Episcopal clergyman, civil rights activist (Canton)
• Percy Greene (1897–1977), journalist, activist (Jackson)
• Lawrence Guyot (born 1939), civil rights activist (Pass Christian)
• Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), civil rights, voting rights activist (Ruleville)
• Perry Wilbon Howard (1877–1961), Republican attorney and civil rights activist; served as assistant United States Attorney General under President Herbert Hoover (Ebenezer)
• Winson Hudson (1916–2004) civil rights activist (Harmony)
• Clyde Kennard (1927–1963) civil rights activist (Hattiesburg)
• Edwin King (born 1936), civil rights activist, Tougaloo College chaplain (Jackson)
• James Meredith (born 1933), first African-American student at the University of Mississippi (Kosciusko)
• Anne Moody (born 1940), civil rights activist, author (Centreville)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), civil rights activist, women's rights activist (Holly Springs)
• Donald Wildmon (born 1938) founder of American Family Association (Dumas)