Civil Rights Leaders and Community Activists
- Lupe Anguiano - civil rights activist
- Norma V. Cantu - civil rights lawyer and college professor
- Carlos Cadena - attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
- Aurora Castillo - environmental activist
- Sal Castro - civil rights activist and educator
- Ernesto Chacon - Latino and low income civil rights activist
- César Chávez(1927–1993) - labor leader and activist
- Linda Chavez-Thompson - former executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO
- Miguel Contreras - labor leader
- Bert Corona - labor and community organizer
- Ricardo Cruz - attorney, civil rights activist
- Maria Echaveste - former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
- Josefina Fierro de Bright - civil rights activist during The Great Depression
- Gustavo C. Garcia - attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case
- Rodolfo Gonzales — leader of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, boxer, poet
- José Ángel Gutiérrez — political activist, founder of the Raza Unida Party, writer, and professor
- John J. Herrera - civil rights leader
- Dolores Huerta - civil rights leader
- Nativo Lopez - civil rights activist
- Mimi Lozano - co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research
- Angel G. Luévano - labor leader and activist
- Rueben Martinez - activist and businessman
- Eliseo Medina - labor activist
- Janet Murguía - civil rights activist
- Alex Pacheco, activist
- Olga Talamante - political activist
- Emma Tenayuca - labor organizer
- Reies López Tijerina - activist, founder of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes
- John Trudell - Musician, Author, Poet, & Political Activist
- Baldemar Velasquez - president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- Raul Yzaguirre - civil rights activist
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