Civil Rights and Suffrage Leaders and Abolitionists
- Irene Osgood Andrews, woman's rights advocate best known for her writings on the problems of women in industry (born in Big Rapids)
- Leonard Baker, abolitionist, American Congregational minister (born in Detroit)
- Olympia Brown, woman suffrage leader (born in Prairie Ronde)
- Pearl M. Hart, civil rights advocate and lawyer, activist for gay rights and the rights of immigrants (born in Traverse City)
- Erastus Hussey, abolitionist and leading Underground Railroad stationmaster (from Battle Creek)
- Viola Liuzzo, 1960s white civil rights advocate who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan (born in California, Pennsylvania; moved to Detroit)
- Malcolm X, Civil Rights Leader (born in Omaha, Nebraska; raised in Lansing)
- Katharine Dexter McCormick, biologist, woman suffrage leader & philanthropist (born in Dexter)
- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (born in Tuskegee, Alabama; moved to Detroit)
- Lawrence Plamondon, cofounder of the White Panther Party, activist, and first hippie to be on the FBI's Most Wanted List (adopted and raised in Traverse City, active in Ann Arbor, now living in Barry County)
- Jonathan Walker, abolitionist and subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Man With The Branded Hand (born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts; settled in Muskegon)
- Sojourner Truth (lived in Battle Creek)
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