Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States
african-american writers
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi
W. E. B. Du Bois
American and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor