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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and Black nationalist leader, Nation of Islam spokesman, hajj pilgrim, Sunni convert, OAAU founder, assassinated at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.
Margaret Brown
Margaret Tobin Brown (1867–1932), Denver philanthropist and reformer mythologized as "Molly Brown" after the Titanic; juvenile justice, Ludlow relief, suffrage, Devastated France; not actually named Molly.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American civil rights lawyer and children's rights activist, first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, and founder and 45-year president of the Children's Defense Fund.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio (1942–1996), American Free Speech Movement leader at UC Berkeley; philosophy student and Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer famous for the 1964 police-car speech and "bodies upon the gears" address.
Martin Luther King III
Martin Luther King III, born 1957, eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist; Fulton County commissioner 1986, fourth SCLC president 1997-2003, founder of Realizing the Dream, voting rights march organizer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, led the Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham Campaign, 1963 March on Washington, and Selma marches; won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in Memphis.
Mary Williams (activist)
Mary Luana Williams (born 1967), American social activist and author, daughter of Black Panther parents, raised by Jane Fonda; founded the Lost Boys Foundation and wrote The Lost Daughter: A Memoir.
Matthew F. Hale
Matthew F. Hale (born 1971), American white supremacist, Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator from 1996; convicted in 2004 of soliciting Judge Joan Lefkow's murder, serving 40 years.
Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (Ronald McKinley Everett, born 1941) is an Africana studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, founder of the Us Organization and Kawaida philosophy, and creator of Kwanzaa in 1966.
Meena Harris
Meena Harris (Meenakshi Ashley Harris), born 1984, is an American lawyer, author, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, and the niece of Kamala Harris.
Meg Mathews
Meg Mathews, British former music and fashion PR, ex-wife of Noel Gallagher, Britpop figure turned menopause campaigner via MegsMenopause, #MegsMenopause, and the book The New Hot.
Michael X
Michael X, born Michael de Freitas, was a Trinidad-born civil rights activist, the most publicized figure of Britain's Black Power movement, hanged in Trinidad in 1975 for murder.
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams, born Myrlie Louise Beasley in 1933, is an American civil rights activist and journalist, widow of Medgar Evers and NAACP chair from 1995 to 1998.
Neha Bora
Neha Bora is an Indian student activist who leads the All India Students' Association and led a 2026 hunger strike.
Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors, also known as Patrisse Khan-Cullors, is an American artist and activist born in Los Angeles in 1983, best known as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
Pattukkottai Alagiri (பட்டுக்கோட்டை ஆழகிரி)
Pattukkottai Alagiri (பட்டுக்கோட்டை ஆழகிரி), also spelled Azhagiri, 1900–1949, Tamil Self-Respect Movement orator called the 'whirlwind speaker' and 'Anjaa Nenjan', co-led the 1938 Trichy-to-Madras anti-Hindi march.
Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell (born 1952, Melbourne) is a British human rights campaigner active since 1967, known for the Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!, the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, Mugabe citizen's arrests, and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, 1921–1990), Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher, founded Ananda Marga in 1955 and propounded PROUT; wrote over 100 books and 5,018 songs.
Prince Hall
Prince Hall (c. 1735-1807) was a free Black Bostonian abolitionist who founded African Lodge No. 459 in 1775-1784, the origin of Prince Hall Freemasonry, the oldest continuously active African American organization.
Qandeel Baloch
Qandeel Baloch (Fauzia Azeem), Pakistani social media celebrity murdered by her brother Waseem in Multan in July 2016 in an honor killing; her death prompted Pakistan's 2016 anti-honor-killing law, his 2019 life sentence, and 2022 acquittal.
Qubilah Shabazz
Qubilah Shabazz (born 1960), second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, was indicted in 1995 for plotting to kill Louis Farrakhan via FBI informant Michael Fitzpatrick; charges were settled without trial in 1995.
Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal, later Nkechi Diallo, is an American activist who led the Spokane NAACP chapter until June 2015, when her parents said she was white; she resigned and said she identifies as black.
Ralph Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy (1926–1990) was a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest friend, co-founder of the SCLC, and its second president (1968–1977), leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign.
Redeemed Zoomer
Redeemed Zoomer, real name Richard Ackerman (born 2002), is an American Presbyterian YouTuber and seminary student whose denominations explainer passed 14.5 million views and who leads Operation Reconquista, a Gen Z conservative-reform movement targeting mainline Protestant churches, notably the PCUSA.
Revilo P. Oliver
Revilo P. Oliver (1908-1994) was a University of Illinois classics professor and classical philologist who co-founded the John Birch Society, wrote "Marxmanship in Dallas," and became a leading intellectual figure of American white nationalism.
Richard B. Spencer
Richard B. Spencer, born Richard Bertrand Spencer, is an American white nationalist credited with coining "alt-right" in 2008 and who led the National Policy Institute through 2016 and 2017.
Richard Girnt Butler
Richard Girnt Butler (1918–2004) was an American white supremacist and Christian Identity minister who took over the Church of Jesus Christ Christian and built it into the Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake, Idaho.
Rita Schwerner Bender
Rita Schwerner Bender, American civil rights activist and family law attorney, widow of CORE worker Michael Schwerner, killed by Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer; later an ACLU and public defender lawyer in Seattle and prosecution witness at the 2005 Killen trial.
Robby Starbuck
Robby Starbuck, Nashville-based conservative activist and former music video director, led 2024 anti-DEI campaigns against Tractor Supply, Ford, Walmart and others, then sued Meta over AI defamation and became its AI-bias adviser in an August 2025 settlement.
Rohith Vemula (రోహిత్ చక్రవర్తి వేముల)
Rohith Vemula (రోహిత్ చక్రవర్తి వేముల), born 1989, was a Dalit PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad who died by suicide on 17 January 2016 after suspension and hostel expulsion following a dispute with ABVP students, sparking nationwide caste-discrimination protests.