Who's a not-so-well known African American leader?

Question

We have to do a project in school for Black History Month, and everyone else is doing Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, etc. You know, the leaders we usually talk about in school. Who's a leader that impacted African Americans, but isn't celebrated and known?

Winner gets ten points and personal homework help from me (this is a rare situation!) for the rest of the year. Yay?

Answer 1

Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
Ella Baker, civil rights activist
Amira Baraka, American poet, playwright, and political activist
Daisy Bates, civil rights leader
Julian Bond, U.S. civil rights leader
Stokely Carmichael, radical civil rights leader
Kenneth B. Clark, civil rights leader
Eldridge Cleaver, American social activist
Angela Davis, political activist, author
Medgar Evers, civil rights leader
Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader
James Farmer, civil rights leader
Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer, civil rights activist
Benjamin Hooks, American black leader
Charles Hamilton Houston, civil rights lawyer
Roy Innis, civil rights leader
James Weldon Johnson, civil rights leader
John R. Lewis, civil rights leader
Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader
James Meredith, civil-rights leader, author
Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Representative and NAACP CEO
Benjamin Franklin Muhammad, civil-rights and religious leader
Elijah Muhammad, black nationalist leader
Huey Newton, black activist
A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist
Bobby Seale, black activist
Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights activist
Nina Simone, civil rights activist
C. K. (Charles Kenzie) Steele, civil rights activist
Moorfield Storey, civil rights leader
Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
Walter White, American leader
Roy Wilkins, American social reformer and civil rights leader
Whitney M. Young, Jr., social reform