Civil Rights Movement

To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr Day, here is a list of names inspired by individuals involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s in the United States. My favorites are Bayard, Hosea, and Malcolm


Abernathy - Ralph Abernathy
Bates - Daisy Bates
Bayard - Bayard Rustin
Carmichael - Stokely Carmichael
Clark - Septima Clark
Claudette - Claudette Colvin
Coretta - Coretta Scott King
Daisy - Daisy Bates
Dorothy - Dorothy Height
Du Bois - W.E.B. Du Bois
Ella - Ella Baker
Fred - Fred Shuttlesworth
Gloria - Gloria Richardson
Hosea - Hosea Williams
Huey - Huey Newton
Jackson - Jesse Jackson, Mahalia Jackson
Jesse - Jesse Jackson
King - Martin Luther King Jr
Lewis - John Lewis
Luther - Martin Luther King Jr
Lyndon - Lyndon Johnson
Mahalia - Mahalia Jackson
Malcolm - Malcom X
Marshall -  Thurgood Marshall
Moses - Bob Moses
Nash - Diane Nash
Nina - Nina Simone
Ralph - Ralph Abernathy
Randolph - A Philip Randolph
Rosa - Rosa Parks
Roy - Roy Wilkins
Rustin - Bayard Rustin
Septima - Septima Clark
Simone - Nina Simone
Stanley - Stanley Levison
Stokely - Stokely Carmichael
Thurgood - Thurgood Marshall
Whitney - Whitney M Young

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