People Involved in the Civil Right's Movement?

Question

Who were involved in the Civil Right's Movement/Act? I'm doing a report on it, and I need a person. Please give me a few people, other than Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, or Thurgood Marshall. Thanks!

Answer 1

some Mexican-American political prisoners like Ramsey Muniz

Answer 2

Here's one that is important:

LBJ

That's right!

President Lyndon Johnson !

He was the one responsible for pushing through the voting rights act.  

Most people don't think of LBJ, but his "Great Society" programs put many of the civil rights movements goals into law.

An add-on for Jean's answer (above mine):

Bless You!    A movement has to have followers.  Without those brave people, we might still be living under Jim Crowe.

I Salute You !

Answer 3

Well, you can use my name.  Nobody knows me.  But I was there, front and center, doing whatever it took to bring Civil Rights to ALL Americans.  My name is Jean Bennett.  

I marched in small towns and large, with my child beside me, and thru the Salinas Valley with Robert Kennedy and Ceasar Chavez during the lettuce strikes.  That is why I am more than confident that Robert Kennedy, like his oldest children, Kathleen Robert Jr and Kerry, would support Senator Clinton in this election.

I am a white, 8th generation Scottish-American whose ancestors landed in this country before 1740, and have had a member of the family fight in every war and skirmish since the Revolutionary War.  I had a great, great, great uncle die in a Confederate Prisoner of War camp.  My great grandmother sent 6 sons to World War II; and my grandmother sent her only son.

I feel that I and people like me that no one ever heard of, who are referred to as "white" more than any other group are the ones who really won the Civil Rights battles.  

If you look at those old pictures, you will see us in the crowds, being hosed, having garbage thrown at us, being thrown into jail, having dogs sic'ed on us; but we knew what was right.  And we did what we could to see that the injustices were set right.

So I think the real heroes of the Civil Rights Movement are those people you will never know.  And are always forgotten when the generation of African-Americans we most helped should be telling their children and grandchildren what we did; so there wouldn't be so much hatred by young blacks against all White People.