<Li> Julian Bond (1940--2015)--American activist, politician, scholar, NAACP chairman </Li> <Li> Prathia Hall (1940--2002)--American SNCC activist, a leading speaker in the civil rights movement </Li> <Li> Stokely Carmichael (1941--1998)--American SNCC and Black Panther activist, organizer, speaker </Li> <Li> James Orange (1942--2008)--American SCLC activist and organizer, a voting rights movement leader, trade unionist </Li>

Important figures in the african american civil rights movement