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Bruce Boynton, 83 (2020)
Bruce Boynton was a civil rights activist whose 1960 landmark Supreme Court case inspired the iconic Freedom Rides. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Pat Quinn, 37 (1983 - 2020)
Pat Quinn was an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) activist who co-founded the viral Ice Bucket Challenge fundraiser. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Debra White Plume, 66 (1954 - 2020)
Debra White Plume was a Lakota activist who was one of the leaders of the protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Lucille Bridges, 86 (1934 - 2020)
Lucille Bridges was the mother of Ruby Bridges, who made history in 1960 when she began attending an all-white school in New Orleans. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Monica Roberts, 58 (1962 - 2020)
Monica Roberts was a transgender rights advocate who was the founding editor of TransGriot, a blog focusing on trans women of color and the issues that concern them. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Robert Graetz, 92 (1928 - 2020)
Rev. Robert Graetz was a Lutheran minister and civil rights activist who was among the residents of Montgomery, Alabama who organized a historic bus boycott. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Jeanette Carlson, 91 (1929 - 2020)
Jeanette Carlson was an anti-apartheid activist who was a leader of the South African civil rights organization the Black Sash. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Mimi Jones, 73 (1947 - 2020)
Mimi Jones was a civil rights activist who was the subject of a nationally famous photograph of a "swim-in" in St. Augustine, Florida. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Charles Evers (2020)
Charles Evers, the brother of civil rights icon Medgar Evers, was the first black elected mayor of a Mississippi city since the Reconstruction era. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com,...
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C.T. Vivian, 95 (1924 - 2020)
Rev. C.T. Vivian was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to organize sit-ins and marches in the pursuit of equality. For full obituary...
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Emma Sanders, 91 (1928 - 2020)
Emma Sanders was a Mississippi civil rights and voting rights activist who helped bring an end to segregated delegations at the Democratic National Convention. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Larry Kramer (2020)
Larry Kramer was an influential playwright and AIDS activist whose best-known play is "The Normal Heart," which was about the early days of the AIDS crisis. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy...
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Stacey Park Milbern, 33 (1987 - 2020)
Stacy Park Milbern was an activist for disability justice who stressed the importance of listening to LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices in the disability community. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy...
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Aimee Stephens, 60 (1960 - 2020)
Aimee Stephens was a transgender woman whose job discrimination case is currently before the Supreme Court, with a decision expected within days. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click...
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Lillian Kimura, 91 (1929 - 2020)
Lillian Kimura was a civil rights leader who became the first woman to serve as national president of the Japanese American Citizens League, leading the organization from 1992 to 1994. For full...
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Phyllis Lyon, 95 (1924 - 2020)
Phyllis Lyon was a longtime LGBTQ rights activist who had one of California's first same-sex weddings in 2004 when she married her partner of more than 50 years, Del Martin. For full obituary and...
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Rev. Joseph Lowery, 98 (1921 - 2020)
Rev. Joseph Lowery was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who helped Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). For full obituary and coverage from...
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Airickca Gordon-Taylor, 50 (2020)
Airickca Gordon-Taylor was the cousin of Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. Gordon-Taylor was the founder and executive director of the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial...
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Lina Ben Mhenni, 36 (1983 - 2020)
Lina Ben Mhenni was a Tunisian internet activist who maintained the blog "A Tunisian Girl," where she documented a revolt against an oppressive regime and police violence. For full obituary and...
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Juanita Abernathy, 89 (1929 - 2019)
Juanita Abernathy was one of the last remaining civil rights leaders who were there at the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. The wife of civil rights giant Rev. Ralph Abernathy, she was...
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Marca Bristo, 66 (1953 - 2019)
Marca Bristo, advocate for the disabled, who championed the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in Chicago, after a battle with cancer. She was 66. For full obituary...
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Frances Crowe, 100 (1919 - 2019)
Frances Crowe was a peace activist whose long career of protest stretched from 1945 until the final years of her life – including an arrest at age 98 for protesting a natural gas extension into a...
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Baxter Leach, 79 (2019)
Baxter Leach was one of the organizers of the Memphis sanitation workers who participated in a 1968 strike that attracted national attention and brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis, where he...
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Leah Chase, 96 (1923 - 2019)
Leah Chase was the "Queen of Creole Cuisine," the owner of the legendary Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans who fed presidents and made space for civil rights leaders to meet and plan the...
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Austin Eubanks, 37 (1981 - 2019)
Austin Eubanks, Columbine shooting survivor who spoke about his struggle with addiction, was found dead at his home in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Saturday, May 18, 2019, according to multiple news...
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Unita Blackwell, 86 (1933 - 2019)
Unita Blackwell was a civil rights activist who rose from an early life as a sharecropper to become an advisor to seven presidents and the first black woman mayor in Mississippi. For full obituary...
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Kitty Tucker, 75 (2019)
Kitty Tucker was an antinuclear activist who worked with other activists and lawyers to launch a lawsuit in the case of nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood. For full obituary and coverage from...
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Carrie Ann Lucas, 47 (2019)
Carrie Ann Lucas was one of the most prominent disability rights attorneys in the United States. For full obituary and coverage from Legacy.com, click here.
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Rosanell Eaton, 97 (1921 - 2018)
Rosanell Eaton (1921 – 2018) was a lead plaintiff in a 2013 lawsuit in North Carolina that overturned unfair voting restrictions. She was a lifetime advocate for voting rights. She died at the age...
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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga , 93 (1925 - 2018)
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (1925 – 2018), activist and researcher who uncovered U.S. government documents that proved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was racially motivated, has...
