Activist Leaders

James Farmer: Civil rights leader who founded an interracial organization called a congress of Equality to confront segregation in the north

Martin Luther King: promoted nonviolent methods of opposition to segregation, led many boycotts

Japanese American Citizens League: organization that pushed the government to compensate the Japanese Americans for properties lost during WWII

Rosa Parks: a black seamstress and NAACP officer who refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus even though it was legally required, her incident was the first major confrontation of civil rights