Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement

Along with legendary champions, they were among the thousands who sacrificed during the era of change

From AARP

Left to right: Fred Gray, Charles Person and Wille Pearl Mackey King. Credit: RORY DOYLE; LYNSEY WEATHERSPOON; SHURAN HUANG

Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks. Medgar Evers. John Lewis. These names ring through history as leaders of the vast, sprawling events that constituted the Civil Rights Movement, in which African Americans struggled for equality during the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. But the movement could not have succeeded without thousands of people of all races making important, if often overlooked, contributions, and without millions of people moved by their efforts deciding that it was time to do the right thing.

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