List of African-American activists

This is a list of African-American activists covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans. The United States of America has a long history of racism against its Black citizens. The names detailed below contains only notable African Americans who are known to be activist (sorted by surname).

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References

1. Lists of activists
2. Lists of African Americans
3. List of Jewish American activists
4. List of 19th-century African-American civil rights activists
5. List of African-American Jews
6. List of African-American inventors and scientists
7. List of African-American actors
8. List of civil rights leaders
9. List of African-American LGBT people
10. List of African-American singers
11. List of African-American writers
12. African-American Muslims
13. African Americans
14. List of African-American Republicans
15. List of assassinated human rights activists
16. List of African-American mathematicians
17. List of LGBT rights activists
18. Timeline of African-American firsts
19. List of peace activists
20. List of African American jurists