| Name in 1955 news |
| Civil rights pioneer |
| Onetime boycott instigator |
| 1955 civil rights headliner |
| Civil rights movement figure |
| She wouldn't take an affront sitting down |
| Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| Civil rights leader who was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1979: 2 wds. |