We are now thoroughly in the midst of a watershed moment for civil rights in the United States. The internet, cell phones, and social media have mobilized a growing movement for social change in response to the deaths of so many young and often unarmed black people. In this new Civil Rights Era, leaders are raising their voices with determination and hope.

Check out the gallery below and remember these names. They will soon be in textbooks, and most already are.

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Grace Lee Boggs’ career in activism included workers rights, the African American Civil Rights Movement, feminism, and, in her last book—The Next American Revolution—environmental justice.

Photograph by Pete Souza, courtesy the White House

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