| 100% | EVERS | 5 | Civil rights activist Medgar |
| 69% | EVERS | 5 | Civil rights leader Medgar |
| 69% | EVERS | 5 | Civil rights icon Medgar |
| 69% | ROSA | 4 | Civil rights activist Parks |
| 69% | NEAS | 4 | Civil rights activist Ralph |
| 69% | ROSA | 4 | Civil rights activist ___ Parks |
| 69% | LANI | 4 | Civil rights activist Guinier |
| 69% | MEDGAR | 6 | Civil rights activist Evers |
| 69% | ELLA | 4 | Civil rights activist Baker |
| 69% | CESAR | 5 | Civil rights activist Chavez |
| 69% | YOLANDA | 7 | Civil rights activist King |
| 69% | COLIN | 5 | Civil rights activist Kaepernick |
| 69% | IDA | 3 | Civil rights activist Wells |
| 68% | NANNIE | 6 | Civil rights activist ___ Helen Burroughs |
| 66% | ROSAPARKS | 9 | Civil Rights activist known for bus boycott |
| 66% | ROSA | 4 | Late civil rights activist Parks |
| 66% | ROSA | 4 | ___ Parks, American civil rights activist |
| 65% | MILK | 4 | Civil rights activist Harvey played by Sean Penn |
| 65% | MEDGAREVERS | 11 | Civil rights activist buried in Arlington National Cemetery |
| 65% | IDA | 3 | Early civil rights activist __ B. Wells |
| 65% | DEE | 3 | Actress and civil rights activist Ruby |
| 65% | LENA | 4 | Entertainer and civil rights activist Horne |
| 63% | MALCOLMX | 8 | Civil rights activist with a Harlem thoroughfare named after him |
| 63% | MEDGAR | 6 | Evers who was a Mississippi Civil Rights activist |
| 62% | LANI | 4 | Law professor and civil rights activist Guinier of Harvard |
| 60% | ROSA | 4 | Civil rights activist Parks whose famous bus is in the Henry Ford Museum |
| 59% | OPRAHWINFREY | 12 | She plays civil rights activist Annie Lee Cooper in "Selma": 2 wds. |
| 58% | MLK | 3 | American civil rights activist famous for the speech, "I have A Dream": Abbr |
| 57% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Congressperson and civil rights activist who was awarded the 2016 27-Across (2 wds.) |
| 56% | MLK | 3 | The initials of one of the greatest civil rights activists of all time: Abbr. |