| 100% | MALCOLMX | 8 | Civil rights leader who asked, "Who taught you to hate yourself?" |
| 43% | VVEBDUBOIS | 10 | Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard |
| 41% | MLK | 3 | Civil rights leader who "had a dream": Abbr. |
| 40% | DOLORES | 7 | Civil-rights leader Huerta, who worked with Cesar Chavez to unionize farmworkers |
| 39% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Legendary civil-rights leader who led a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery |
| 39% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Civil rights leader who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 38% | MAO | 3 | Leader who said "It is right to rebel" |
| 38% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who has a US holiday |
| 38% | MALCOLMX | 8 | Civil rights leader who also went by el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz: 2 wds. |
| 38% | BIKO | 4 | Steve —, South African civil rights leader who died in Pretoria in 1977 |
| 37% | ROSAPARKS | 9 | Civil rights leader who was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 37% | HOSEA | 5 | Civil rights leader Williams, who was an associate of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 37% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who gave the "I have a dream" speech |
| 36% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Politician and civil rights leader who was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 2002: 2 wds. |
| 36% | BAYARD | 6 | ___ Rustin, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 36% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation |
| 35% | MENTOR | 6 | "Someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself," per Oprah |
| 35% | MALCOLMX | 8 | African-American civil rights leader who is celebrated annually on the third Friday of May: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MARTIN | 6 | ___ Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader who is celebrated annually on the third Monday of January |
| 35% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Civil rights icon who led a historic march from Selma to Montgomery on 3/7/1965 |
| 34% | ALEXA | 5 | Assistant who will rap for you when asked to do so |
| 34% | JACKIEROBINSON | 14 | Baseball great and civil rights leader who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier on this day 76 years ago |
| 33% | ALEXA | 5 | Whom you might ask to turn off the lights, nowadays |
| 33% | SEATMATE | 8 | Airplane passenger who's right next to you |
| 33% | DAVIDOYELOWO | 12 | British-Nigerian actor who played American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Selma": 2 wds. |
| 33% | GOLFPRO | 7 | Person who can teach you how to properly swing a club: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ARE | 3 | "Who ___ you to ask me that?" |
| 32% | ELSA | 4 | Disney princess who is asked, "Do you want to build a snowman?" |
| 32% | FDR | 3 | Prez who said, "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made" |
| 32% | ROY | 3 | Civil rights leader Wilkins |