| 100% | IDABVVELLS | 10 | Investigative journalist and civil rights pioneer who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 65% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Civil rights leader who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 59% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Journalist, suffragist, and civil rights activist who co-founded the NAACP |
| 46% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, civil-rights pioneer and investigative journalist known for A Red Record |
| 42% | VVEBDUBOIS | 10 | Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard |
| 41% | WEBDUBOIS | 9 | Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. and author of "The Souls of Black Folk" |
| 38% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Congressperson and civil rights activist who was awarded the 2016 27-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Politician and civil rights leader who was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 2002: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JAMESBALDVVIN | 13 | Novelist and civil rights activist who wrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" |
| 37% | ASA | 3 | The "A" in A. Philip Randolph, labor and civil rights leader |
| 37% | AIMECESAIRE | 11 | Poet and intellectual who was a founder of the Négritude movement |
| 37% | WEBDUBOIS | 9 | Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 37% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 36% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who gave the "I have a dream" speech |
| 36% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who has a US holiday |
| 35% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Journalist who co-founded the NAACP |
| 35% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 35% | ALICIAKEYS | 10 | American musician who co-founded and is the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit organization "Keep a Child Alive": 2 wds. |
| 35% | LEE | 3 | Tommy ___, co-founder and drummer of the band "Motley Crue" who skydived safely despite it being a close call |
| 34% | HALAS | 5 | Coach who co-founded the N.F.L. |
| 34% | HALAS | 5 | George who co-founded the N.F.L. |
| 34% | ANN | 3 | Jo ___ Robinson, civil rights activist who was a central figure in the Montgomery bus boycott |
| 34% | CLAUDETTE | 9 | ___ Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus nine months before Rosa Parks |
| 34% | MEDGAREVERS | 11 | Civil rights activist who was a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ASA | 3 | ___ Philip Randolph, civil rights activist and founder of the first AFL-chartered African American-led labor union |
| 34% | ANDERSON | 8 | Journalist Cooper who co-wrote the memoir "The Rainbow Comes and Goes" with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt |
| 33% | CLARA | 5 | Clarissa "___" Harlowe Barton was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross |
| 33% | SEMITONEDEAF | 12 | Like a student who thinks a B and a C are the same? |
| 33% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells-Barnett, journalist who co-founded the NAACP |
| 33% | IDA | 3 | Journalist and civil rights leader ___ B. Wells |