| 100% | BIKO | 4 | Steve —, South African civil rights leader who died in Pretoria in 1977 |
| 39% | ROSAPARKS | 9 | Civil rights leader who was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 39% | MALCOLMX | 8 | African-American civil rights leader who is celebrated annually on the third Friday of May: 2 wds. |
| 38% | BAYARD | 6 | ___ Rustin, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 38% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Politician and civil rights leader who was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 2002: 2 wds. |
| 38% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, African-American civil rights leader who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation |
| 37% | MARTIN | 6 | ___ Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader who is celebrated annually on the third Monday of January |
| 37% | VVEBDUBOIS | 10 | Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard |
| 37% | DAVIDOYELOWO | 12 | British-Nigerian actor who played American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in "Selma": 2 wds. |
| 36% | MANDELA | 7 | South African civil rights pioneer Nelson |
| 36% | CESARCHAVEZ | 11 | Civil rights leader, played by Michael Peña in a 2014 biopic, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994: 2 wds |
| 35% | BURKE | 5 | Robert O'Hara —, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north who died in 1861 |
| 35% | DOLORESHUERTA | 13 | Civil rights leader, played by Rosario Dawson in the 18-Across biopic, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MLK | 3 | Civil rights leader who "had a dream": Abbr. |
| 35% | NAPOLEON | 8 | Leader who died in exile on St. Helena |
| 35% | STALIN | 6 | Russian leader who died in 1953 |
| 35% | MAO | 3 | Chinese leader who died in 1976 |
| 35% | MARCUS | 6 | & 16D Jamaican Pan-Africanist leader who died in London in 1940 |
| 35% | BURKE | 5 | Robert O'Hara —, Irish soldier, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north, who died in 1861 |
| 34% | GERONIMO | 8 | Chiricahua Apache leader who died in 1909 |
| 34% | CHERNENKO | 9 | Konstantin, Soviet leader who died in 1985 |
| 34% | STALIN | 6 | Joseph —, Soviet leader who died in 1953 |
| 34% | VILLA | 5 | Pancho —, Mexican revolutionary leader who died in 1923 |
| 34% | MLK | 3 | Civil rights leader honored in Jan. |
| 34% | MALCOLMX | 8 | Civil rights leader who asked, "Who taught you to hate yourself?" |
| 34% | JOHNLEWIS | 9 | Civil rights leader who helped lead the Selma marches: 2 wds. |
| 33% | IDABWELLS | 9 | Civil rights leader who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P. |
| 33% | MALCOLMX | 8 | Civil rights leader played by Denzel Washington in a 1992 biopic: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the civil rights leader who has a US holiday |
| 33% | SHAW | 4 | Artie —, US jazz clarinettist and band leader who died in 2004 |