The intersection of Civil Rights, the Midwest, and the giants of African American history is one of the most incredible and under-appreciated stories of American history. The list of African Americans who spent significant chapters of their lives in the Midwest is a pantheon of the greatest Civil Rights leaders of all time:
- Sojourner Truth
- Ida B. Wells
- Rosa Parks
- Malcolm X
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- George Washington Carver
- Jesse Jackson
- A. Phillip Randolph
- Barack Obama
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