The two crossword solutions for the term FIRST NAME IN CIVIL RIGHTS are ROSA (4 letters) and Coretta (7 letters). ROSA Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a major event in the civil rights movement. Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. She was an advocate for racial equality and women's rights, and she founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.