| CESARCHAVEZ | American farm worker and civil rights activist born 31 March 1927 (5,6) |
| BACKHANDED | Damning kind of praise for rugby player, farm worker and journalist (10) |
| SHEARERS | Farm workers and soldiers covered in terrible rashes (8) |
| ORRAMEN | Farm workers and soldiers given a dish of broth |
| CALENDARMONTH | 1 to 31 March, for example (8,5) |
| APRILFOOL | A trick played on someone the day after 31 March (5,4) |
| ROBESON | Paul, U.S. bass baritone singer, actor and civil rights activist born in 1898 (7) |
| NINASIMONE | Stage name of the US singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist born Eunice Kathleen Waymon |
| ANGELOU | Maya, poet and civil rights activist born in St Louis in 1928 (7) |
| LIZCARR | Actress, comedian and disability rights activist born in 1972 (3,4) |
| CARR | Liz, comedian and disability rights activist, born in 1972 (4) |
| BESANT | Annie, educationist and women's rights activist born in 1847 (6) |
| PEON | Stop last one used by a Latin American farm worker |
| CAMPESINO
| Can impose difficulties on the American farm worker (9) |
| SOJOURNER | ___ Truth, a women's rights activist born into slavery in America (9) |
| LENA | Singer and performer and civil rights activist Horne (4) |
| LENAHORNE | American singer, dancer, actress and civil rights activist who joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 in 1933 (4,5) |
| MIRIAM | South African singer and civil rights activist, ... Makeba |
| ALI | Muhammad ___, late boxer and civil rights activist (3) |
| ADAH | ___ Belle Samuels Thoms, pioneering nurse and civil rights activist |
