| KING | ___ Jr, US Christian minister and civil rights leader assassinated in Memphis in 1968 (6,6,4) |
| MARTINLUTHER | ___ Jr, US Christian minister and civil rights leader assassinated in Memphis in 1968 (6,6,4) |
| CONNICK | Harry __, Jr. US singer who is a judge on TV's American Idol (7) |
| ROBERTSON | Leader of the US Christian Coalition which has become increasingly influential in the politics of th |
| LUTHER | Martin _ King Jr, US civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1968 (6) |
| CUBA | ___ Gooding Jr, US actor (4) |
| MALCOLMX | US black civil-rights leader, assassinated in New York in 1965 (7,1) |
| ASA | The "A" in A. Philip Randolph, labor and civil rights leader |
| VVEBDUBOIS | Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard |
| JACKIEROBINSON | Baseball great and civil rights leader who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier on this day 76 years ago |
| ELLA | ___ Baker, 20th-century activist and civil rights leader |
| TIMBERLAKE | Justin, U.S. singer/songwriter born in Memphis in 1981 (10) |
| LESDARCY | Maitland boxer who died in Memphis in 1917, aged 21 (3,5) |
| MISSUSA | Pagant held in Memphis in 2020 |
| ELVISPRESLEY | Rock singer who died in Memphis in 1977 (5,7) |
| HOLIDAYINN | Global hotel chain founded in Memphis in 1952 |
| GANDHI | Mohandas, known as Mahatma, Indian political leader assassinated in 1948 (6) |
| INDIRA | Mrs. Gandhi, Indian leader assassinated in 1984 (6) |
| INDIRAGANDHI | Indian leader assassinated in 1984 (6,6) |
| RABIN | Yitzhak, Israeli leader assassinated in 1995 (5) |
