Rabinowitz, Victor: Judy Richardson

Rainey, Lawrence T.: O.H. Barnett; Rev. Clinton Collier; Steven Fraser; Oliver Goforth; Clay F. Lee; Florence Mars

*Ramsey, Claude: Ernst Borinski; Aaron Henry; John R. Salter; Cecil Shelton

Rankin County: Alean Adams; James D. Randolph; see also Brandon

*Rauh, Joseph: Ella Baker; Ivanhoe Donaldson; Barney Frank; Lawrence Guyot; Aaron Henry; Bill Higgs; Winson Hudson; Edwin King; John Lewis; Jack Newfield; Peter Orris; Judy Richardson; Mendy Samstein; John Stewart; Walter Tillow

Ray, J.L.: John R. Salter

*Raymond, George: Edwin King; Anne Moody; Jessie Morris; John R. Salter

Reagson, Cordell: Sheila Shiki y Kessler Michaels

Reddix, Jacob: Oscar Allan Rogers Jr.

Reedy, Bill: Aaron Henry

Religion

-Baptist church: Obie Clark

-Black Baptist Association: N.R. Burger

-Black Catholic church: Owen Brooks

-Black Muslims: John Buffington

-Catholic church: Annyce Campbell; Andrew R. Carr

-Episcopal church: Duncan Gray; Lawrence Guyot; Clay F. Lee; Jane Menefee Schutt; see also Fellowship of Reconciliation

-interracial ministry: John E. Cameron

-Methodist church: Thelma Barnes; William Jefferson Cunningham; Blanton Doggett; Clarie Collins Harvey; Edwin King; Clay F. Lee; Jack Reed; Joseph E. Wroten; Charles Lemuel Young

-National Council of Churches: Ella Baker; Rims Barber; A. Daniel Beittel; B.L. Bell Jr.; Unita Blackwell; Owen Brooks; Will Davis Campbell; Hodding Carter III; Lawrence Guyot; Fannie Lou Hamer; Aaron Henry; Bill Higgs; Sarah H. Johnson; Harlon and Barbara Joye; Edwin King; Sandy Leigh; Tom Levin; Robert Moses; Mandy Samstein; Mike Sturdivant; Walter Tillow; White racist, Greenwood, Miss.

-role of churches/clergy in the movement: Leon Bell; Unita Blackwell; John E. Cameron; Sarah Davis; William Penn Davis; Blanton Doggett; Duncan Gray; Lawrence Guyot; Jan Handke; Clarie Collins Harvey; John Hulett; Vera Jackson; Hickman Johnson; Edwin King; Cleo Mason; Sammie Rash; Jimmy Russell; Eugene E. Spencer; Beatrice Williams

- St. Andrews: John Garner

-Tupelo Ministerial Association: Blanton Doggett

-United Church Women: Jane Menefee Schutt

-Young Concerned Christians: Peter Stewart

*Reeves, Frank: Aurela Norris Young

Regional Council of Nigro Leadership: Duncan Gray

Republican Party: Harry Bowie; Gil Carmichael; Aaron Henry; Robert B. Patterson; Karl Wiesenburg

- Black and Tan Republicans: N.R. Burger; James Elliot Carter; Amzie Moore

Reuther, Walter: Joseph Rauh; Judy Richardson

*Richardson, Judy: Fay Bellamy

Riggs, Willie: Stokely Carmichael

*Ripley, Minnie: Phillip West

Roberts, Wayne: Obie Clark

Robeson. Paul: Umoja Kwanguvu

Robinson, Reggie: Charles Cobb and Ivanhoe Donaldson; Hollis Watkins

Roessler, Gus: Troy Catchings; Vernon Keys; Harvey T. Ross

Rolling Fork, : Charles Cobb and Ivanhoe Donaldson; see also Sharkey County

*Romaine, Anne: Lawrence Guyot; Edwin King

Romaine, Howard: Cathy Cade; J. Eugene Guerrero

*Ross, Harvey: Andrew R. Carr

Ross, Matt: Albert Butler

Royals, Tom: Dixon Pyles

*Rubin, Larry: Barry Clemson

Ruffin, David: Anonymous

Ruffin, Susie: Pinkey Hall

Ruleville: Unita Blackwell; Charles Cobb; Charles Cobb and Ivanhoe Donaldson; Fannie Lou Hamer; Constance Slaughter Harvey; Christopher Hexter; Lillie Jones; Amzie Moore; Robert Moses; see also Sunflower County

Russell, J.D: Hollis Watkins

Russell Amendment: Marshall Burke

Rust College: Margaret Walker Alexander; Clarice T. Campbell; Doris Derby; James Farmer; Vernon Keys; Leslie McLemore; Amzie Moore; Larry Rubin; Jimmy Russell

*Rustin, Bayard: Will Davis Campbell; J. Eugene Guerrero; Lawrence Guyot; Aaron Henry; Harlon and Barbara Joye; Edwin King; John O'Neal; Peter Orris; Walter Tillow