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Pages in category "Civil rights organizations in the United States" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A. Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a socialist in the labor movement and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1925, he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This was the first serious effort to form a labor union for the employees of the Pullman Company, which was a major employer of African Americans.
Pages in category "Civil liberties advocacy groups in the United States" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
"We need to make sure that we rise up because the threats to black and brown people in this country are very real," said Alphonso David, president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum.
Surveillance by U.S. agencies has a long history, with historians and rights advocates having condemned its sweeping and abusive nature in periods like the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement ...
Fine By Me: 2003: Merged into Atticus Circle: Freedom to Marry: 2003: Marriage equality: Dissolved Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) 1990: Gay Liberation Front#United States (GLF) 1969: Dissolved Gay Liberation Network: 1998: Direct action: Active Gay Rights National Lobby: 1976: Merged into the HRC: GenderPAC (GPAC) 1995 ...
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the civil rights movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion ...
The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism .