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Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955.
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
Portrait of Myles Horton, founder of Highlander Folk School. Photographer Unknown. WHS Image ID 52275 Myles Horton in the 1930s. Myles Falls Horton (July 9, 1905 – January 19, 1990) [1] was an American educator, socialist, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement (Movement leader James Bevel called Horton "The Father of the Civil Rights ...
The civil rights movement [b] was a social movement and campaign in the United States from 1954 to 1968 that aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country, which was most commonly employed against African Americans.
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 .
James Edward Orange [1] (October 29, 1942 – February 16, 2008), also known as "Shackdaddy", [2] was a leading civil rights activist in the Civil Rights Movement in America. He was assistant to Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement. [3] Orange joined the civil rights marches led by King and Ralph Abernathy in Atlanta in 1963. [3]
Cambridge movement during 1960s Civil Rights Movement Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes ; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement , a civil rights action in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland , on the Eastern Shore .
The work showcases her unique perspective on the civil rights movement and details many of the behind-the-scenes figures and mentors who shaped her life, including Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt. The Dorothy I. Height Building, headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women, located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.