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Pauli Murray (1910–1985) – civil and women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest [6] Diane Nash (born 1938) – Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights exponent John Neal (1793–1876) – eccentric, writer and critic, America's first women's rights lecturer [ 7 ]
African American women of the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) played a significant role to its impact and success. Women involved participated in sit-ins and other political movements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955).
It includes American civil rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American women civil rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 428 total.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Civil rights activists. It includes Civil rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
In a region rich with the history of civil rights and voting rights that changed the country, Black women are credited with recently helping two Democrats pull off an upset in Georgia and win ...
It has long been said that women were the backbone of the civil rights movement. That was true even in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the charismatic leader whose name has become synonymous ...
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
Melanie L. Campbell is an American activist and the president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, a national civil rights nonprofit organization. She is best known for her voting-rights activism.