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Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
Anna J. Cooper, civil and women's rights activist, author, educator, sociologist, scholar [11] John Anthony Copeland Jr., abolitionist; Patrisse Cullors, civil rights activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement [12] [13] [14] Elijah Cummings, civil rights advocate
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [ 40 ] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement.
Civil society acts as a forum for people with common goals and interests to further develop democratic ideals, which in turn can lead to a more democratic state. [16] Membership in these kinds of associations serves as a source of information which reduces the barriers to collective action. [17]
Students for a Democratic Society (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Civil rights organizations in the United States" The following 115 pages are in this category, out of ...
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 main aim of the successful civil rights movement and other social movements for civil rights included ensuring that the rights of all people were and are equally protected by the law. These include but are not limited to the rights of minorities , women's rights , disability rights and LGBT rights .
A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979), notable leader in American labor movement and civil rights movement [37] Rachel Carson (1907–1964), environmentalist; Walter Reuther (1907–1970), leader in American labor movement and civil rights movement [38] Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), voting and civil rights activist [39]