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Erica Garner, civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist [21] Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement; Ernest Green, civil rights activist, part of the Little Rock Nine; Fred Gray, civil rights lawyer; Shields Green, abolitionist; Dick Gregory, civil rights activist; Vicki Garvin, civil rights activist
Pages in category "Activists for African-American civil rights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,149 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *
Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist and retired nurse aide from Montgomery, Alabama. What did Claudette Colvin accomplish? Like Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give ...
The post 5 Historic Black Political Activists You May Not Know appeared first on TheGrio. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington may be standard makers in ...
The Mississippi Freedom Trail was established in 2011 to commemorate the people and places in the state that played a pivotal role in the American Civil Rights Movement, according to the trail ...
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 ...
She said Black women have long fought battles over issues, including women’s rights, and winning elections. “The work isn't done and I'm accountable and responsible to my people. So I get up.
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era.