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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 ...
The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [1 ...
Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor, civil rights leader; Booker T. Washington, educator, founder of Tuskegee University [24] Ida B. Wells, civil rights activist, co-founder of the NAACP; Cornel West, civil rights activist, philosopher, author, minister; Roy Wilkins, civil rights activist
Stacker used various sources to uncover the stories behind 14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you might not recognize.
Looby, a Nashville civil rights lawyer, was active in the city's ongoing Nashville sit-in for integration of public facilities. May – Nashville sit-ins end with business agreements to integrate lunch counters and other public areas. May 6 – Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Sixty years after civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched to Washington, D.C., to call for freedom and economic growth, today’s generation of civil rights leaders reflect on ...
American civil rights leader and minister Midnight, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Lamar Smith: 1955: 13 August American civil rights leader, farmer, and veteran Brookhaven, Mississippi United States: Unidentified shooter Dr. Thomas Hency Brewer: 1956: 18 February American co-founder of an NAACP chapter Columbus, Georgia United ...
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the... View Article The post 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses ...