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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.
James Bevel, minister, leader of the civil rights movement; Sojourner Truth, civil rights activist; Gloria Blackwell, civil rights activist, educator; Unita Blackwell, civil rights activist; W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist; Julian Bond, civil rights activist, professor and writer; Lillie Mae Bradford, 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.
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 ...
Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
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 Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his ...