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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 ...
He served 49 days with other activists at Parchman. At 19, Carmichael was the youngest detainee in the summer of 1961. He spent 53 days at Parchman in a six-by-nine cell. He and his colleagues were allowed to shower only twice a week, were not allowed books or any other personal effects, and were at times placed in maximum security to isolate them.
On July 17, 2020, Lewis died in Atlanta at the age of 80, [177] [178] [179] on the same day in the same city as his friend and fellow civil rights activist C.T. Vivian. [180] Lewis had been the final surviving "Big Six" civil rights icon. Then-president Donald Trump ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff in response to Lewis's death. [181]
Billy Six (born 24 December 1986) is a German independent journalist, activist, author and vlogger ().He has been active since 2011, when he worked as a war reporter for German newspaper Junge Freiheit in Egypt, but since then has reported from conflict zones including Libya, Syria, Lebanon, and Ukraine for his YouTube channel.
Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. [1] She focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. [2]
Big 6 Brass Band, a brass band from New Orleans, Louisiana "Big Six" (song), by Judge Dread, 1972; Big Six wheel, a casino game; The Big Six, a children's novel by Arthur Ransome; The Big Six, former name for major film studios until the Disney acquisition of Fox; The Big 6, a compilation of video games from the Dizzy series for the Amiga CD32
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the ...
Xernona Clayton Brady (née Brewster, born August 30, 1930) is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive.During the Civil Rights Movement, she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.