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James Peck (December 19, 1914 – July 12, 1993 [1] [2]) was an American activist who practiced nonviolent resistance during World War II [3] and in the Civil Rights Movement. He is the only person who participated in both the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 and the first Freedom Ride of 1961, [ 4 ] and has been called a white civil rights ...
James Peck went to pay their bonds, and was hit by a taxi driver in the head. [1] Racial tension began to grow as the journey went on. Martin Watkins, a veteran, was beaten by a group of taxi drivers for speaking to an African American woman at a bus stop.
James Peck (1914–1993) – American anti-war and civil rights activist; advocate of nonviolent civil disobedience; Priscilla Hannah Peckover (1833–1931) – English pacifist, nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize; Mattityahu Peled (1923–1995) – Israeli scholar, officer and peace activist
James Peck (athlete) (1880–1955), Canadian athlete at the 1904 Summer Olympics Sir James Peck (civil servant) (1875–1964), British civil servant and local government officer James Peck (pacifist) (1914–1993), pacifist, radical journalist, and civil rights advocate
James Peck '32, World War II pacifist, Freedom Rider during the Civil Rights Movement Stacey Plaskett '84, U. S. Virgin Islands delegate to the United States House of Representatives Josephine Pucci 2009, U.S. Women's National Hockey Team member
Drake Bell spoke out about being sexually assaulted by Nickelodeon’s Brian Peck for the first time in the new docuseries, Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.. During the third part of the ...
The Boy Meets World costars addressed their past friendship with Peck shortly before the docuseries was released. (Strong, 44, and Friedle, 47, met Peck during his time as a guest star on their ...
Peck, James: 46 White Yes No No Yes A rider on the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation and activism veteran, Peck was the Riders' secondary leader after Farmer. Perkins, Joseph 27 Black Yes No Yes No From Owensboro, Kentucky, Perkins spent time in the army before becoming involved in activism at the University of Michigan.