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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 ...
Julian Bond, civil rights activist, professor and writer; Lillie Mae Bradford, civil rights activist; Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist; Aurelia Browder, civil rights activist [6] Ralph Bunche, civil rights activist, scientist, academic, diplomat; Nannie Helen Burroughs, civil and women's rights activist, educator, religious leader and ...
Pages in category "Activists for African-American civil rights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,148 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *
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.
American Civil Liberties Union people (1 C, 116 P) American civil rights lawyers (1 C, 271 P) A. ... List of 19th-century African-American civil rights activists;
The civil rights icon is being remembered by congressional colleagues, civil rights leaders and former presidents including Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. Rep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of ...
For more than four decades after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the fiery preacher was on the front line of the civil rights struggle. Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK ...
Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights (2 C, 100 P) Pages in category "People involved with the civil rights movement" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.