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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 ...
List of LGBT rights activists; List of Muslim feminists; List of Nigerian human rights activists; List of opponents of slavery; List of Pakistan Movement activists; List of peace activists; List of suffragists and suffragettes; List of women's rights activists; List of women pacifists and peace activists; List of women climate scientists and ...
Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous Black historical figures out there. She was born into slavery in Maryland in the early 19th century. She was born into slavery in Maryland in the early ...
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 women's rights activist [47] Frankie Muse Freeman: 1916–2018: 101: American civil rights attorney [48] Victor Fuentealba: 1922–2024: 101: American labor union leader [49] Marian Fuks: 1914–2022: 108: Polish historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute [50] Margaret Gardiner: 1904–2005: 100: British art collector and ...
Harry died while being transported to the hospital, while Harriette died nine days later of her injuries. Their assassination made them the first martyrs of the movement and was the first assassination of any activist to occur during the Civil Rights Movement, and the only time that a husband and wife were killed during the history of the movement.
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 ...