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Leaders in the Struggle for Civil Rights


Leaders in the Struggle for Civil Rights | JFK Library

Letters and telegrams from key figures help tell the story of the civil rights movement during the Kennedy years. Documents included are from James Farmer, ...

Civil Rights Leaders | NAACP

W.E.B. Du Bois · Mary White Ovington · Thurgood Marshall · More Heroes Who Fought for Civil Rights · Support the movement · Join the fight.

People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1 | American Experience

People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1 · Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990) · Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) (1942-) · Ella Baker (1903-1986) · Amiri Baraka (Everett ...

Civil Rights Movement: Timeline, Key Events & Leaders | HISTORY

The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.

30 Civil Rights Leaders of the Past and Present - Oprah Daily

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) ... Rosa Parks's name is synonymous with the peak of the American civil rights movement. It all stems from December 1, 1955 ...

Important People - Civil Rights (U.S. National Park Service)

Philip Randolph was a labor organizer and one of the most influential political strategists of the twentieth century. His belief in organized ...

List of key figures in the American civil rights movement - Britannica

Martin Luther King, Jr. ... The American civil rights movement's most prominent leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social ...

25 Black Civil Rights Activists You Need to Know - Freedom Forum

Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) are well known as its co-founders, but the group's leaders included others of note, such as Elaine Brown, the ...

List of civil rights leaders - Wikipedia

List of civil rights leaders · Martin Luther King Jr. · Mahatma Gandhi · Olympe de Gouges · Karl Heinrich Ulrichs · Victoria Woodhull · W.E.B. Du Bois · Alice Paul ...

Civil Rights Activists - Leaders Who Fought Change and Freedom

... civil rights activists are known for their fight against social injustice ... Black Activists Who Led the Civil Rights Movement. Jackie Robinson. The ...

The Civil Rights Movement | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline

The Civil Rights Movement ... In the middle of the 20th century, a nationwide movement for equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation ...

Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement | NEH-Edsitement

When most people think of the Civil Rights Movement in America, they think of Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of ...

Black Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement - New Georgia ...

The Black leaders of the civil rights movement came from a variety of backgrounds, but they were all united under a common goal—racial justice. Their work ...

A Long Struggle for Freedom > Civil Rights Era (1950–1963)

Educator and civil rights activist Harry Tyson Moore was one of the earliest leaders to be assassinated during the modern phase of the civil rights movement.

6 Iconic Civil Rights Leaders & Activists You Should Know - PBS

Civil Rights Icons · Ralph Bunche: The First African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner · Whitney Young, Jr.: The Powerbroker · Daisy Bates: First ...

Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement - Brookline, MA

His father was a doctor and later became president of a historically black college. Bond is a social activist and leader in the Civil. Rights Movement, ...

American civil rights movement | Definition, Protests, Activists, & Facts

American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. - NAACP

His arrest and imprisonment as the boycott's leader propelled King onto the national stage as a lead figure in the civil rights movement. "Injustice anywhere is ...

Civil Rights Martyrs | Southern Poverty Law Center

Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr., Delano Herman Middleton and Henry Ezekial Smith were shot and killed by police who fired on student demonstrators at the South ...

The Modern Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration

He announced that major civil rights legislation would be submitted to the Congress to guarantee equal access to public facilities, to end segregation in ...