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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 ...
This violence played a key role in blocking the progress of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s. Some black organizations in the South began practicing armed self-defense. The first to do so openly was the Monroe, North Carolina, chapter of the NAACP led by Robert F. Williams. Williams had rebuilt the chapter after its membership was ...
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and ...
Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist and retired nurse aide from Montgomery, Alabama. What did Claudette Colvin accomplish? Like Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give ...
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 ...
Depending on which whitewashed version of history you learned, the modern Civil Rights Movement either began in the late 1940s or the 1950s, when Black people all across the country suddenly ...