Ad
related to: black civil rights activists list of members of state
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Erica Garner, civil rights and Black Lives Matter activist [21] Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement; Ernest Green, civil rights activist, part of the Little Rock Nine; Fred Gray, civil rights lawyer; Shields Green, abolitionist; Dick Gregory, civil rights activist; Vicki Garvin, civil rights activist
First African-American appointed State Treasurer of New Jersey: Michellene Davis. 2008; First African-American woman elected Speaker of the California State Assembly: Karen Bass First African-American governor of New York State: David Paterson (elected as lieutenant governor, succeeded on resignation of previous governor)
The first African-American woman to serve as a representative was Shirley Chisholm from New York's 12th congressional district in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement. Many African-American members of the House of Representatives serve majority-minority districts. [4]
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 ...
Pages in category "Activists for African-American civil rights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,151 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *
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 ...
OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...
As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, the U.S. Congress passed laws in the mid-1960s to end segregation and enforce constitutional civil rights and voting rights. As Republicans accommodated the end of Reconstruction becoming more ambiguous on civil rights and with the rise of the Republican lily-white movement , African Americans began ...