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social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people. Walter Francis White: 1895 1955 United States: NAACP executive secretary Maria L. de Hernández: 1896 1986 United States
Rosa Parks was an Alabama native and a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist who fought for civil rights in the United States. What did Rosa Parks accomplish?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. — Article 11. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. — Article 12. [259]
Additionally, The Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy was founded in 1997 as a summer seminar and K–12 workshop program. [77] In 2014 it was merged with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Civil Rights Education Complex on the campus of Jackson State University , Jackson , to create the Fannie Lou Hamer ...
Amy Goodman (born 1957) – American journalist, host of Democracy Now! Paul Goodman (1911–1972) – American writer, psychotherapist, social critic, anarchist philosopher and public intellectual; Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) – Russian anti-nuclear activist during and after Soviet presidency.
Holley spent two decades as a Times foreign correspondent, covering pro-democracy street protests in nearly a dozen other countries before going into teaching. He died Aug. 4 in Nagano, Japan, at ...
On December 17, 1951, the Communist Party–affiliated Civil Rights Congress delivered the petition We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People to the United Nations, arguing that the U.S. federal government, by its failure to act against lynching in the United States, was guilty of genocide under Article II of the UN ...
Former anti-apartheid student protest leader Seth Mazibuko is among activists and educators who believe a crisis is hollowing out the country’s education system.