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Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron; March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union .
Addie L. Ballou (1838–1916) – activist, journalist and lecturer on temperance, women's suffrage, and prison reform. [17] Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement. [18]
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 ...
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 ...
Stacker used various sources to uncover the stories behind 14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you might not recognize.
Addie D. Waites was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 11, 1866, to Jesse and Adeline Waites. [3] Her mother died when she was very young, and Hunton then moved to Boston to be raised by her maternal aunt. [4] In Boston, Hunton attended the Boston Latin School and graduated with a high school diploma. After high school, she attended Spencerian ...
The civil rights activists who left Selma on March 7, 1965 were headed to Montgomery to confront Alabama Gov. George Wallace about police brutality and voting rights.
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955.