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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 ...
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.
Roy Wilkins (August 30, 1901 – September 8, 1981) was a prominent civil rights activist from the 1930s to the 1970s. In 1955, he was named executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He had an excellent reputation as a spokesperson for the Civil Rights Movement.
Pages in category "American civil rights activists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,002 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1961, 18-year-old Person joined a group of 12 other civil rights activists, Black and white, to travel by bus into the Deep South. ... a Morehouse alumnus, called Person a "giant in the civil ...
Although the White Citizens Councils publicly eschewed the use of violence, [2] they condoned the harsh economic and political tactics which were used against registered voters and activists. The members of the White Citizens Councils collaborated in order to threaten jobs, causing people to be fired or evicted from rental homes; they boycotted ...
White civil rights workers from New York Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, along with James Chaney, a Black civil rights activist from Meridian, were arrested in Neshoba County, where they ...
National Association for the Advancement of White People, was a white supremacist organization in the United States which was incorporated on December 14, 1953, in Delaware by Bryant Bowles. It presents itself as a civil rights organization which models itself after the NAACP.