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James Baldwin, civil rights activist, novelist, playwright [5] Marion Barry, civil rights activist, politician; Daisy Bates, civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, lecturer; Carl Bean, AIDS/HIV and LGBT activist and minister; Arekia Bennett, voting rights activist; Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights activist, educator
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 ...
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]
Stacker used various sources to uncover the stories behind 14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you might not recognize.
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Adolph J. Rodenbeck, mayor of Rochester, New York State Assemblyman, Court of Claims Judge, and New York Supreme Court Justice; Eliakim Sherrill, politician and brigade commander in Union Army during Civil War [120] Louise Slaughter, U.S. Representative, chairperson of House Rules Committee [121] Ellicott R. Stillman, Wisconsin State ...
"Harmeet Dhillon is very conservative and hardly a champion of civil rights as it is generally understood," legal scholar and UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said by email Tuesday.
DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. [1] [2] [3] An early supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has been active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland and on social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. [2]