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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 ...
The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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Stacker used various sources to uncover the stories behind 14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you might not recognize.
Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights (3 C, 100 P) Pages in category "People involved with the civil rights movement" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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) *
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 .
Depending on which whitewashed version of history you learned, the modern Civil Rights Movement either began in the late 1940s or the 1950s, when Black people all across the country suddenly ...