Oprah Gail Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey on an isolated farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954. Her name was...
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Wangari Muta Maathai
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A Legacy of Environmental Activism and Leadership Wangari Muta Maathai, born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940, was a pioneering figure in the fields of...
Moses Newson
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When the Freedom Riders risked their lives in 1961 to protest the segregated bus system in the American south, Moses Newson was there. When the...
Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr.
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Born Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr., June 22, 1941, in Philadelphia, PA; died of complications related to leukemia, November 9, 2006, in New York, NY. CBS...
Clara Mae Luper
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Clara Mae Luper, a prominent civil rights leader, was born on May 3, 1923, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, to Ezell and Isabell Shepard. Growing up...
Sheriff Jim Clark
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In the annals of American civil rights history, few figures have left as indelible a mark as Sheriff Jim Clark. Clark, who served as the...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Alabama
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In 1954, Martin Luther King began his first full-time pastorship at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. While at Dexter, King became president of...
EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Founded in 1886 by Pastor John Andrew Parker, a freedman, Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia had only 13 members and no church building upon...
CORDY TINDELL “C.T.” VIVIAN
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Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian was an influential leader in the American civil rights movement. Born on July 30, 1924, in Missouri, Vivian dedicated his life...
Ku Klux Klan Act
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With the passage of the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law,...