Assata Olugbala Shakur
A Life of Activism and Controversy Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Bryon on July 16, 1947, in New York City, is a figure whose...
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Angela Davis
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Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author who has made significant contributions to the fields of civil rights, feminism, and prison abolition....
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in...
American civil rights movement
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The Civil Rights Movement did not suddenly appear out of nowhere in the twentieth century. Efforts to improve the quality of life for African Americans...
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Rev. James Lawson is one of the most influential figures in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States. He is widely...
Nell Braxton Gibson
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The night terrors started early in life. Nell Braxton Gibson remembers holding her mother’s hands and rushing through the streets, her father, weighed down by...
Matthew Walker Jr
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Matthew Walker Jr. was a key figure in the civil rights movement, whose actions and sacrifices contributed to the lasting change in American society. Born...
Diane Judith
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Civil rights activist Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois to Leon Nash and Dorothy Bolton Nash. Nash grew up...
Luvaghn Brown
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If you were black in Jackson, Miss., during the ’50s, there was no need to look for violence; it found you. And Luvaghn Brown was...
Catherine Burks-Brooks
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For as long as she can remember, Catherine Burks-Brooks was a “bumper.” Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., she was a child who wasn’t going to...