C. Delores Tucker
C. Delores Tucker is best remembered as a civil rights trailblazer who fought for women of color and toward the end of her life against profane and misogynist lyrics in hip-hop/...
Category : Civil Rights
Benjamin Sterling Turner
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Benjamin Sterling Turner was born on March 17, 1825, in Weldon, North Carolina, as a slave. He had no formal education as a child, but...
RICHARD C. BOONE: CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST KNOWN FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SELMA MARCH
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Richard C. Boone was an African-American civil rights activist known for his involvement in the Selma march of 1965. In 1965, Boone led a group...
Bobby Hutton
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Bobby Hutton was an influential figure in the civil rights movement in the United States. Born on April 21, 1950, in Jefferson County, Arkansas, Hutton...
Elbert Williams
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Elbert Williams is the first known member of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to be murdered for his civil rights...
Clyde Kennard
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Clyde Kennard was an African American activist who pioneered the desegregation of higher education in Mississippi. After applying multiple times to Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi),...
Vernon Dahmer
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Vernon Dahmer was born in 1908 in the Kelly Settlement, Forrest County, Mississippi, his parents were Ellen Louvenia (Kelly) and George Washington Dahmer. George Dahmer...
Mary Church Terrell
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Mary Church Terrell, a writer, educator, and activist, co-founded the National Association of Colored Women and served as the organization’s first president. Known as “Mollie”...
W. Haywood Burns
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Influential attorney and civil rights activist William Haywood Burns was born on June 15, 1940, in Peekskill, New York. He was known for his defense of Angela Davis as...
Dorothy Cotton
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Dorothy Cotton was an American civil rights activist and leader, known for being the only woman in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inner circle. She...