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91 relations: A. Philip Randolph, African Americans, All the Way (film), Anti-communism, Arnold Aronson, Benjamin Hooks, Birmingham campaign, Black Power, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Brown v. Board of Education, Citizens' Councils, Civil and political rights, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil rights movement, Civil rights movement (1896–1954), Cold War, Communism, Communist Party USA, Daisy Bates (activist), Democratic Party (United States), Direct action, Emeritus, Emmitt Douglas, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fred Shuttlesworth, Freedom Riders, Gerald Ford, Gil Scott-Heron, Grassroots, Heart arrhythmia, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, J. Edgar Hoover, Jamaica, Queens, Jimmy Carter, Joe Morton, John F. Kennedy, Journalist, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Liberalism, List of civil rights leaders, Louisiana, Lynching, Lyndon B. Johnson, March Against Fear, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Memphis, Tennessee, Minnesota Daily, Mississippi, Molefi Kete Asante, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ..., NAACP, New York City, Newspaper, Omega Psi Phi, Paris Peace Treaties, 1947, Paul Robeson, Picketing, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Regional Council of Negro Leadership, Richard Nixon, Robert F. Williams, Robert Penn Warren, Roger Wilkins, Rondo Neighborhood, Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Second-class citizen, Selma to Montgomery marches, Social work, Sociology, Spingarn Medal, St. Louis, Supreme Court of the United States, T. R. M. Howard, Tennessee, The Call (Kansas City), The Crisis, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Thurgood Marshall, Time (magazine), Timeline of the civil rights movement, Uncle Tom, United States Congress, University of Minnesota, Voting Rights Act of 1965, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Francis White, Watts, Los Angeles, Western Appeal, Who Speaks for the Negro?, 100 Greatest African Americans. Expand index (41 more) »
A. Philip Randolph
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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All the Way (film)
All the Way is a 2016 American biographical television drama film based on events of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson directed by Jay Roach and adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his play with the same title.
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Anti-communism
Anti-communism is opposition to communism.
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Arnold Aronson
Arnold Aronson (March 11, 1911 – February 17, 1998) was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980.
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Benjamin Hooks
Benjamin Lawson Hooks (January 31, 1925 – April 15, 2010) was an American civil rights leader.
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Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Black Power
Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was, in 1925, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Citizens' Councils
The Citizens' Councils (also referred to as White Citizens' Councils) were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Civil rights movement (1896–1954)
The African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is a communist political party in the United States established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America.
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Daisy Bates (activist)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Direct action
Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.
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Emeritus
Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.
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Emmitt Douglas
Emmitt James Douglas (October 14, 1926 – March 25, 1981) was an African-American businessman from New Roads, Louisiana, who served as president of his state's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1966 until his death.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Fred Shuttlesworth
Frederick Lee "Fred" Shuttlesworth (born Fred Lee Robinson, March 18, 1922 – October 5, 2011), was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.
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Gil Scott-Heron
Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet,Kot, Greg (May 26, 2011).
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Grassroots
A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
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Heart arrhythmia
Heart arrhythmia (also known as arrhythmia, dysrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat) is a group of conditions in which the heartbeat is irregular, too fast, or too slow.
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Humphrey School of Public Affairs
The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota is one of the country's top-ranked professional public policy and planning schools.The school is noted for equipping students to play key roles in public life at the local, state, national, and global level and offers six distinctive master's degrees, a doctoral degree, and six certificate programs.
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J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.
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Jamaica, Queens
Jamaica is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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Joe Morton
Joseph Thomas Morton, Jr. (born October 18, 1947) is an American stage, television, and film actor.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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Journalist
A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.
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Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (The Leadership Conference), formerly called the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, is an umbrella group of American civil rights interest groups.
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Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.
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List of civil rights leaders
Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights.
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Lynching
Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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March Against Fear
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Minnesota Daily
The Minnesota Daily is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
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Molefi Kete Asante
Molefi Kete Asante (born Arthur Lee Smith Jr.; August 14, 1942) is an African-American professor.
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Mound Bayou, Mississippi
Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.
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Omega Psi Phi
Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ) is an international fraternity with over 750 undergraduate and graduate chapters.
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Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
The Paris Peace Treaties (Traité de Paris) was signed on 10 February 1947, as the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference, held from 29 July to 15 October 1946.
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Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.
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Picketing
Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.
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Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award of the United States.
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Regional Council of Negro Leadership
The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) was a society in Mississippi founded by T. R. M. Howard in 1951 to promote a program of civil rights, self-help, and business ownership.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
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Robert F. Williams
Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961.
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
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Roger Wilkins
Roger Wilkins (January 29, 1932 – March 26, 2017) was an African-American civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist.
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Rondo Neighborhood
St. Paul's Rondo Neighborhood was the center of the local black community in the 20th century Twin Cities area.
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Roy Wilkins Auditorium
Roy Wilkins Auditorium is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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Second-class citizen
A second-class citizen is a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there.
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Selma to Montgomery marches
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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Social work
Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Spingarn Medal
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American.
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St. Louis
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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T. R. M. Howard
Theodore Roosevelt Mason "T.
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Tennessee
Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.
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The Call (Kansas City)
Kansas City The Call, or The Call is an African-American newspaper founded in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri by Chester A. Franklin.
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The Crisis
The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron.
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Timeline of the civil rights movement
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement, a nonviolent freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for African Americans.
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Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W.
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Walter Francis White
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an African-American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for almost a quarter of a century, 1931–1955, after starting with the organization as an investigator in 1918.
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Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California.
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Western Appeal
The Western Appeal was a weekly newspaper published from 1885 to 1923.
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Who Speaks for the Negro?
Who Speaks for the Negro? is a 1965 book of interviews by Robert Penn Warren conducted with Civil Rights Movement activists.
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100 Greatest African Americans
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wilkins
