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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. [1]

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

A Song Flung Up to Heaven is the sixth book in author Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies.

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A. D. King

Alfred Daniel Williams “A.

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A. G. Gaston

Arthur George Gaston (July 4, 1892 – January 19, 1996) was an American businessman who established a number of businesses in Birmingham, Alabama, and who played a significant role in the struggle to integrate Birmingham in 1963.

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Abraham Woods

Abraham Lincoln Woods, Jr. (October 7, 1928 – November 7, 2008) was an American civil rights leader, who helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and stood behind Martin Luther King, Jr. during his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was a Baptist pastor and an American politician, who represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945–71).

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Addie L. Wyatt

Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron; March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement, and a civil rights activist.

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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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African Americans and birth control

The history of African American women and their participation in the birth control movement reflects a very conflicted set of ideals regarding African American women, the use of contraceptive practices and abortion.

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African-American history

African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-Americans or Black Americans in the United States.

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African-American studies

African-American studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans.

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Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) was a civil rights organization in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, which coordinated boycotts and sponsored federal lawsuits aimed at dismantling segregation in Birmingham and Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Alabama State University

Alabama State University (ASU), founded in 1867, is a public historically black university located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.

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Albany Movement

The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voter's rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November of 1961.

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Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Albert Turner (civil rights activist)

Albert Turner (February 29, 1936 – April 13, 2000) was an American civil rights activist and an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was Alabama field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped lead the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery; he was beaten on Bloody Sunday.

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Allen Johnson (activist)

Allen Johnson was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, an activist in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and he was also a minister of religion.

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Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity.

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Amelia Boynton Robinson

Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1911 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.

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American Experience (season 19)

Season nineteen of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 2, 2006 and concluded on May 14, 2007.

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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is a 1989 autobiography written by African-American civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy.

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Andrew Young

Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 13, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist.

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Angie Dickerson

Angie Dickerson was a New York-based tenants' rights organizer involved in the Communist Party, and was under surveillance by the FBI.

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April 1963

The following events occurred in April 1963.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

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Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches

The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) was a U.S. church body that existed from 1976 through the end of 1987.

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Aurelia Browder

Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman (January 29, 1919 – February 4, 1971) was an African-American civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.

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Bearing the Cross

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a 1986 book by David J. Garrow about Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the American Civil Rights Movement.

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Ben Branch

Ben F. Branch (January 8, 1928 – August 27, 1987) Chicago Tribune, August 28, 1987 was an American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist, and bandleader.

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Benjamin Chavis

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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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Bernard Lafayette

Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette), Jr. (born July 29, 1940) is a longtime civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Bernard Lee (activist)

Bernard Lee (2 October 1935 – 10 February 1991) was an activist and member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Bernice King

Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963) is an American minister best known as the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

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Bernice Robinson

Bernice Robinson (1914-1994) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement and education proponent who helped establish adult Citizenship Schools in South Carolina.

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Betty Jean Owens

Betty Jean Owens is an African American woman who was brutally raped by four white men in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959.

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Big Six (civil rights)

The Big Six refer to the chairmen, presidents, and leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations active during the height of the Civil Rights Movement who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

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Bill Beeny

Bill Beeny (born September 1, 1926 in Madisonville, Kentucky, United States) is a Baptist minister and self-declared segregationist who led organizations in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1960s.

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Billy Graham

William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well known internationally in the late 1940s.

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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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Birmingham Civil Rights District

The Birmingham Civil Rights District is an area of downtown Birmingham, Alabama where several significant events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s took place.

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Birmingham riot of 1963

The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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Black nationalism

Black nationalism is a type of nationalism which espouses the belief that black people are a nation and seeks to develop and maintain a black identity.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.

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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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Black Power and the American Myth

Black Power and the American Myth is a 1970 book by Reverend C. T. Vivian that analyzes the Civil Rights Movement.

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Black Southerners

Black Southerners are African-Americans living in the Southern United States, the region with the largest population of African-Americans in the United States.

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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s.

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Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (– November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States.

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Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Alabama)

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church in Selma, Alabama, United States.

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Bull Connor

Theophilus Eugene Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973), known as Bull Connor, was an American politician who served as an elected Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades.

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Bus Riders Union (Los Angeles)

The Bus Riders Union (BRU) (also called Sindicato de Pasajeros (SDP) and 버스 승객 조합 (버승조)) is a United States civil rights social movement organization established in Los Angeles, California in 1994.

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Byron Brown

Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) is the 62nd and current mayor of Buffalo, New York, elected on November 8, 2005 and is the City's first African-American mayor.

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C. O. Simpkins Sr.

Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins Sr. (born January 13, 1925) is a retired dentist and civil rights activist from Shreveport, Louisiana, who served from 1992 to 1996 as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the heavily African-American District 4 in Caddo Parish.

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C. T. Vivian

Cordy Tindell Vivian, usually known as C. T. Vivian (born July 30, 1924), is a minister, author, and was a close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Camille Cosby

Camille Olivia Cosby (née Hanks; born March 20, 1944) is an American television producer, author, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby.

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Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas

Camp Casey was the name given to the encampment of anti-war protesters outside the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas during US President George W. Bush's five-week summer vacation there in 2005, named after Iraq War casualty US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan.

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Canaan Baptist Church (Bessemer, Alabama)

Canaan Baptist Church is a historic church at 824 Fifteenth Street North in Bessemer, Alabama.

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Candy Dawson Boyd

Candy Dawson Boyd (born August 8, 1946) is an American writer, activist, and educator.

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Carl Braden

Carl Braden (June 24, 1914 – February 18, 1975) was a left-wing trade unionist, journalist, and social justice activist who was known for his work in civil rights.

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Carry Me Home (book)

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon & Schuster in 2001, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Casa Monica Hotel

The Casa Monica Hotel is a historic hotel located in St. Augustine, Florida, in the United States.

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Cause lawyer

A cause lawyer, also known as a public interest lawyer or social lawyer, is a lawyer dedicated to the usage of law for the promotion of social change to address a cause.

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Charles Hayes (politician)

Charles Arthur Hayes (February 17, 1918 – April 8, 1997) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois.

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Charles Kenzie Steele

Charles Kenzie Steele (born in McDowell County, West Virginia; died in Tallahassee, Florida) was a preacher and a civil rights activist.

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Charles McDew

Charles "Chuck" McDew (June 23, 1938 – April 3, 2018), African American Register.

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Charles Steele Jr.

Charles Steele Jr. (born August 3, 1946) is an American businessman, politician and civil rights leader.

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Charles W. Pickering

Charles Willis Pickering Sr. (born May 29, 1937) is a retired jurist who served as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and, briefly, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Charlotte Durante

Charlotte Gilmore Durante (aka Mama Charlotte) (born April 19, 1944, in Forkland, Alabama) was elected in 1978 the first African American woman City Commissioner in Delray Beach, Florida.

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Chicago Better Housing Association

The Chicago Better Housing Association (CBHA) is an open housing organization created in the 1950s to counter discrimination in the allocation of housing in the United States.

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Chicago Freedom Movement

The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby.

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Christian pacifism

Christian pacifism is the theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith.

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Christine King Farris

Willie Christine King Farris (née King; born September 11, 1927) is the eldest and only living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr. She taught at Spelman College and was the author of several books and a public speaker on various topics, including the King family, multicultural education, and teaching.

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Chuck Fager

Charles Eugene Fager (born 1942), known as Chuck Fager, is an American activist, an author, an editor, a publisher and an outspoken and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers.

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Cicero March

Cicero March is a 1966 short documentary film made by the Chicago-based production company, The Film Group.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.

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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 in popular culture

The 1954 to 1968 civil rights movement contributed strong cultural threads to American and international theater, song, film, television, and folk art.

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Clarence B. Jones

Clarence Benjamin Jones (born January 8, 1931) is the former personal counsel, advisor, draft speech writer and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. He is a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, and seat of the county.

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Clayborn Temple

Clayborn Temple, formerly Second Presbyterian Church, is a historic place in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Cleveland Sellers

Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born November 8, 1944) is an American educator and veteran civil rights activist.

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COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (Portmanteau derived from '''CO'''unter '''INTEL'''ligence PROgram) (1956-1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

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Colonel Stone Johnson

Colonel Stone Johnson (September 9, 1918 – January 19, 2012) was an African-American activist in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Colonial Williamsburg

Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of an historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.

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Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (United States)

The Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) was a Maoist political party in the United States.

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Congress of Racial Equality

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Council for United Civil Rights Leadership

Council for United Civil Rights Leadership (CUCRL) was an umbrella group formed in June 1963 to organize and regulate the Civil Rights Movement.

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Council of Federated Organizations

The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was a coalition of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations operating in Mississippi.

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Country Preacher

Country Preacher is a live album recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969.

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Criticism of Christianity

Criticism of Christianity has a long history stretching back to the initial formation of the religion during the Roman Empire.

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Criticism of religion

Criticism of religion is criticism of the ideas, the truth, or the practice of religion, including its political and social implications.

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Crusade for Citizenship

Crusade for Citizenship was the 1958 voter project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

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Curtis W. Harris

Curtis West Harris (July 1, 1924 – December 10, 2017) was an African-American minister, civil rights activist, and politician in Virginia.

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D'Urville Martin

D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor and director in both film and television.

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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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Dallas County Voters League

The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) was a local organization in Dallas County, Alabama, which contains the city of Selma, that sought to register black voters during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Dallas County, Alabama

Dallas County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Danville, Virginia

Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, located on the fall line of the Dan River.

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Dare Not Walk Alone

Dare Not Walk Alone is a 2006 documentary film directed by Jeremy Dean.

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David A. Clarke

David Allen "Dave" Clarke (October 13, 1943 – March 27, 1997) was a civil-rights worker, attorney, and Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. Elected as one of the original members of the Council of the District of Columbia when D.C. gained home rule in 1974, Clarke served as its chair from 1983 to 1991, and again from the death of John A. Wilson in 1993 until his own death in 1997.

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Deacons for Defense and Justice

The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964, during the civil rights era in the United States, in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana.

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Death of Kendrick Johnson

On January 11, 2013, Kendrick Johnson's body was discovered inside a rolled up wrestling mat in the gymnasium of Lowndes High School in Valdosta, in the U.S. state of Georgia, where he was a student.

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Deaths in 2018

The following notable deaths occurred in 2018.

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December 1967

The following events occurred in December 1967.

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Detroit Walk to Freedom

The Walk to Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on June 23, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Diane Nash

Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.

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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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Direct Action Everywhere

Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Dorchester Academy

Dorchester Academy was a school for African-Americans located at 8787 East Oglethorpe Highway, just outside Midway, Georgia.

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Dorothy Cotton

Dorothy Cotton (January 5, 1930 – June 10, 2018) was an American civil rights activist, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and a member of the inner-circle of one of its main organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

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Dorothy Tillman

Dorothy Tillman (born Dorothy Jean Wright; May 12, 1947) is an American former Chicago alderman in the 3rd Ward.

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Douglas E. Moore

Douglas E. Moore (born 1928) is a Methodist minister who organized the 1957 Royal Ice Cream Sit-in in Durham, North Carolina.

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E. E. Cleveland

Edward Earl Cleveland (March 11, 1921 – August 30, 2009) commonly known as E. E. Cleveland was an author, civil rights advocate and evangelist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Edenton, North Carolina

Edenton is a town on Albemarle Sound in Chowan County, North Carolina, United States.

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Edmund Pettus Bridge

The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama.

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Effie Neal Jones

Effie Neal Jones, (November 15, 1919 – April 30, 2002) was a civil rights activist, food services provider, and counselor for the Four County Head Start Program in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

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Elisabeth Omilami

Elisabeth Williams-Omilami (born February 18, 1951) is an American human rights activist and an actress.

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Ella Baker

Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist.

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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, often referred to as Mother Emanuel, is a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Emanuel Cleaver

Emanuel Cleaver II (born October 26, 1944) is a United Methodist pastor, American politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Emma Gresham

Emma Rene (Rhodes) Gresham (April 13, 1925 – March 2, 2018) was an American teacher and politician who was mayor of Keysville, Georgia.

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Evelyn G. Lowery

Evelyn Gibson Lowery (February 16, 1925 – September 26, 2013) was an American civil rights activist and leader.

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Eyes on the Prize

Eyes on the Prize is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer (Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement.

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Farris (surname)

Notable persons with the surname Farris include.

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FBI–King suicide letter

The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. The phrase "You Are Done" is a noted warning from the letter.

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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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Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech is a hip hop group consisting of MCs Eve and Jyant.

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Films about race

A great number of movies have been made about race relations, or with a strong racial theme over the last century, from D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Marvel Studios' Black Panther (2018).

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First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill

The First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill is a Baptist church in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Florida Legislative Investigation Committee

The Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (also known as the Johns Committee) was established by the Florida Legislature in 1956, during the era of the Second Red Scare and the Lavender Scare.

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Frank B. Livingstone

Frank B. Livingstone (December 8, 1928March 21, 2005) was an American biological anthropologist.

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Frank Minis Johnson

Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (October 30, 1918 – July 23, 1999) was a United States District Judge and United States Circuit Judge serving 1955 to 1999 on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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Fred Gray (attorney)

Fred David Gray (born December 14, 1930) is a civil rights attorney, preacher and activist who practices law in Alabama.

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Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP.

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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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Frederick D. Reese

Frederick Douglas Reese, or F. D. Reese (November 28, 1929 – April 5, 2018), was an American civil rights activist, educator and minister from Selma, Alabama.

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Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick

Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933–1986) was an African-American musician, civil rights activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana.

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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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Freedom Schools

Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South.

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.

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Garland Gray

Garland Gray (November 28, 1902 – July, 1977) (nicknamed "Peck" after Peck's Bad Boy) was a long-time Democratic member of the Virginia Senate representing Southside Virginia counties, including his native Sussex.

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Gary Thomas Rowe

Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. (August 13, 1933 - May 25, 1998), known in Witness Protection as Thomas Neil Moore, was a paid informant and agent provocateur for the FBI.

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Georgia Alliance of African American Attorneys

The Georgia Alliance of African American Attorneys (GAAAA) is a minority bar association in the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Gerald Marwell

Gerald Marwell (February 12, 1937 – March 24, 2013) was an American sociologist, social psychologist and behavioral economist.

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Gillfield Baptist Church (Petersburg, Virginia)

Gillfield Baptist Church is the second-oldest black Baptist congregation in Petersburg, Virginia and one of the oldest in the nation.

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Glenn E. Smiley

Glenn Smiley (April 19, 1910 – September 14, 1993) was a white civil rights consultant and leader.

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Gloria Blackwell

Gloria Blackwell, also known as Gloria Rackley (March 11, 1927 – December 7, 2010), was an African-American civil rights activist and educator.

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Golden Frinks

Golden Asro Frinks (August 15, 1920 – July 19, 2004) was an American civil rights activist and a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) field secretary who represented the New Bern, North Carolina SCLC chapter.

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Greensboro, Alabama

Greensboro is a city in Hale County, Alabama, United States.

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Greenwood, Mississippi

Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee.

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Grenada, Mississippi

Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States.

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Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama)

The Greyhound Bus Station at 210 South Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama, was the site of a violent attack on participants in the 1961 Freedom Ride during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Guy Carawan

Guy Hughes Carawan, Jr. (July 27, 1927 – May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist.

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Hall W. Thompson

Hall W. Thompson (May 28, 1923 – October 27, 2010) was an American businessman and golf course developer.

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Harvey Shapiro (poet)

Harvey Shapiro (January 27, 1924 – January 7, 2013) was an American poet and editor of The New York Times.

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Harvey Sweetland Lewis

Harvey Sweetland Lewis (born April 1976) is an American ultrarunner, social studies and economics teacher, world traveler and public speaker.

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Highlander Research and Education Center

The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee.

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History of Alabama

Alabama became a state of the United States of America on December 14, 1819.

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History of Christianity in the United States

Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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History of Georgia (U.S. state)

The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia.

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History of Memphis, Tennessee

The history of Memphis, Tennessee and its area began many thousands of years ago with succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples.

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History of Mississippi

The history of the state of Mississippi extends to thousands of years of indigenous peoples.

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History of Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery, Alabama, was incorporated in 1819, as a merger of two towns situated along the Alabama River.

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History of Petersburg, Virginia

The history of Petersburg, Virginia as a modern settlement begins in the 17th century when it was first settled.

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History of Protestantism in the United States

Christianity was introduced with the first European settlers beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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History of St. Augustine, Florida

The history of St.

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History of the Patriot Act

The history of the USA PATRIOT Act involved many parties who opposed and supported the legislation, which was proposed, enacted and signed into law 45 days after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

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History of the United States (1945–64)

For the United States of America, 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity.

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Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC), commonly called the Unification Church, was a spiritual organization founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon to unify Christianity around a broad and inclusive vision of a messianic mission.

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Home of the Brave (2004 film)

Home of the Brave is a 2004 documentary film about Viola Liuzzo, an American anti-racist activist during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

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Homewood, Alabama

Homewood is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.

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Hopewell, Virginia

Hopewell is an independent city surrounded by Prince George County and the Appomattox River in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Hosea Williams

Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 – November 16, 2000), was an American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician.

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Howard Cosell

Howard William Cosell (born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality.

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Hulond Humphries

Hulond Humphries (born 1939) is a part-time hog farmer and former principal at Randolph County High School who caused a national controversy in 1994 and 1995 after he threatened to cancel the high school's prom due to fears about interracial dating.

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Hunter Pitts O'Dell

Jack O'Dell (a.k.a. Hunter Pitts O'Dell), born August 11, 1923, is a prominent African-American member of the Civil Rights Movement.

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I Have a Dream

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

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International Civil Rights Walk of Fame

The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, which honors some of the activists involved in the Civil Rights Movement and others involved in civil rights activities, was created in 2004 and is located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.

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Iota Phi Theta

Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Incorporated (ΙΦΘ, or Iotas) is a nationally incorporated, historically African-American, collegiate fraternity.

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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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J. Quinn Brisben

John Quinn Brisben (September 6, 1934 – April 17, 2012) was an American teacher and political activist from Chicago, Illinois.

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Jack Minnis

Jack Minnis (died 2005) was an American activist, and the founder and director of opposition research for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the Civil Rights Movement era.

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Jackson Advocate

Jackson Advocate is an African-American weekly newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi, founded in 1938 by Percy Greene.

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James Bevel

James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was a minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

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James Compton

James Washington Compton (born April 7, 1939), also known as Jim Compton, is an American businessman and civil rights activist who served as president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League from 1978 until 2006.

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James Forman

James Forman (October 4, 1928 – January 10, 2005) was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement.

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James Groppi

Father James Edmund Groppi (November 16, 1930 – November 4, 1985) was a Roman Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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James Lawson (activist)

James Morris Lawson, Jr. (born September 22, 1928) is an American activist and university professor.

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James Orange

James Edward Orange, MLK March website biography.

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James Reeb

James Reeb (January 1, 1927 – March 11, 1965) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister, pastor and activist during the Civil rights movement in Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts.

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James Zwerg

James Zwerg (born November 28, 1939) is an American former minister who was involved with the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s.

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Jean Childs Young

Jean Childs Young (July 1, 1933—September 16, 1994) was an educator and advocate for equal access to education in the United States.

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Jerry Harkness

Jerald B. "Jerry" Harkness (born May 7, 1940) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Jesse B. Blayton

Jesse B. Blayton (-1977) was a radio entrepreneur, civil rights activist, professor, accountant, and businessman.

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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician.

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Jesse N. Stone

Jesse Nealand Stone, Jr. (June 17, 1924 – May 14, 2001), was an African-American attorney and educator from Shreveport, Louisiana, who broke past color barriers in state government.

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Jim Clark (sheriff)

James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922 – June 4, 2007), AP via MSNBC, June 6, 2007 was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, from 1955 to 1966.

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Jimmy Radcliffe

James Radcliffe (November 18, 1936 – July 27, 1973) was an American soul singer, composer, arranger, conductor and record producer.

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Jo Freeman

Jo Freeman (born August 26, 1945) is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney.

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Joanne Bland

Joanne Bland (born July 29 in Selma, Alabama) is the co-founder and former director of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama.

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Joe R. Hicks

Joe R. Hicks (July 1941 – August 28, 2016) was an African-American political commentator and community activist.

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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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John Segar Gravatt

John Segar Gravatt (February 26, 1909 – December 9, 1983) was a Virginia lawyer and trial judge.

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Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.

Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. (May 13, 1920 – January 30, 2000) was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA and was a radio Disc Jockey and actor.

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Joseph H. Jackson

Joseph Harrison Jackson (1900Reverend J.H. Jackson Papers (Chicago History Museum) "Biographical Sketch of J.H. Jackson, President of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.," circa 1980, box 3/folder 6. http://bmrcprocessingproject.uchicago.edu/finding_aids – August 1990) was an American pastor and the longest serving President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was highly controversial in many black churches, where the minister preached spiritual salvation rather than political activism.

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Joseph Lowery

Joseph Echols Lowery (born October 6, 1921) is an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Julian Bond

Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer.

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July 1964

The following events occurred in July 1964.

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June 1964

The following events occurred in June 1964.

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Kelly Ingram Park

Kelly Ingram Park, formerly West Park, is a four-acre (16,000 m²) park located in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Kelo v. City of New London

Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005),.

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Kerry Kennedy

Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American human rights activist and writer.

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Kudzu (comic strip)

Kudzu was a daily comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette about rural Southerners.

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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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Leon Sullivan

Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 – April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist.

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" – often referred to as the "Black/African-American National Anthem" – is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) in 1900 and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1905.

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Lincolnville Historic District

The Lincolnville Historic District is an area of the city of St. Augustine, Florida established by freedmen following the American Civil War and located on the southwest peninsula of the "nation's oldest city." It was designated as an historic district in 1991 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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List of allegations of misuse of the Internal Revenue Service

This is a partial list of allegations of misuse of the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which traces its roots to the creation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1862.

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List of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers

The list of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students.

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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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List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign non-political endorsements, 2016

This is a list of notable non-political figures and organizations who publicly indicated support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.

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List of Kappa Alpha Psi brothers

The following is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (commonly referred to as Kappas or Nupes).

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List of Methodist churches in the United States

This is a list of Methodist churches in the United States.

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List of museums in Georgia (U.S. state)

This list of museums in Georgia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumni

This list of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T), a public, coeducational, high research activity, land-grant university, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

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List of people from Montgomery, Alabama

The city of Montgomery, the capital and second-largest city of Alabama, has been the birthplace and home of these notable individuals.

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List of photographers of the civil rights movement

Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.

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List of rallies and protest marches in Washington, D.C.

The following is a list of rallies and protest marches in Washington, D.C., which shows the variety of expression of notable political views.

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List of topics related to the African diaspora

This is a list of topics related to the African diaspora.

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Logan family (historical)

The Logan family are African Americans descended from Warren Logan and his wife Adella Hunt Logan.

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Lola Hendricks

Lola Mae Haynes Hendricks (née Haynes) (born December 1932) was corresponding secretary for Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights from 1956 to 1963.

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Louis Austin

Louis Austin (1898-1971) was an African American journalist, leader and social activist.

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Louis Lomax

Louis Emanuel Lomax (August 16, 1922 – July 30, 1970) was an African-American journalist and author.

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Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame

The Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame recognizes women natives or residents of the U.S. state of Louisiana for their significant achievements or statewide contributions.

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Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame

The Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in located in Winnfield, Winn Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer.

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Malachi Thompson

Malachi Richard Thompson (August 21, 1949, Princeton, Kentucky — July 16, 2006), was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player.

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Malcolm Boyd

Malcolm Boyd (June 8, 1923 – February 27, 2015) was an American Episcopal priest and author.

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Mandy Carter

Mandy Carter is an American black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activist.

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Marc Schneier

Marc Schneier (born January 26, 1959) is an American rabbi, and founder and president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and the founding rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York and the New York Synagogue (now defunct) in Manhattan.

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March 18

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March 1965

The following events occurred in March 1965.

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March 1968

The following events occurred in March 1968.

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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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Margaret Sloan-Hunter

Margaret Sloan-Hunter (May 31, 1947 – September 23, 2004) was a Black feminist, lesbian, civil rights advocate, and one of the early editors of ''Ms.'' magazine.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children.

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Marion Bethel

Marion Bethel (born 31 July 1953) is an attorney, poet, essayist, filmmaker, human and gender rights activist, and writer from Nassau, The Bahamas.

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Marion, Alabama

Marion is a city in, and the county seat of, Perry County, Alabama, United States.

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Mark Ridley-Thomas

Mark Ridley-Thomas (born November 6, 1954) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 2nd District.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director.

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Martin Luther King III

Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957) is an American human rights advocate and community activist.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Martin Luther King Jr. authorship issues

Authorship issues concerning Martin Luther King Jr. fall into two general categories: King's academic research papers (including his doctoral dissertation) and his use of borrowed phrases in speeches.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

The Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act

The Martin Luther King Jr.

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Mary Turner

Mary Turner (c. 1885 – 19 May 1918) was a young, married black woman and mother of two who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having protested the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day before in Brooks County.

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Master list of Nixon's political opponents

A master list of Nixon political opponents was compiled to supplement the original Nixon's Enemies List of 20 key people considered opponents of President Richard Nixon.

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Mathew Ahmann

Mathew H. Ahmann (September 10, 1931 – December 31, 2001) was an American Catholic layman and civil rights activist.

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May 1963

The following events occurred in May 1963.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

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McDonogh 35 High School

McDonogh 35 College Preparatory High School, historically McDonogh No.

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Memphis sanitation strike

The Memphis sanitation strike began in February 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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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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Merchantville, New Jersey

Merchantville is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

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Michael DeMond Davis

Michael DeMond Davis (January 1939 – November 13, 2003) was a Pulitzer prize-nominated journalist and a pioneer in African-American journalism, opening the doors for many African-American writers.

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Mike Ward (American politician)

Michael Delavan "Mike" Ward (born January 7, 1951) is a former congressman of the United States House of Representatives, a Democrat from Kentucky.

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Millions More Movement

The Millions More Movement was launched by a broad coalition of African American leaders to mark the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March.

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Milton Grafman

Milton Louis Grafman (April 21, 1907 – May 28, 1995) was an American rabbi who led Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1941 until his retirement in 1975 and then served as Rabbi Emeritus from 1975 until his death in 1995.

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Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil-rights activist.

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Mississippi Freedom Project

The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an archive of oral histories collected by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida.

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Mississippi Highway Patrol

The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol is the highway patrol and acting state police agency for the U.S. state of Mississippi, and has law enforcement jurisdiction over the majority of the state.

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Montgomery bus boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

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Montgomery Improvement Association

The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of "two or more races".

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Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson

Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama and a deacon in the Baptist church.

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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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Nashville sit-ins

The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (or simply National Baptist Convention) is the largest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the United States.

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National Black Justice Coalition

The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is American civil rights organization serving primarily lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

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National Indian Youth Council

The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) is the second oldest American Indian organization in the United States with a membership of more than 15,000.

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

The Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was a coalition of antiwar activists formed in 1967 to organize large demonstrations in opposition to the Vietnam War.

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National Youth Movement

National Youth Movement was established in 1971, by Reverend Al Sharpton at the age of 16 years.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Occupation (protest)

As an act of protest, occupation is a strategy often used by social movements and other forms of collective social action in order to take and hold public and symbolic spaces, buildings, critical infrastructure such as entrances to train stations, shopping centers, university buildings, squares, and parks.

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October 1963

The following events occurred in October 1963.

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October 5

No description.

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Operation Breadbasket

Operation Breadbasket was an organization dedicated to improving the economic conditions of black communities across the United States of America.

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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1964 against the escalating role of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War and grew into a broad social movement over the ensuing several years.

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Oretha Castle Haley

Oretha Castle Haley (July 22, 1939 – October 10, 1987) was an American civil rights activist in New Orleans.

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Otis Moss III

Otis Moss III (born 1971) is the pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.

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Otis Moss Jr.

Otis Moss Jr. (born February 26, 1935) is an American pastor, theologian, speaker, author, and activist.

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Paine College

Paine College is a private, coeducational historically black liberal arts college located in Augusta, Georgia, United States.

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Paul Boateng

Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng (born 14 June 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first mixed-race Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

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Peace churches

Peace churches are Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism or Biblical nonresistance.

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Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Phi Beta Sigma

Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is a social/service collegiate and professional fraternity founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students with nine other Howard students as charter members.

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Phyllis M. Ryan

Phyllis Milgroom Ryan (July 2, 1927 - May 5, 1998) was a civil rights activist from Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Politics of the Southern United States

The politics of the Southern United States generally refers to the political landscape of the Southeastern/South Central United States.

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Poor People's Campaign

ca The Poor People's Campaign, or Poor People's March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States.

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Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival

Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival is an American anti-poverty campaign led by William Barber II and Liz Theoharis.

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Prathia Hall

Prathia Hall (January 1, 1940 – August 12, 2002) was a leader and activist in the Civil Rights Movement, a womanist theologian, and ethicist.

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Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights Movement, and the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Give Us the Ballot" speech.

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Presidency of John F. Kennedy

The presidency of John F. Kennedy began on January 20, 1961, when Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, and ended on November 22, 1963, upon his assassination and death, a span of days.

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Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

The presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson began on November 22, 1963, when Johnson became the 36th President of the United States upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.

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Racial equality

Racial equality occurs when institutions give equal opportunity to people of all races.

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Radical flank effect

The radical flank effect refers to the positive or negative effects that radical activists for a cause have on more moderate activists for the same cause.

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Rainbow/PUSH

Rainbow/PUSH is a non-profit organization formed as a merger of two non-profit organizations founded by Jesse Jackson — Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition.

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Ralph Abernathy

Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights activist and Christian minister.

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Randal Gaines

Randal Leroy Gaines (born November 1955) is a lawyer from LaPlace in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, who is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 57.

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Randolph Blackwell

Randolph T. Blackwell (born March 10, 1927 in Greensboro, North Carolina, died May 21, 1981) was a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, serving in Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, amongst other organizations.

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Raylawni Branch

Raylawni Branch (born 1941, Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, United States) is a black Mississippi pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, a professional nursing educator and US Air Force Reserve officer.

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Realizing the Dream

Realizing the Dream, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Martin Luther King III to carry on the legacy of his parents, Dr.

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Reform, Alabama

Reform is a city in Pickens County, Alabama, United States.

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Religion in Black America

Religion in Black America refers to the religious and spiritual practices of African Americans.

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Report to the American People on Civil Rights

The Report to the American People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963 in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Resource mobilization

Resource mobilization is the process of getting resources from resource provider, using different mechanisms, to implement an organization's pre-determined goals.

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Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is a labor union in the United States that is a semi-autonomous division of the United Food and Commercial Workers.

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Reverse racism

Reverse racism or reverse discrimination is a concept that portrays affirmative action in the United States and similar color-conscious programs as a form of anti-white racism on the part of black people and government agencies; it is commonly associated with conservative opposition to such programs.

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Revolutionary Action Movement

Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) was a U.S.-based revolutionary black nationalist group in operation from 1962 to 1969.

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Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention

The Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (RPCC) was a conference organized by the Black Panther Party (BPP) that was held in Philadelphia from September 4–7, 1970.

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Richie Jean Jackson

Richie Jean Jackson, also known as Jean Jackson and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson (August 30, 1932– November 10, 2013), was an American author, teacher, and civil rights activist.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.

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Robert Ford (politician)

Robert Ford (born December 26, 1948) is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate since 1993, representing District 42, which is located in Charleston.

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Robert Hayling

Robert Bagner Hayling (November 20, 1929 – December 20, 2015) was an American dentist and civil rights activist.

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Robert Russa Moton

Robert Russa Moton (August 26, 1867 – May 31, 1940) was an African-American educator and author.

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Royal Ice Cream sit-in

The Royal Ice Cream sit-in was a nonviolent protest in Durham, North Carolina, that led to a court case on the legality of segregated facilities.

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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist.

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Samuel Woodrow Williams

Samuel Woodrow Williams was an African American Baptist minister, professor of philosophy and religion, and Civil Rights activist.

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SCLC

SCLC may refer to.

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SCOPE Project

The Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was a voter registration civil rights initiative conducted from 1965-66 in 120 counties in six southern states.

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Scott Bullock

Scott G. Bullock is an American lawyer who focuses on property rights issues such as eminent domain and civil forfeiture.

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Scripto

Scripto is an American company that was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1923 by Monie A. Ferst.

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Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles)

Second Baptist Church is a historically African-American Baptist church located in South Los Angeles, California.

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Selma (film)

Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb.

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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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Selma, Alabama

Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west.

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Seminex

Seminex is the widely used abbreviation for Concordia Seminary in Exile (later Christ Seminary-Seminex) that existed from 1974 to 1987 after a schism in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).

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September 1966

The following events occurred in September 1966.

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Septima Poinsette Clark

Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898 – December 15, 1987) was an American educator and civil rights activist.

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Sexual revolution in 1960s United States

The 1960s in the United States are often perceived today as a period of profound societal change, one in which a great many politically minded individuals, who on the whole were young and educated, sought to influence the status quo.

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Seymour M. Miller

Seymour M. (Mike) Miller, Ph.D., is an economic-political sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University.

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Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946) is an American conservative author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Sheyann Webb

Sheyann Webb-Christburg is known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book, Selma, Lord, Selma.

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Shoal Creek Club

Shoal Creek G&CC |lat.

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Shooting of Anthony Hill

The shooting of Anthony Hill, a black U.S. Air Force veteran, occurred on March 9, 2015, in Chamblee, Georgia, near Atlanta.

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Social Democrats, USA

Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA) is an American association of social democrats founded in 1972.

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Socialism and LGBT rights

The connection between left-leaning ideologies and LGBT rights struggles has a long and mixed history.

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Spelman College

Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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St. Augustine movement

The St.

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St. Augustine, Florida

St.

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St. Petersburg sanitation strike of 1968

The St.

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Stacy Head

Stacy Aline Singleton Head (born June 30, 1969) is an American lawyer and former president of the New Orleans City Council.

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Stanley Levison

Stanley David Levison (May 2, 1912 – September 12, 1979) was an American businessman and lawyer who became a lifelong activist in progressive causes.

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Stanley Tolliver

Stanley Eugene Tolliver, Sr. (October 29, 1925 – January 3, 2011) was an African American attorney, school board president, civil rights activist, and radio talk show host.

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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael, June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-born prominent organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement.

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Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park near Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.

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Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명 Mun Seon-myeong; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support of social and political causes.

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T. J. Jemison

Theodore Judson Jemison (August 1, 1918 – November 15, 2013), better known as T. J. Jemison, was the president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994.

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Ted Gold

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The Begatting of the President

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The Butler

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The Grove Plantation

The Grove, known officially as the Call/Collins House at The Grove, is an antebellum plantation house located in Tallahassee Leon County, Florida.

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The Heart of a Woman

The Heart of a Woman (1981) is an autobiography by American writer Maya Angelou.

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The Promised Land (New York Undercover)

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The Rice Thresher

The Rice Thresher is the weekly student newspaper of Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies

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Theodore Parker

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Timeline of 1960s counterculture

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Timeline of African and diasporic LGBT history

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Timeline of African-American history

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Timeline of Atlanta

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Timeline of the civil rights movement

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Timeline of the Unification Church

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Timeline of United States history

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Tony Watson

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Triumph Church

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Unification Church and mainstream Christianity

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Unification Church of the United States

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Unitarian Universalism

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United Klans of America

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United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2012

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United States v. Sun Myung Moon

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University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign

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Vaughn Lowery

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Video the Vote

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Vincent Harding

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Viola Liuzzo

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Voter Education Project

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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WAEC

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Walter E. Fauntroy

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We Insist!

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WERD (historic radio station)

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WERE

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Who Speaks for the Negro?

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Will Campbell (Baptist minister)

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Willa Beatrice Player

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William Bradford Huie

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William Julius Wilson

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William Moyer

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Willie Barrow

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WKRK-FM

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Women's History Sites (National Park Service)

The National Park System preserves and interprets the history of women in American society.

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World Peace Council prizes

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Wyatt Tee Walker

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Xernona Clayton

Xernona Clayton Brady (born August 30, 1930 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive.

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Yolanda King

Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an American activist and first-born child of civil rights leaders Rev.

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16th Street Baptist Church bombing

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.

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1960s

The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1960, and ended on 31 December 1969.

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1963

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1963 in the United States

Events from the year 1963 in the United States.

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1965

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1965 in the United States

Events from the year 1965 in the United States.

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1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity

Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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1968 Miami riot

A group of black organizations in Miami called for “a mass rally of concerned Black people,” to take place on August 7, 1968, at the Vote Power building in Liberty City, a black neighborhood.

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1968 Washington, D.C. riots

The Washington, D.C. riots of 1968 were 4 days of riots in Washington, D.C. that followed the assassination of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference

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