Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized demonstrations and boycotts of discriminating companies‚ and whose untimely murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the American legacy of equality. He worked to investigate crimes against African Americans like the Emmett Till murder‚ making him a high-profile citizen in his state. As Medgar Evers was graduating college in the early 1950s‚ battles for civil rights were being fought valiantly. Several attempts were made
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Angelou got her name from her brother‚ Bailey‚ who called her "Mya sister" and her first husband‚ Tosh Angelo. She was born on the fourth in April of 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Mo. Maya Angelou is a poet‚ historian‚ author‚ actress‚ play-write‚ civil rights activist‚ a publisher‚ director‚ a mother‚ and a survivor. She is one of the most influential African Americans in American history. When her parents divorced she was sent to Stamps‚ Arkansas to live with her grandmother‚ Annie Henderson. Marguerite and Bailey
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Stokely Carmichael:Civil Rights Stokely Carmichael was a Civil Rights Activist that worked along side Fannie Lou Hamer‚ Martin Luther King‚ ect. On June 29‚ 1941‚ in Port of Spain‚ Trinidad and Tobago‚ Stokely Carmichael was born. After his diagnosis of prostate cancer in 1996‚ Benefit concerts were held in Denver‚ New York‚ Atlanta‚ and Washington D.C. to help pay for his medical expenses. The government of Trinidad and Tobago where he was born awarded him a $1‚000 grant a month to help cover
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As a human rights advocate‚ a stateswoman‚ and the First Lady of the United States‚ Eleanor Roosevelt became one of the most respected‚ and cherished woman of her lifetime. Mrs. Roosevelt was born in New York City‚ New York‚ and in her teens was educated in the United Kingdom. She married her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1905‚ and out of six children only 5 survived. When President Roosevelt was a senator in Albany‚ and Secretary of the Navy‚ Mrs. Roosevelt gained her political experience
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Andrew Young is an politician‚ diplomat‚ and activist. Andrew Young was born on March 12‚ 1932 in New Orleans‚ Louisiana. Andrew Young was part of a middle class family growing up. His father was a dentist and his mother was a teacher. When he was a child he had travel away from his neighborhood to attend a segregated school. When he finished high school he attended Howard University. After he finished school at Howard University he chose to study at Connecticut’s Hartford Theological Seminary. In
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Alice Walker is a dedicated activist and she stands for causes that she has experienced directly. In turn‚ those experiences and personal situations have impacted her writing topics and style. In her writings‚ past and current‚ the conflicts that she writes about are a direct reflection of her life. Alice Walker grew up in the south‚ in poverty and during a period of time that saw the ‘legal’ end of racism but the spirit of racism continued to live on. The struggle to overcome the obstacles she grew
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students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation. Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations. Rosa parks is a civil right activist and she isn’t going to give her seat to a white person on a segregated Montgomery on a Alabama bus. She joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP she is the chapter secretary. Rosa worked closely with chapter president. Sensed she refused to give
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A. Philip Randolph was a trailblazing leader‚ organizer and social activist who championed equitable labor rights for African-American communities during the 20th century. A. Philip Randolph was born Asa Philip Randolph on April 15‚ 1889‚ in Crescent City‚ Florida. He was the second son of James Randolph‚ a Methodist minister‚ and his wife‚ Elizabeth‚ both of whom were staunch supporters of equal rights for African Americans and general human rights. In 1891‚ the Randolph family moved to Jacksonville
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Eleanor Roosevelt: An Activist for Powerful Causes Eleanor Roosevelt once said‚ "In the long run‚ we shape our lives‚ and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." Roosevelt lived this phrase vividly in her own life‚ as she actively worked for major causes until the day she died. Working constantly to further the women’s movement and foreign relations‚ along with sharing information via the media to the public‚ Eleanor
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Ida B. Wells was an early proponent of civil rights and was a prominent journalist and activist in the 1890s. Born a slave in Mississippi in the era of the civil war and at the age of sixteen she became the head of her household when both of her parents passed away do to the yellow fever epidemic. To support her five other siblings Wells started to teach in rural Mississippi. Shortly after‚ Wells became an editor of a newspaper and used it as means of addressing injustices against African Americans
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