Rosa Parks: Icon of the US civil rights movement
The event was seen as a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement, as protests followed the killers' acquittal in court ...
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People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1
Hamer's mother fashioned a black doll for her ... In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the civil rights movement north with a campaign dubbed the Chicago Freedom Movement. It aimed to raise ...
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Gloria Campbell remembered as the 'mother of the civil rights movement' in Danville
Gloria Campbell, who died Thursday at 94, was an icon of the local Civil Rights Movement, along with her husband, Bishop Lawrence Campbell Sr. They both led civil rights protests in Danville at the ...
Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
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Gloria Campbell, hailed as matriarch of Danville’s civil rights movement, dies
Her death was announced by Bibleway Cathedral, a church she co-founded with her late husband, Bishop Lawrence Campbell Sr.