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14 Black women who proved they were the real architects of the Civil Rights Movement
As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...
Appellate Division, First Department Preserves the Legacy of Hon. Constance Baker Motley
A significant figure in the Civil Rights movement and a historic federal judge, Constance Baker Motley remains largely ...
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Honoring Heroes: The Women of the Civil Rights Movement
Leaders, pastors and community members gathered to honor heroes of the Civil Rights Movement in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in collaboration with Sacred Heart Cathedral and the Martin ...
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Activists Share Status of Civil Rights Movement
Activist Angela Davis was the guest speaker at an event hosted nationally by SURJ, Showing Up for Racial Justice, which is an ...
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San Diego Jewish Women make Pilgrimage to the Deep South learning about the Civil Rights Movement just days before MLK Day
SAN DIEGO — A group of about 15 women from the Jewish Federation ... It was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Morris and the Early Civil Rights Movement
Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s ... and was a full-throated advocate of equal voting rights for women. A little over a year after Morris’s 1847 ...
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‘The movement is you all’: Spokane NAACP president draws parallels between civil rights activists, students of today
Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement ... tends to be more students of color, first-generation students and ...