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Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights, activist. He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US. Thurgood Marshall was the Court's first-ever African American justice.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organization is a main overall organization they used to stop all of the segregation in voting, schools, work. It was to also to make sure African amricans get their rights.
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Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement. He was a minister and supporter of Black nationalism. He told, and told his followers/fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against the white aggression. After Malcolm X was assassinated his book inspired many to rise with Black Power.
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Martin Luther King jr was a baptist minister, and a social activist. He led the civil rights movement in the US. He ran it from around 1950s till he was assassinated in 1968.
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James Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and Air Force, veteran. When then in 1962 he became, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi. he went there after the intervention of the federal government. By-Grace -
John Lewis was an American Politician and a civil rights activist who was in the US House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. By-Grace -
Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the Black nationalism “Black Power.” He tried to help with African American Voters. His goals and what he wanted to do became very succsessfull. By-Grace -
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was created in 1942 by black and white americans, who were students. They ae in Chicago and helped put the group together to help push towards the civil rights movemnet to go thorugh/pass. The impact with the CORE movement helped with the segregation, and the rights african americans wanted.
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Rosa Parks in 1955, helped make an impact on the civil rights movement in the US. This happened when she protested to give up her seat to a white man on the "Montgomery Alabama Bus". This then led to the bus boycott. The bus boycott went on that it lasted 381 days. It had the outcome in "The Supreme Court ruling segregation" on the public buses.
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Emmett Till was a 14 yr old African American who was abused and tortured. This all was due to the fact that a white lady had reported him for offending her in her own family's grocery store. This all led to people who were not doing anything about racism, to help it and it raised awareness. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-impact-emmett-tills-murder/#:~:text=Emmett%20Till's%20murder%20was%20a,sidelines%20directly%20into%20the%20fight. By-Grace -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is apart of the civil rights movement. It was a big part of the bus boycott organization. It was sucsessful and lasted 381 days. The article stated their goal was to protest groups in the south. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/southern-christian-leadership-conference-sclc By-Grace -
Little Rock Nine made an impact when it became a integral part of the equal opportunity in American education. According to the article, it "inspired many african americans to stand up for themselves". Little Rock Nine's goal was to stop the "grouping/segregation" of kids by their color and race, in schools.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was found in 1960. It was a main thing in the civil rights movement. It's goals were to make nonviolence, and to stop racism and segregation. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee-sncc/#:~:text=SNCC%20sought%20to%20coordinate%20youth,as%20the%20Mississippi%20Freedom%20Summer. By-Grace -
Ruby Bridges impact was big. She was the first African american kid not be in segregation school when she was only 6 years old. Her impact on the american civil rights movement in the South. People had said that Ruby "Reformed education" with instead of it being all segregation. It had stated that she had two marshals walk infront and behind her at the new school.
https://www.nps.gov/people/rubybridges.htm#:~:text=Ruby%20Nell%20Bridges%20Hall%20is,action%20in%20the%20American%20South.
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Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by a white supremacist on June 12, 1963. By-Grace -
Robert George Seale was born on October 22, 1936. He is an American political activist and author. In 1966, he helped co-find the Black Panther Party with a guy who was also an activist, named Huey P. Newton. By-Grace -
The black panthers group was very helpful to the African Americans. They provided many rescources during the rough times for the poors. They helped with ambulance service, free shoes, and even education. They also gave out many more rescouces. Their group goal was to help with Black power. By-Grace