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Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I.
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Super court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under
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Acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century.
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By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress.
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The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit.
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National symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment.
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Georgians who remained unwilling to relinquish segregation. Riding a wave of reaction to the Civil Rights Ac.
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Writer, feminist and women's rights activist Betty Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein.
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Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962
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Marshall attended Baltimore's Colored High and Training School (later renamed Frederick Douglass High School.
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Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement.
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American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement.
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He four-time governor of Alabama and four-time candidate for president of the United States.