Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
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Rosa Parks is known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. She was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskeegee, Alabama. In 1955, Rosa instigated the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger as required by city law. Although secretary of the [...]
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Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
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Paul Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the youngest son of a minister who had been a slave. Robeson felt the pain of racial prejudice early in life while playing football at Rutgers College. The hatred did not stop him from becoming an All-American football star, a [...]
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NAACP
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by a group of black and white citizens committed to social justice. It is the nation’s largest and strongest civil rights organization. NAACP founders include Ida Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. DuBois.
Tags: Civil Rights, Organizations