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Born March 17, 1912 • West Chester • Pennsylvania
Died August 24, 1987 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013)
Role In American civil rights movement • March on Washington

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March on Washington organizers Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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James Lawson
American minister and civil rights activist
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth stands in a suit outside the heavily damaged remains of his house after a bombing, with collapsed roof and debris behind him, Montgomery, Alabama.
Fred Shuttlesworth
American minister and civil rights activist
Diane Nash
Diane Nash
American civil rights activist
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
American civil rights activist
Confident, compassionate, controversial
Jesse Jackson
American civil rights leader
John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
Hooks, 1991
Benjamin L. Hooks
American jurist, minister, and government official
James Farmer
James Farmer
American civil rights activist
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights advocate
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams
American civil rights leader and politician
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph
American trade unionist and civil rights leader
Ella Baker
Ella Baker
American activist
Whitney Young
Whitney Young
American civil rights leader
Andrew Young
Andrew Young
American politician, civil rights leader, and clergyman
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James Luther Bevel
American minister and political activist
Ralph David Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy
American pastor and civil rights leader
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins
American civil rights leader
Rosa Parks sitting on a bus
Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist
Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist

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