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Born June 25, 1933 (age 93) • Mississippi
Role In American civil rights movement

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James Meredith
James Meredith, wearing a suit, walks toward a building entrance at the University of Mississippi, flanked by federal marshals and officials, with onlookers behind them.
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Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
American lawyer, activist, and military officer
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Daisy Bates
American journalist and civil rights activist
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
American musician and historian
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights advocate
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams
American civil rights leader and politician
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges
American civil rights activist
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
American comedian and civil rights activist
Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
Fannie Lou Hamer
American civil rights activist
Powell, 1967
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
American legislator
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James Luther Bevel
American minister and political activist
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Anne Moody
American civil rights activist
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Al Raby
American civil rights activist
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights activist and religious leader
Confident, compassionate, controversial
Jesse Jackson
American civil rights leader
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, and activist
James Lawson
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
Rosa Parks sitting on a bus
Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and social reformer

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