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Also Known As Rubye Doris Smith
Born April 25, 1942 • Atlanta • Georgia
Died October 9, 1967 (aged 25) • Atlanta • Georgia
Role In American civil rights movement • Freedom Rides • sit-in movement
Diane Nash
Diane Nash
American civil rights 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
John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
Ella Baker
Ella Baker
American activist
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
West-Indian-born civil rights activist
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
American musician and historian
Bond, Julian
Julian Bond
American politician and civil rights leader
Hooks, 1991
Benjamin L. Hooks
American jurist, minister, and government official
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James Luther Bevel
American minister and political activist
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Anne Moody
American civil rights activist
James Farmer
James Farmer
American civil rights activist
Barry, Marion
Marion Barry
American civil rights activist and politician
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights activist and religious leader
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Confident, compassionate, controversial
Jesse Jackson
American civil rights leader
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, and activist
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
American lawyer, activist, and military officer
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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