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Black women and men march holding signs demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias during the 1963 March on Washington.
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Black and white image of the Greensboro Sit-In, in which young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter.
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Key People

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights activist and religious leader
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
president of United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
president of United States
14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhist monk
Bobi Wine
Bobi Wine
Ugandan politician, performer, and activist
Moon Jae-In
Moon Jae-In
president of South Korea
Viola Desmond
Viola Desmond
Canadian businesswoman and civil libertarian
Sonam Wangchuk smailes as he poses for a photograph during the 40th Anniversary of Rolex Awards for Enterprise at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer and activist
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
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Mildred Loving
American civil rights activist
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Jack Patten
Australian Aboriginal leader
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Barbara Johns
American civil rights activist
Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier
American Indian activist
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
American singer-songwriter
Confident, compassionate, controversial
Jesse Jackson
American civil rights leader
South African politician Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance, 2007
Helen Zille
South African journalist, activist, and politician
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

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