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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist, Minister / 1929 - 1968
Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Civil Rights Activist / 1818 - 1895
Frederick Douglass, a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank.
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Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
Civil Rights Activist / 1913 - 2005
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.
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Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist / 1925 - 1965
African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s.
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Medgar Evers
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Medgar Evers
Civil Rights Activist / 1925 - 1963
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. -
Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Garvey
Civil Rights Activist / 1887 - 1940
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement.
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