African.a History Rights, Human Rights, Religion

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as they later came to be called, were the first Black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1957 these remarkable African American students challenged segregation in the deep South and won.

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The Little Rock Nine

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helped desegregate schools, military and the state capital while he served as a Harlem Congressman and Civil Rights Activist

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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led over 300 slaves to freedom and was the conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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In 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott when she decided not to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus

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Rosa Parks

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founded the National Council of Negro Women

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Mary Mcleod Bethune

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was a lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which made segregation in public schools illegal. He later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice in American History

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Thurgood Marshall

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On Feb. 1, 1960, the ______, freshmen at North Carolina A & T State University, held the first sit-ins at the Woolsworths in Greensboro, N.C. to protest the stores segregation policies. They inspired similar sit-ins across the state and by the end of February, such protests were taking place across the South

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Greensboro Four

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became the first Blqack student to successfully enroll qt the University of Mississippi. Mississippians rioted in response causing President Kennedy to send 5,000 troops to restore the peace.

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James Meredith

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is currently Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1960 he founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Julian Bond