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8 Cards in this Set
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
believed in non-violent methods of gaining civil rights for African-Americans |
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Jackie Robinson |
1st professional African-American baseball player |
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Medgar Evans |
Black civil rights worker in Mississippi, tried to get blacks registered to vote |
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Booker T. Washington |
tried to help blacks improve economically by getting good education. |
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James Meredith |
African-American who enrolled in the University of Mississippi in 1962. Had to be protected by federal marshals. Later killed during a voter registration march |
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Malcolm X |
favored violence as a way to achieve black equal rights |
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Rosa Parks |
seamstress who refused to give up my seat to a white man on the bus |
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Thurgood Marshall |
African American Supreme Court Chief Justice earlier was the lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Ed case |
