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Civil Rights.
The March, The Meeting, The Movement
From the abolition of chattel slavery to Selma to Stonewall to today, this is the long, unbroken procession of those who refused to be quiet. Their courage was procedural and physical, in law offices and on bridges, in bus seats and in ballot booths — and it is why the American story kept moving.
The Figures
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Aunt Polly Jackson
c.1810–?
Civil Rights
Bastian Karpata
c.1755–1795
Civil Rights
Claudia Jones
1915–1964
Civil Rights
Coretta Scott King
1927–2006
Civil Rights
Daisy Bates
1914–1999
Civil Rights
Diane Nash
1938–
Civil Rights
Dorothy Height
1912–2010
Civil Rights
Ella Baker
1903–1986
Civil Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer
1917–1977
Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass
1818–1895
Civil Rights
Georgia Gilmore
1920–1990
Civil Rights
Gloria Richardson
1922–2021
Civil Rights
Harriet Tubman
c.1822–1913
Civil Rights
La Mulâtresse Solitude
c.1772–1802
Civil Rights
Louis Mercier
c.1760–1795
Civil Rights
Malcolm X
1925–1965
Civil Rights
Marcus Garvey
1887–1940
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Civil Rights
Muhammad Ali
1942–2016
Civil Rights
Pedro Pablo Medardo de Marchena
1899–1968
Civil Rights
Pedro Wacao
c.1760–1795
Civil Rights
Prathia Hall
1940–2002
Civil Rights
Queen Nanny
c.1686–c.1755
Civil Rights
Rosa Parks
1913–2005
Civil Rights
Shirley Chisholm
1924–2005
Civil Rights
Sojourner Truth
c.1797–1883
Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall
1908–1993
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