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• Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.
black Americans. Detractors
accused him of preaching
racism, black supremacy,
anti-Semitism, and violence.
He has been called one of
the greatest and most
African Americans
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• Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 –
February 21, 1965), born
Malcolm Little and also
known as El-Hajj Malik El-
Shabazz was an African
American Muslim minister
and human rights activist. To
in history
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• Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an AfricanAmerican civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement".
• Biographer David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." 2
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Key events
Now ,I want to introduce some key events in the movement to you . Brown v. Board of Education Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Sit-ins Freedom Rides
African-American Civil Rights Movement
The African-American Civil Rights Movement :
The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring voting rights in Southern states.
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Prominent figures
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an intellectual leader in the United States as a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.
his admirers he was a
courageous advocate for the
rights of African Americans,
a man who indicted white
America in the harshest
terms for its crimes against