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Ella Baker
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee provides information on a civil rights activist, Ella Baker (1903-198 ), and her accomplishments.
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American Public Media: Radio Fights Jim Crow
A report on early radio programs that were used by the federal government and civil rights activists to ease racial tensions during World War II.
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American Public Media: Radio Fights Jim Crow
A report on early radio programs that were used by the federal government and civil rights activists to ease racial tensions during World War II.
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Loc: Inaugural Pilgrim Finds Her History
87 year old civil rights activist, Isaac Lowe, came from her small California town to Washington, D.C. to witness the inauguration of the President Barack Obama in 2009. Her story is featured in this article.
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Photograph:rosa Parks Sitting on a Bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.
Provides information on Rosa Parks, a "black American civil rights activist" who refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man.
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Portrait Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A newspaper photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., taken during a 1964 press conference.