Ch. 21 Civil RightsABThurgood MarshallAfrican-American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregationBrown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutionalRosa ParksWoman who helped start Montgomery bus boycott20 more rows
The 51-year-old Crump has been at the center of virtually every racial firestorm in the last eight years. He is the nation's most famous civil rights attorney — you've probably seen him even if you don't know his name.
Civil rights activists, known for their fight against social injustice and their lasting impact on the lives of all oppressed people, include Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X.
The Klu Klux Klan The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both blacks and whites who were seeking to enfranchise the African American population.
1. Macon Bolling Allen (1816-1894) Considered to be both the first African American attorney to practice law in the United States and to hold a judicial position, Macon Bolling Allen broke numerous barriers.
Martin Luther King was an especially prominent black activist who received numerous honors and is now commemorated by a national holiday....NameArea of activismNotes and referencesAlberta Odell JonesCivil rights movementAttorneyQuincy JonesCivil RightsMarsha P. JohnsonCivil rights1 more row
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967, at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California. Widely recognized as the most prominent figure of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.
When he saw that fifteen civil rights leaders had been chosen to plan the March, he chose himself and five others to be the main planners: A. Philip Randolph, Whitney Young, James Farmer, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and himself. They were called the Big Six.
Philip Randolph was a labor leader and civil rights activist who founded the nation's first major Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) in 1925. In the 1930s, his organizing efforts helped end both racial discrimination in defense industries and segregation in the U.S. armed forces.
ListNameBornCountryW.E.B. Du Bois1868United StatesKasturba Gandhi1869IndiaMahatma Gandhi1869IndiaSardar Vallabhbhai Patel1875India85 more rows
Martin Luther King, Jr. He was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which aims to achieve racial equality peacefully. He went down in history as a hero and one of the most influential leaders in the world.
The organization quickly moved to the forefront of the civil rights movement alongside several other major civil rights groups collectively known as the "Big Five:" the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League (NUL), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( ...