Biographies

Emmett Till (1941-1955)

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On Aug. 27, 1955, Emmett was beaten and shot to death by two white men who threw the boy's mutilated body into the Tallahatchie River near Money, Mississippi.
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The Black American Civil Rights Movement Multimedia Digital Library

Biographies

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Explore the lives of the individuals who influenced the Black American Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005 )

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Rosa Parks played a significant role in starting the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycotts.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)

Medgar Evers (1925-1963)

James Howard Meredith (1933- )

James H. Meredith is best known as the first African-American student of the University of Mississippi.
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Malcolm X (1925-1965)

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Malcolm X is buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

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John F. Kennedy took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights.
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