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Hector P. Garica
Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. -
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Super court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under -
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Brown v. board of education
Acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century. -
Rosa Parks
By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit. -
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orval Faubus
National symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment. -
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Lester Maddox
Georgians who remained unwilling to relinquish segregation. Riding a wave of reaction to the Civil Rights Ac. -
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Betty Friedan
Writer, feminist and women's rights activist Betty Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein. -
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Cesar Chavez
Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 -
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Thurgood Marshall
Marshall attended Baltimore's Colored High and Training School (later renamed Frederick Douglass High School. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement. -
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Stokely Carmichael
American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement. -
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George Wallace
He four-time governor of Alabama and four-time candidate for president of the United States.