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AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN CHANGE THE WORLD - Google ...  All of the women profiled in this exhibit have been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Sojourner Truth (c.1797-1883) was a powerful antislavery...
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Meet The Women of The National Women's Hall of Fame - Apgar.Net  She was also the first woman to travel across Greenland on skis, and in 1993 ... to help educate young Black women with only $1.50 and turned it into a college. ..... is known as "the mother of the Civil Rights Movement,N because she refused...
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Parks, Rosa - National Women's Hall of Fame  Parks, known as the mother of the civil rights movement, walked into history on December 1, 1955 when she refused ... Parks was arrested for her defiance, and she agreed to challenge the segregation order in court. ... Year Honored: 1993.
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Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement | IIP Digital  Dec 29, 2008 ... Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ... While she did not know her act would set in motion a 381-day bus boycott, she knew one thing. ... Parks was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. She...
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SHOWCASING GREAT WOMEN - Google Arts & Culture  A powerful antislavery speaker, she is best remembered for her 1851 Ain't I a Woman speech given at ... Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, 1981. ... Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, 1993. ... In 1955, mother of the civil rights movement Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was arrested for refusing to...
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Articles about Myrlie Evers Williams - philly-archives  May 16, 1995 | By Allie Shah, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT ... Myrlie Evers-Williams, the new chairwoman of the NAACP, vowed yesterday to launch a new activist era ... Choosing the widow of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers as its newest leader brings instant credibility to .... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his swearing-in.
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Highlights | National Organization for Women  1967 At its second national conference, NOW adopts passage of the Equal Rights .... 1982 On Women's Equality Day, NOW's PACs launch a $3 million .... 1992 NOW's 3rd March for Women's Lives sets a record for the largest civil rights .... Operation Rescue (now called Operation Save America) attempts to mount a July...
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Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement | Barbara Ransby | Cory ...  Martha Biondi took time away from her own book-writing to read and comment ... Aldon Morris introduced me to Ella Baker in his civil rights seminar fteen years ago ...... with the growing Black Freedom Movement, and they crossed paths briey. ...... on horseback on the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma in March 1965.
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Coretta Scott King - Wikipedia  Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1953 until his death in 1968. Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. .... Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King, Jr. were married on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of...
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Key Speakers Bureau - CPCU Society  A former practicing lawyer, Ward is now an inspiring author, a success ... Latina PhD in the National Speakers Association and one of the few women of Hispanic .... The New York Times calls Linda Chavez "an influential voice on civil rights policy ... amputating her feet, Gail Devers won a gold medal in the 100 meter dash at...
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Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies - The New ...  May 17, 2007 ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her father's message of racial equality and ... Yolanda King wrote and produced plays; gave speeches to groups that ... civil rights march, and in 1996 appeared in Ghosts of Mississippi, about ... with Atallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, the slain civil rights leader,...
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Barbara Jordan - Wikipedia  Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936  January 17, 1996) was a lawyer, educator, an American politician, and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate ... She was again a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 1992.
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<http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid ...  From Civil War to Civil Rights: Sellling Alabama as Heritage Tourism. ... Birmingham, whose blast furnaces had long identified the city as the symbol of the ..... the local white supremacist group and turned it into the National Voting Rights Museum in 1992. .... Footsteps to Freedom tour that takes African American tourists to...
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Congresswoman Brown: In Memory of Coretta Scott King ...  Feb 3, 2006 ... The great Coretta Scott King, perhaps best known as being the wife of the ... People's Campaign at the Lincoln Memorial on June 19th, 1968, just two ... race, wherein she called upon American women to 'unite and form a solid block of women power to fight the three great evils of racism, poverty, and war.
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Ride, Sally - National Women's Hall of Fame  Six women, among them Sally Ride, were selected for a group of 35 new ... Instead, she enrolled at Stanford University, graduating in 1973 with degrees in...
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Meet The Women of The National Women's Hall of Fame - Apgar.Net  Her organization - now 36 million strong - helps with health insurance, career ... CLARA BARTON (1821-1912) Barton ministered to injured soldiers during the Civil War and ..... ROSA PARKS (1913 - ) is known as "the mother of the Civil Rights...
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The Civil Rights Movement And The Second Reconstruction, 1945 ...  Her act of civil disobedience galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement. ... panel became the killing ground for a long parade of civil rights proposals. .... in early September 1957, was the first major civil rights measure passed since 1875. .... elected to Congress from redrawn majority-black districts in which white incumbents...
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Rosa Parks - Black History - HISTORY.com  On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL and sparked the American Civil Rights movement of the 20th century.
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Selma5 - Apgar.Net  Virginia Apgar, M.D. Inducted Into National Women's Hall of Fame ... was inducted on October 14, 1995 into the NationaI Women's Hall of Fame in ... Dr. Apgar was the first Director of the Division of Anesthesiology at Columbia ... Secretary of Labor and now President of the American Red Cross; and singer Ella Fitzgerald (b.
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Coretta Scott King - Wikipedia  Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin ... King has been referred to as "First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement." ... as a tomboy during her childhood, primarily because she could climb trees and .... After Coretta did not respond to his questioning of their romance being...
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Coretta Scott King - Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist ...  Jan 15, 2015 ... Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and the wife of 1960s civil rights ... the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where she would meet her future husband, famed civil rights ... On April 4, 1968, while standing on a balcony outside of the Lorraine Motel in...