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Civil Rights
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22
History
11th Grade
05/10/2010

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Levi Pearson
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Was told Clarendon didn't have money for a bus
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Harry Briggs, Sr.
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The first name on the Clarendon equalization petition
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Charles Hamilton Houston
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Dean of Howard law who started fighting for educational equality in public schools in the 1930's
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Harry Briggs, Jr.
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SC student who signed equalization petition
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Joseph Armstrong DeLaine
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SC minister who convinced Summerton blacks to leave their names on the petition regardless of the reercussions
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Barbara Johns
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Virginia student who organized assembly, motivated class officers to fight for better schools
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L. Francis Griffin
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Farmville pastor who encouraged perseverance
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer who argued the Clarendon County case in the Supreme Court
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William Robinson
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Trail-blazer who voluntarily integrated at age 12
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J. Waties Waring
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SC Judge who encouraged NAACP to fight against separate but equal and seek integration in public schools
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Fred Vinson
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Chief Justice who died before Brown decision
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Earl Warren
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Chief Justice who persuaded others to desegregate
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John W. Davis
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Former presidential candidate, top trial lawyer in US
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Kenneth Clark
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Devised baby-doll test to show segregation damage
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Brumit B. Delaine
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Showed class replica of a solid gold congressional medal-of-honor given posthumously to Clarendon heroes
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Emmett Louis Till
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black teenager killed in Mississippi for allegedly talking to a white woman
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Mamie Till Mobley
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Mother of Emmett Till
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Moses and Elizabeth Wright
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Emmett Till's uncle and aunt
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Rob Bryant
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Grocery store owner, wife of white lady, kidnapped Emmett Till
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J.W. Milam
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Helped Rob Bryant kidnap Emmett Till
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Carolyn Bryant
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Woman Emmett Till yelled at
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Clarence Strider
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Sheriff of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, tried to bury Emmett Till's body the night it was found
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