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the american civil rights movement
2012
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11th Grade
04/24/2012

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Emmit Till
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(1941-1955) was african american boy who was murdered at the age of 14 after reportably flirting with a white girl
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Rosa Parks
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African Americam activist, refused to give up her seat for a white passenger
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Martin Luther King
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prominent leader in the african american civil rights movement
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Malcolm X
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African American Muslim minister and human rights activist
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Dwight Eisenhower
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was the 34th president of the united states from 1953-1961. ws a 5 star general during world war 2
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Thurgood Marshall
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was an associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, servinng 1967-1991. he was lawyer in the case (victory) in Brown vs. Board of Education
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Lydon Johnson
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36th president
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Earl Warren
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was an american jurist and politician, jurist during case of Brown vs. Board of Education
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Linda Brown
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an African American 3 grader. This is how Brown vs. Board vs. education got startedin 1951
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Ernest Green
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once of the Little Rick Nine, a group pf african americans students who in 1957 were the first black students ever to attend Little Rock Central High School
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