PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Rosa Parks
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thurgood Marshsall
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Earl Warren
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Detailed explanation-1: -LDF Founder and President and Director-Counsel, 1940-1961. Who Was Thurgood Marshall? Thurgood Marshall was an influential leader of the civil rights movement whose tremendous legacy lives on in the pursuit of racial justice. Marshall founded LDF in 1940 and served as its first Director-Counsel.
Detailed explanation-2: -Soon after, Marshall joined Houston at NAACP as a staff lawyer. In 1940, he was named chief of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which was created to mount a legal assault against segregation. Marshall became one of the nation’s leading attorneys.
Detailed explanation-3: -The NAACP’s founding members included white progressives Mary White Ovington, Henry Moskowitz, William English Walling and Oswald Garrison Villard, along with such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimke and Mary Church Terrell.