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Born 1901 • Mississippi
Died August 22, 1980 (aged 79) • Little Rock • Arkansas
Notable Family Members spouse Daisy Bates
Role In American civil rights movement
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Daisy Bates
American civil rights leader
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley
American lawyer and jurist
Walter White, 1942
Walter White
American civil-rights activist
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
American clergyman
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American religious leader and civil-rights activist
Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth
American minister and civil rights activist
John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights advocate
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
American civil-rights activist
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
American comedian and civil rights activist
Ella Baker
Ella Baker
American activist
Powell, 1967
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
American legislator
Bond, Julian
Julian Bond
American politician and civil rights leader
Vernon Jordan
American lawyer and administrator
James Luther Bevel
American minister and political activist
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams
American civil rights activist
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins
American human-rights activist
William Monroe Trotter
American journalist and civil rights activist
James Lawson
James Lawson
American activist and educator
Rosa Parks sitting on a bus
Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist

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