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#BlackHistory⛓️
#DrMaryMcLeodBethune
#Educator #Philanthropist/Humanitarian #CivilRightsActivist.
Founder:
#Bethune-CookmanUniversity
#NationalCouncilOfNegroWomen
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
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W.E.B. Du Bois
#botd February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963
#US #sociologist #historian #civilrightsactivist #feminist #author #editor
“A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.”
#quote
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistory
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On 21 February 1933: #NinaSimone, American jazz pianist, #singer, songwriter, arranger, and #civilrightsactivist (“Mississippi Goddam”; “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black”, “Feeling Good”; “Wild Is The Wind”), born in Tryon, North Carolina (d. 2003).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 💔😢😭
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RIP Reverend Jesse Jackson. #ripreverendjessejackson #jessejackson #civilrights #civilrightsactivist
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Rev Jesse Jackson with his friend Rev. C.T. Vivian, a key lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rev. Vivian was honored as a distinguished guest at the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march in 2015.
Interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson on the media riser on March 7, 2015 at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL.
CNN journalist Fredricka Whitfield interviews Rev Jesse Jackson at the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 2015.
I'm sorry to hear this news of Rev #JesseJackson passing. A few images I captured of him at the 50th Anniversary of #BloodySunday in #Selma AL. Image of Jackson with C.T. Vivian, also #CNN #FredrickaWhitfield interviewing Jesse Jackson
#civilrights #photography #civilrightsactivist #avareaves
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 6.
Warrior poet #AudreLorde was a Black lesbian, and #CivilRightsActivist who dedicated her life to opposing all forms of injustice & oppression.
#GambaAdisa, which means "Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Known."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuEo...
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Born to enslaved parents in Orange, Virginia, Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) pioneered advocacy for Black women’s rights. Burroughs lived in Louisville from 1898 to 1909 before opening the National Training School for Women in Washington.
#BlackWomensHistory #CivilRightsActivist #WomenEducators
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DEAR JACKIE @cinemapolitica.bsky.social
A cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in Major League Baseball and a civil rights activist.
▶️ docuseek2.com/cp-jackie
🎥 #Docuseek #BlackHistoryMonth2026 #CinemaPolitica #baseball #civilrightsactivist #watchnow
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#SeyedMohammed (Kian) Hosseini (b.1983) was executed by the Iranian regime on the sunrise of January 7th, 2023.
#MartialArts #CivilRightsActivist #murder
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"…hold on to…dreams.
…sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right
even if you have to stand alone."
"…the only way to win is with
education, self-esteem,…value in yourself."
Claudette Colvin
1939-2026
#CivilRightsActivist #MontgomeryBusBoycott #BrowderVersusGayle
tinyurl.com/yn2ya3ru
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For 111 years, a statue of #Confederate #KKK Gen. #RobertELee has represented #Virginia in #TheUSCapitol. Today, in the Capitol's #EmancipationHall a statue of teenaged #CivilRightsActivist #BarbaraRoseJohns took his place - a pointed #replacement for #TheGeneral who #FoughtForSlavery & #colonialism
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#struggleforequality #civilrightsactivist #motivation #malcolmx youtube.com/shorts/eCavy... via @YouTube
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Never forget America’s history and what was endured to achieve a semblance of equality! SURROUNDED: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832 by Wilfrid Lupano & Stéphane Fert #prudencecrandall #civilrightshistory #civilrightsactivist #civilrights #civilrightsmovement
tinyurl.com/3kwapxj2
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Happy Birthday to Fannie Lou Hamer!
#twoMSmuseums #twomississippimuseums #museumofMShistory #MScivilrightsmum #BH365 #history #fyp #fannielouhamer #votingrights #civilrightsactivist #freedomsummer #MFDP #COFO #OTD #museums #visitjxn #visitms
youtu.be/agBzy3ATja0?...
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“When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”
~ Fannie Lou Hamer, born this day in 1917
Photo taken in Mississippi in 1971 by Louis Draper
#fannielouhamer #LouisDraper #liberate #womensrights #activist #leadership #leadershipmatters #civilrights #civilrightsmovement #civilrightsactivist
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youtu.be/1tMWt4H3FYU
AOTR Podcast Episode 7 ~ Alligator Alcatraz
Episode seven discussion with Kindra Sowder, Beverly L. Anderson and me.
#FourthofJuly #civilrightsactivist #humanrights #USConstitution #AlligatorAlcatraz
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More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society.
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#civilrightsactivist #NationalNews #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay in 1871, #JamesWeldonJohnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, lyricist ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), #civilrightsactivist, and leader of the NAACP, born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1938).
#RIP 🥀🕯️
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#OnThisDay in 2023, #JimBrown, American College-Pro Football HOF running back (Syracuse University; Cleveland Browns - NFL Rookie of the Year 1957; NFL MVP 1957, 58, 65; 8 x First-team All-Pro; 9 x Pro Bowl), actor (The Dirty Dozen; ...tick...tick...tick...), and #civilrightsactivist, died at 87.
#R
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#OnThisDay in 2003, #NinaSimone, American jazz pianist, #singer, songwriter, arranger, and #civilrightsactivist (“Mississippi Goddam”; “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black”, “Feeling Good”; “Wild Is The Wind”), died of #breastcancer at 70. 🎗
#RIP
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Josephine Baker
Real Name: Freda Josephine McDonald
Birth: 3 Jun 1906
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
#Death: 12 Apr 1975 (aged 68)
Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France
www.findagrave.com/memorial/678...
#OTD #JosephineBaker #singer #dancer #actress #CivilRightsActivist
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Happy Birthday Memorial Maya Angelou! One of the greatest poet, author, playwright, civil rights activist, and amazing, brave, resilient human being to ever exist. 🖤✊🏿
{4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014}
#mayaangelou #birthdaymemorial #civilrightsactivist #poet #author #playwright #hero
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”We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
#mayaangelou #botd
April 4, 1928 -
May 28, 2014
#american #poet #writer #memoirist
#civilrightsactivist
#quote
#motivation #resist
#overcome #triumph
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"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity." - Ruby Dee
#actress #screenwriter #poet #playwright #civilrightsactivist
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As well as being a Civil Rights Icon and martyr, Medgar Evers was a decorated World War II Veteran. #MedgarEvers #Civilrightsactivist #WWII #Arlingtoncemetary
www.nola.com/news/medgar-...
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Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992)
#AmericanWriter #Professor #Philosopher #IntersectionalFeminist #Poet #CivilRightsActivist #SelfDescribedBlackLesbian #Feminist #Socialist
#BlackHistory365
#EachOneTeachOne
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