Civil rights

People working for civil rights.

People in Civil rights

7 profiles

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Rosa Parks

Defying bus segregation and helping spark the Montgomery boycott.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Leading nonviolent campaigns for US civil rights.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Using mass nonviolent resistance in India’s independence struggle.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

Writing The Souls of Black Folk and co-founding the NAACP.

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Malcolm X

Advocating Black self-determination and challenging racism in America.

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Helen Keller

Becoming a deafblind author and an international advocate for disabled people.

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Jane Addams

Co-founding Hull House and pioneering community-based social reform.