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Stokely Carmichael was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on June 29th, 1941 and died on November 15th, 1998. He was a West-Indian born civil rights activist, leader of black nationalism in the United States in the 1960s. He also originated the famous phrase "black power". He enrolled in Howard University in 1960 where he then joined the SNCC and the Nonviolent Action Group. In 1961 he was one of several Freedom Riders who traveled through the south to challenge segregation.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stokely-Carmichael

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Thurgood Marshall was born July 2nd 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland and died January 24, 1993. He was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1976-1991. He was the U.S. Supreme Court's first African American member. He graduated with honors from Lincoln University and becme an attorney. As an attorney, he argued for the case of Brown V. Board of Education.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thurgood-Marshall

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Medgar Evers was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi and was born July 2nd, 1925, and was assassinated on June 12th, 1963. He was the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. He organized voter-registration efforts and economic boycotts, and investigated crimes perpetrated against black people. He was initially an insurance salesman but soon after became involved in the RCNL.

https://www.biography.com/activist/medgar-evers

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Brown V Board of Education was a landmark 1954 supreme court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It was one of the cornerstones of the Civil Rights movement. It helped establish the precedent of "separate-but-equal". In the early 1950s, the NAACP was working hard to challenge segregation laws in public schools. Eventually a plaintiff named Oliver Brown filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Lewis-American-civil-rights-leader-and-politician

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John Lewis was an American civil rights leader and politician born February 21st, 1940 near Troy Alabama and died July 17th 2020. He was best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He was also known for leading the march that was halted by police violence and later became known as "Bloody Sunday". Lewis was raised going to segregated schools and was encouraged by his parents to be compliant with the Jim Crow laws of the South. However, during his teen years he was inspired by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. He also had the desire to help desegregate Troy State College.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Lewis-American-civil-rights-leader-and-politician