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Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state field secretary for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army. United. He was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, MS. He worked to reverse segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, including the enforcement of voting rights. the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers challenged the segregation of the state-funded Mississippi Public University and applied to enter law school there. He also worked for voting rights, economic opportunities, access to public facilities, and other changes in segregated society. Evers received the 1963 NAACP Spingarn Medal. He was assassinated for political reasons on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, MS.

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John Robert Lewis was an American politician, statesman, and civil rights activist and leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's fifth congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was chair of the Coordinating Committee from students. Non-violent from 1963 to 1966. Born February 21, 1940, Alabama. While in the House, Lewis was one of the leaders of the Democratic Party, serving since 1991 as Deputy Chief Whip and since 2003 as Deputy Chief Whip. John Lewis received many honorary titles and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.
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Side panels. As a student, Lewis became an activist in the civil rights movement. He hosted sit-ins at separate lunch counters in Nashville and participated in many other civil rights activities as part of the Nashville Student Movement. He died on July 17, 2020 in Atlanta, GA.

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Ross Robert Barnett was Governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a prominent member of the Dixiecrats, Southern Democrats who supported racial segregation. He was born on January 22, 1898 in Stanting Pine, MS. He served in the United States Army during World War I, then worked a variety of jobs while earning a BA from Mississippi College in Clinton in 1922. To save money, he worked as a school janitor, barber, band organizer , and door-to-door vendor of Wearever aluminum products. His first legal case was, while he was still at Ole Miss, over a replacement case involving a cow, which he won and for which he received a fee of $ 2.50; His first real case as a lawyer was that of representing a black woman who was suing her ex-husband for the value of a side chair, losing this case in court of law but winning in county court, winning himself $ 7.50. He died on November 6, 1987 in Jackson, MS.

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement." Parks worked as a seamstress at a local department store and was secretary to the Montgomery Chapter of the NAACP(The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). She recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a center in Tennessee to train activists for workers' rights and racial equality. Although she was widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job and received death threats for years. She died on October 24, 2005 in Detroit, ML.

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James Howard Meredith was the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi. He is also a figure in the American civil rights movement, writer, political adviser, and Air Force veteran. He was born in June 1933 in Kosciusko, MS. In 1966, Meredith planned a 220-mile solo Fear March from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi; Highlight the continued racism in the South and encourage voter registration after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Leaders of major organizations pledged to complete the march on his behalf and take him to the hospital. As Meredith recovered, more people from across the country became involved as protesters. When Meredith and other leaders entered Jackson on June 26, they were leading approximately 15,000 protesters, in what was the largest civil rights march in Mississippi. During the march, more than 4,000 African Americans registered to vote, and it was a catalyst for continued community organizing and additional registration.

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