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Civil rights people

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Harry T. Moore Titusville
James Earl Ray Shot Martin Luther King
Booker T. Washington Prominent African American educator who a believed in gradual racial equality, and who headed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now Tuskegee University in Alabama
Malcolm X African American leader who was born Malcom Little, went to jail for burglary at 20, became a Muslim minister; said whites were the cause of the black condition and that blacks should separate from white society. Went to Mecca and changed his mind.
W.E.B. DuBois First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard; believed in immediate racial equality; founded the Niagara Movement which insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education. Niagara became the NAACP.
Marcus Garvey An immigrant from Jamaica who believed that African Americans should build a separate society; black pride; founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA); encouraged followers to go back to Africa and help; convicted of mail fraud and jailed.
Martin Luther King Pastor of a Baptist church elected to lead the bus boycott. He was for nonviolent resistance. Founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). I have a Dream speech. Shot April 4, 1968.
Rosa Parks A seamstress and an NAACP officer who stayed seated on the bus when told to move for a white man to sit down. She was arrested.
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