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Sep 15
September
Civil Rights
Baptist
4 Little Girls
Ku Klux Klan bombing of 4 little girls in Birmingham, Alabama - Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14).
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Sep 15
September
Author
Civil Rights
Anne Moody
Mississippi
Sep 19
September
Educator
Civil Rights
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany
Educator, Author
Virginia
Sep 21
September
Activist
Civil Rights
Frances Mary Albrier
Activist
New York
Sep 23
September
Suffrage
Journalism
Educator
Civil Rights
Mary Church Terrell
"A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex."
Tennessee
Sep 25
September
Civil Rights
The Little Rock 9
Vetted and recruited by Daisy Bates, President of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP, nine students were selected to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957 (September 4, 1957-September 25, 1957).
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Oct 4
October
Government
Civil Rights
C. Delores Tucker
“I am here to put the nation on notice that violence perpetuated against women in the music industry in the forms of gangster rap and misogynist lyrics will not be tolerated any longer.” Tucker (1927-2005), dubbed “the most hated woman in hip hop” …
Pennsylvania
Oct 6
October
Activist
Civil Rights
Fannie Lou Hamer
"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired".
Mississippi
Oct 15
October
Activist
Civil Rights
Black Panther Party
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Oct 18
October
Civil Rights
Author
Educator
Mary Gibson Hundley
Educator, Writer, and Civil Rights Activist
Maryland
Oct 20
October
Civil Rights
Jean Fairfax
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Oct 23
October
Military
Civil Rights
Edna Griffin
Katz Drug Store
Kentucky
Oct 25
October
Civil Rights
Irene McCoy Gaines
Civil Rights and Social Worker
Florida
Oct 27
October
Actress
Civil Rights
Ruby Dee
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Nov 7
November
Civil Rights
Ruby Hurley
Hurley (1909-1980), known as the "Queen of Civil Rights".
Washington D.C.
Nov 11
November
Civil Rights
Author
Composer
Activist
AME
Shirley Graham Du Bois
Indiana
Nov 11
November
Journalism
Civil Rights
Daisy Bates
Arkansas
Nov 20
November
Civil Rights
Law
Pauli Murray
Coined the term “Jane Crow”.
Maryland
Nov 23
November
Civil Rights
Educator
Mamie Till Mobley
Civil rights Activist and mother of Emmitt Till.
Mississippi
Nov 26
November
Government
Civil Rights
Educator
Activist
Sybil Haydel Morial
Morial (1932-2024) was a staunch voting and civil rights activist, the wife of the first Black Mayor of New Orleans, Ernest "Dutch" Morial, and mother of Marc Morial, the second Black Mayor of New Orleans.
Louisiana
Dec 5
December
Civil Rights
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956
Alabama
Dec 13
December
Civil Rights
Ella Baker
Civil Rights Activist
Virginia
Dec 15
December
Anthropology
Chemistry
Civil Rights
Actress
Author
Eslanda Goode Robeson
Eslanda "Essie" Robeson was a phenom!
Washington D.C.
Dec 23
December
Actress
Civil Rights
Fredricka "Fredi" Washington
Georgia
Dec 31
December
Civil Rights
Recy Taylor
Alabama
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