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Civil Rights
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Sep 15
September
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 23
September
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
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
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
Mississippi
Oct 18
October
Maryland
Nov 7
November
Washington D.C.
Nov 23
November
Mississippi
Nov 26
November
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
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