7th Grade: 1960s People and Names
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Thurgood Marshall was the first Black man appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress and the first Black woman to run for president in 1972.
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Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman who was the mother of many of president Thomas Jefferson’s children.
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Ruby Bridges was a civil rights activist who was one of the first Black children to attend a desegregated school in the South.
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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who was arrested for refusing to ride in the segregated section of a bus.
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Nina Simone was a classically trained pianist and civil rights activist.
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Martin Luther King Jr was a civil rights activist who led the March on Washington in 1963.
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Lyndon B Johnson was the president who signed into law the Civil Rights Act which outlawed segregation in 1964.
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Jesse Jackson was a civil rights activist and one of the first Black men to run for president of the United States in 1984.
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James Baldwin wrote novels, essays, and poems during the civil rights movement.
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The Freedom Singers were activists who sang “We Shall Overcome” during the civil rights movement.
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The Freedom Riders were activists who challenged racial segregation by refusing to sit in segregated sections of buses and restaurants.