Final Exam People #8: Civil Rights Movement

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For Prof. Garmon's AMST 100 Final. People from the Civil Rights Movement.

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Thurgood Marshall

worked for NAACP, lead attorney on Brown v. Board of Education, and first African American Supreme Court justice.

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Harry Byrd

VA governor during the Great Depression, became VA’s longest-running member of the Senate (nearly 4 decades between 1930s and 60s). Gave a speech in which he coined the phrase “massive resistance” and advocated against desegregation.

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Rosa Parks (1955)

refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.

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George Wallace

radical governor of Alabama from 1963-1967 who ran on a platform of segregation. He is the only person mentioned in MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

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Bull Connor

Birmingham, Alabama Chief of Police who was known for reacting extremely violently to peaceful protesters.