Some articles on rights, civil rights, civil rights activist, rights activist, activists, activist:
... See also History of human rights The specific enumeration of rights has differed greatly in different periods of history ... In many cases, the system of rights promulgated by one group has come into sharp and bitter conflict with that of other groups ... In the political sphere, a place in which rights have historically been an important issue, at present the question of who has what legal rights is sometimes addressed by the ...
... Joyce Barrett Honorary SNCC worker One of the few white northerners to join the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s Daisy Bates Honorary Advisor to the Little Rock Nine to integrate Little Rock ... of Negro Women founder of the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls civil rights activist founder of Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona ... to the Pennsylvania Bar Mary Church Terrell Honorary Writer, Civil Rights and Women's Rights activist First president of the National Association of ...
... Davis Lawyer, Publisher, Civil rights activist Roger Gregory Upsilon Nu Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Nathan Hare Phi Psi The first coordinator of a black studies program Founding ... Virgin Islands Benjamin Hooks Chi Psi Executive Director of NAACP,Civil Rights Activist, Minister Jesse Jackson, Jr ... Pi Psi Founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,Civil Rights Activist, Democratic Presidential Nominee, Minister Hank Johnson Kappa Alpha Alpha Representative from ...
... Bush marched with Rev ... Jesse Jackson during the inaugural sit-in demonstrations in Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 9 ...
... for a separate listing of more than 50 activists Bella Abzug (LL.M. 1947), social rights activist and a leader of the women's rights movement Anna Baltzer, public speaker and Jewish-American pro-Palestinian activist Mark Barnes (LL.M. 1941), civil rights activist, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund general counsel, in which capacity he argued Brown v ...
Famous quotes containing the words civil rights activist, civil rights, activist, civil and/or rights:
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance ... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 10 (1962)
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)
“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women’s rights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)