Albert Raby - Death and Recognition

Death and Recognition

Raby collapsed and died from a heart attack on November 23, 1988.

In 2004 a Chicago Public High School named after Al Raby was opened. Located in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Al Raby High School for Community and Environment focuses on social justice issues as well as geographical information systems.

African-American Civil Rights Movement

Topics and events (timeline)	1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Albany Movement Birmingham campaign Browder v. Gayle Brown v. Board of Education Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church Chicago Open Housing Movement Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1968 Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Emmett Till Freedom Riders Mississippi Freedom Summer Garner v. Louisiana Greensboro sit-ins Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama) Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections Little Rock Nine Loving v. Virginia March on Washington Mississippi civil rights workers murders Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Montgomery Bus Boycott Nashville sit-ins Poor People's Campaign Selma Voting Rights Movement Twenty-fourth Amendment Voting Rights Act of 1965

Activists	Ralph Abernathy Victoria Gray Adams Ella Baker James Bevel Claude Black Unita Blackwell Julian Bond Joseph E. Boone William Holmes Borders Stokely Carmichael J.L. Chestnut Shirley Chisholm Septima Clark Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Annie Devine Patricia Stephens Due Medgar Evers Chuck Fager James Farmer James Forman Marie Foster Dick Gregory Lawrence Guyot Prathia Hall Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Lola Hendricks Aaron Henry Myles Horton T. R. M. Howard Jesse Jackson Jimmie Lee Jackson T. J. Jemison Vernon Johns Frank Johnson Matthew Jones Clyde Kennard A. D. King Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King, Jr. Bernard Lafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Malcolm X Thurgood Marshall Ralph McGill James Meredith Amzie Moore Irene Morgan Bob Moses Bill Moyer Diane Nash E. D. Nixon James Orange James Peck Rosa Parks Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Al Raby A. Philip Randolph Cordell Reagon Amelia Boynton Robinson Jo Ann Robinson Bayard Rustin Charles Sherrod Fred Shuttlesworth Modjeska Monteith Simkins Kelly Miller Smith Charles Kenzie Steele Dorothy Tillman C. T. Vivian Wyatt Tee Walker Roy Wilkins Hosea Williams John Minor Wisdom Andrew Young Whitney Young

Activist groups	Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Highlander Folk School Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Montgomery Improvement Association National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) NAACP Youth Council Northern Student Movement National Council of Negro Women National Urban League Operation Breadbasket Regional Council of Negro Leadership Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Women's Political Council

Historians	Taylor Branch Clayborne Carson Michael Eric Dyson Chuck Fager Adam Fairclough David Garrow David Halberstam Diane McWhorter

Persondata
Name	Raby, Albery
Alternative names
Short description	American activist
Date of birth	1933
Place of birth
Date of death	November 23, 1988
Place of death

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