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States move to tighten voting rules after Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act Related Links Landmark Supreme Court Cases Civil Rights Timeline Eric Holder Supreme…Saad Eddin Ibrahim, 2001 News
sociologist and human rights activist, was convicted in May of defaming Egypt, accepting money from the European Union without authorization, and embezzlement. He was sentenced to seven…Nydia Velázquez Biography
Nydia VelázquezU.S. RepresentativeBorn: 3/28/1953Birthplace: Yabucoa, Puerto Rico In 1992 Nydia Velázquez became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress (Democrat, New York).…Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers is the Black civil rights activist who was murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. A World War II veteran and a graduate of Alcorn College, Evers began working in 1952 for the…Meredith, James Biography
Meredith, James civil-rights leader, authorBorn: 6/25/33Birthplace: Kosciusko, Miss. James Meredith was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement. In 1962 he became the first Black…Olympia Snowe Biography
Olympia SnoweU.S. congresswoman, senatorBorn: 1947Birthplace: Augusta, Maine Snowe has been a U.S. senator from Maine since 1995. The daughter of Greek immigrants, Olympia Jean Bouchles…Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamer Biography
Fannie Lou (Townsend) Hamercivil rights activistBorn: 10/6/1917Birthplace: Ruleville, Miss. Hamer was the youngest of 20 children and began working with her sharecropper parents at age 6. She left…Olympia Jean SNOWE, Congress, ME (1947)
Senate Years of Service: 1995-2013 Party: Republican SNOWE Olympia Jean , a Senator and a Representative from Maine; born Olympia Jean Boucles, Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, February 21, 1947;…National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(Encyclopedia) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial…King, Martin Luther, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929–68, American clergyman and civil-rights leader, b. Atlanta, Ga., grad. Morehouse College (B.A., 1948), Crozer Theological Seminary (B.D., 1951), Boston…Trending
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