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American civil rights activist (1912–1987)
Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationships with women in the Civil Rights Movement were . Women such as Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Height, Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and Dorothy Cotton were indispensable...
Malcolm X spent much of the 1950s and early 1960s publicly excoriating “white liberals” as dangerous, hypocritical actors in the struggle for Black freedom, and the reporting provided records those su...
Taylor Branch’s multi-volume history frames Martin Luther King Jr. primarily as the movement’s central strategist and moral leader, embedding his personal life within a broader social and political na...
Bayard Rustin engineered the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a gathering of about 250,000 people that became a defining moment of the civil‑rights era . He also planned earlier direct‑a...
Multiple prominent U.S. civil‑rights figures had documented affinities with socialism or Marxist thought, though the record varies on whether they publicly "described themselves" using those exact lab...
Several major U.S. civil‑rights figures had clear, documented connections to socialist or Marxist thought, while others expressed sympathy with economic redistribution without embracing orthodox Marxi...
Prominent civil-rights leaders showed a range of engagements with Marxist and socialist ideas: some (notably Bayard Rustin and others) had explicit socialist/Marxist connections or influences, while m...