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Rosa Parks

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Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955).

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Martin Luther King Jr

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House bombed in 1956, worked with NAACP & SCLC, 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma March.

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Malcolm X

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Civil rights leader advocating for Black self-defense and empowerment.

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Thurgood Marshall

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NAACP lawyer, argued Brown v. Board of Education

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George Wallace

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Governor of Alabama, opposed desegregation

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Bull Connor

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Birmingham police commissioner, known for violent responses to protests. (15 minutes for Freedom Rider Mob)

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Governor Faubus

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Governor of Arkansas, opposed school integration, used National Guard to block the Little Rock Nine (1957).

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President Eisenhower:

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Initially hesitant to intervene in Southern states’ civil rights resistance (Little Rock Nine)

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President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

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